About

About

Sunwoo Yu

School of Undergraduate Studies, College of Transdisciplinary studies
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)

Research Interest

  - Representation Learning
  - Efficient System
  - Bio AI


Personal Data

Phone         +82-10-5762-2205
E-mail         ysw0920@dgist.ac.kr
Major         Computer Science
GPA          3.98/4.3                       Major GPA       4.18/4.3

Education

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) Mar.2020 — Present

School of Undergraduate Studies, College of Transdisciplinary studies
Bachelor Student


University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jun.2023 — Aug.2023

Exchange Program


Work Experience

LG AI Research Jul.2025 — May.2026

  Bio Intelligence Lab, ML Engineer
✓ Handled large-scale datasets (TB-scale), evaluation & inference pipelines

Neuralscent Mar.2024 — Dec.2024

  Co-Founder
✓ Built a radar-based sleep dataset and developed sleep stage detection AI model

Publications

* Equal contributor
  1.  Jong Hyun Kim, Sunwoo Yu, Soonyoung Lee, Tae Hyun Hwang, Jongseong Jang, Janghyeon Lee, “Benchmarking gene expression foundation models on bulk RNA-Seq data”, Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Abstract, Apr. 2026. (expected)
  2.  Juseung Yun, Sunwoo Yu, Sumin Ha, Jonghyun Kim, Janghyeon Lee, Jongseong Jang, Soonyoung Lee, [Technical Report] “EXAONE Path 2.5: Pathology Foundation Model with Multi-Omics Alignment”, Arxiv, Dec. 2025.
  3.  Daewon Kim, Sunwoo Yu, Jaehyeon Lee and Seonghun Lee, “Development of a Driver Monitoring System Using the Capacitive Steering Wheel and FMCW Radar”, The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) Conference (Fall), Nov. 2024.
  4.  Jaehyeon Lee*, Sunwoo Yu*, Daewon Kim, and Kiwon Choi, “Multi-patching: life-log Classification with the Reconstructed Representation of Multivariate Time Series”, The 15th International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC 2024), pp. 798-803, Oct. 2024.

Research Experience

• Undergraduate Group Research Program (UGRP) Feb.2024 — Dec.2024

  at Department of Brain Sciences, DGIST
  ( Prof. Hankyoung Choe, DGIST ABC-DGIST)
✓ Design of a radar dataset collection system for subjects’ sleep in polysomnography experiments
✓ predicting Heart/Respiratory Rate with radar data & predicting sleep stage using representation from HR/RR

• Undergraduate Research Assistant Sep.2023 — Nov.2024

  at Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, DGIST
  ( Prof. Hoonsung Chwa, DGIST RTCL)
✓ PyTorch Camp : Learning how to use pytorch by implementing below paper
  (LaLaRAND: Flexible Layer-by-Layer CPU/GPU Scheduling for Real-Time DNN Tasks)
✓ Project : Real-Time streaming system using foveated rendering
✓ Experience of editing PyTorch & OpenCV source code

Awards and Honors

KFAS 人才林 Scholarship Feb.2025 — Feb.2026

Encouragement Prize, The World Embedded Software Contest 2024, KESSIA Nov.2024

Encouragement Prize, Human Understanding AI Paper Challenge 2024, ETRI Oct.2024

- Director of ETRI(Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) Award

Academic Excellence Award (DGIST) Spring Semester, 2024

Academic Excellence Award (DGIST) Fall Semester, 2023

Academic Excellence Award (DGIST) Spring Semester, 2023


Skills

TEPS:     336/600 valid : Feb.2025 — Feb.2027

Language:   Python, C/C++

Tools:    Git, Docker, PyTorch