Sujeong Im

Sujeong Im

Ph.D. Student in AI, KAIST

About

I am a Ph.D. student in AI at KAIST, advised by Edward Choi. My research focuses on applying machine learning to healthcare, with a particular interest in clinical NLP, model evaluation & benchmarking, persona agents, and reward modeling. I developed LabTOP, a unified model for lab test outcome prediction on electronic health records, which received the Best Paper Award at CHIL 2025.

Medical AI Model Evaluation & Benchmarking Natural Language Processing Persona Agents Reward Modeling

Publications

* Equal contribution, † Corresponding author

PICon: A Multi-Turn Interrogation Framework for Evaluating Persona Agent Consistency
Minseo Kim*, Sujeong Im*, Junseong Choi, Junhee Lee, Chaeeun Shim, Edward Choi†
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.25620, 2026
LabTOP: A Unified Model for Lab Test Outcome Prediction on Electronic Health Records
Sujeong Im*, Jungwoo Oh*, Edward Choi†
Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL), 2025
Best Paper (Applications & Practice)
Publicly Shareable Clinical Large Language Model Built on Synthetic Clinical Notes
Sunjun Kweon*, Junu Kim*, Jiyoun Kim, Sujeong Im, Eunbyeol Cho, Seongsu Bae, Jungwoo Oh, Gyubok Lee, Jong Hak Moon, Seng Chan You, Seungjin Baek, Chang Hoon Han, Yoon Bin Jung, Yohan Jo, Edward Choi†
Findings of ACL, 2024
Asclepius-R: Clinical Large Language Model Built On MIMIC-III Discharge Summaries
Sunjun Kweon*, Junu Kim*, Jiyoun Kim, Sujeong Im, Eunbyeol Cho, Seongsu Bae, Jungwoo Oh, Gyubok Lee, Jong Hak Moon, Seng Chan You, Seungjin Baek, Chang Hoon Han, Yoon Bin Jung, Yohan Jo, Edward Choi†
PhysioNet, 2024
Clinical Decision Transformer: Intended Treatment Recommendation through Goal Prompting
Seunghyun Lee*, Da Young Lee*, Sujeong Im, Nan Hee Kim, Sung-Min Park†
arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.00612, 2023

Honors & Awards

2025
Best Paper Award (Applications & Practice), CHIL 2025, Berkeley, CA, USA

Invited Talks & Lectures

2026.08
LLM Theory & Fine-tuning a Clinical Domain LLM, KoSAIM 2026
2026.01
Large Language Model Hands-on Session, KSR AIMC 5th
2025.10
AI Practical Training for Developers, KoSAIM 2025
2025.01
Large Language Model Hands-on Session, KSR AIMC 4th
2024.11
Advanced Medical AI Training for Developers II, KoSAIM 2024
2024.08
Large Language Model Hands-on Session, KoSAIM 2024 Summer School

Work Experience

LG AI Research — AI Research Intern
Seoul, Korea
  • Built an end-to-end data pipeline for Korean instruction-following alignment, spanning given-document SFT, preference optimization (DPO), and evaluation
  • Designed an RLVR (Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards) preference dataset, defining verification functions as reward signals to judge constraint satisfaction
  • Mitigated reward hacking by redesigning constraints and verification functions, and implemented an automated data-construction framework with difficulty calibration and LLM-as-judge filtering
  • Built a Korean instruction-following evaluation benchmark to quantitatively measure constraint-adherence performance
AIforPet — AI Research Intern
Seoul, Korea
  • Implemented dog tracking and background removal using OpenCV to preprocess walking video data
  • Applied pose estimation models to canine gait videos and conducted comparative evaluation
  • Built a data annotation pipeline using DeepLabCut; automated dog cropping with OpenCV and Darknet
  • Led pilot tagging sessions and defined consistent annotation guidelines

Education

KAIST — Ph.D. in AI
Advisor: Edward Choi
KAIST — M.S. in AI
Advisor: Edward Choi
Thesis: LabTOP — A Unified Model for Lab Test Outcome Prediction on Electronic Health Records
POSTECH — B.S. in IT Engineering
Exchange Student at University of California, Berkeley (Aug 2018 – Jan 2019)

Activities

KAIST AI Lab (Edward Choi's Lab) — Lab Representative
  • Established and scaled a structured lab seminar program, and authored the lab's first operations guide to standardize onboarding and workflows
  • Designed and implemented a centralized research resource tracking system, improving documentation quality and reproducibility across projects
APGC-Lab (POSTECH) — Manager
  • Led overall operations and planned the startup hackathon "Random Talk Show"
  • Led speaker outreach for semester-long entrepreneurship community program
Educational Outreach, POSTECH — Mentor & Staff
  • Mentor for POSTECH Creative Camp for high school students (2018, 2019, 2021)
  • Taught App Inventor at Gachibaeum Winter Science Camp (2020)