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General Information

Name Na Min An
Vision Accomplished researcher committed to making the world a better place with artificial intelligence. Demonstrates both theoretical and practical knowledge of mathematics for developing human-interpretable vision and language models. Dedicated to personal development by working autonomously and aiming for successful team achievements.

Education

  • 2023
    MS/PhD Candidate
    Kim Jaechul Graduate School, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
    • Joined Professor Thorne’s explainable factual reasoning lab in Spring 2023.
  • 2022
    BS
    Department of Mathematics, University of Seoul
    • Graduated with 1st class honors in the Mathematics department (GPA - 4.29/4.5).
    • Received academic excellence or mayor's scholarship for every semester.

Experience

  • 2021 - 2022
    Research Intern
    Brain Science Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    • Compared the recognition ability of machines and humans under low-resolution data.
    • Built a reinforcement learning-based framework to stimulate human psychophysical tests of prosthetic vision.
    • Designed an automatic image processing system for detecting edges of fluorescene images and hyperpolarization phenomenon.
  • 2020
    Research Intern
    Department of Mathematics, University of Seoul
    • Classified progressive stages of pulmonary nodules using variations of convolutional and recurrent neural networks.
    • Predicted increasing rates of subscribers for ~1k food-related YouTube channels.
  • 2020
    Project Leader
    Department of Statistics, University of Seoul
    • Analyzed the risk factors of Covid-19 for each district of Seoul.
    • Received the team excellence award and 3rd place (out of > 40) in the big data competition.
  • 2017 - 2020
    Mentor/Teacher
    Multiple Affiliations
    • Assisted MUAP (Master of Urban Administration and Planning) graduate school students adapt to new environments under the title of Seoul Friends (09/2020 – 12/2020).
    • Participated in 16 hours of Dongdaemun District Mentoring Program to enhance English/math skills for middle/ high school students, respectively (1/2020 – 2/2020, 9/2019 – 12/2019).
    • Worked in Haebub Math Academy to help elementary to high school students solve challenging math problems three times a week (07/2019 – 08/2019).
    • Tour guided foreigners in Seoul and helped various programs hosted by Funday Korea Networks to run smoothly (03/2019 – 03/2020).
    • Spread Korean culture (e.g., Tae-Kwon-do) and built wells near the primary school for Cambodians with World Share staff members (07/11/2018 – 07/20/2018).
    • Volunteered to read English books to Seoul Sanghyeon Elementary School students every week for 40 hours of after-school program (03/2017 – 06/2017).

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Pilates 🧘🏻‍♀️ and Tennis 🎾