Wonduk Seo

Wonduk Seo

PhD student in Computer Science, University College London
London, United Kingdom wonduk.seo.26@ucl.ac.uk
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About Me

I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at University College London, where I’m a member of the UCL NLP Group and work with Prof. Emine Yilmaz. My research focuses on evaluating and improving language models’ reasoning, use of evidence, and alignment with human values. Previously, I was an undergraduate student at Peking University, where I was advised by Prof. Yi Bu. My first-author work has appeared at ICML, ACL, WSDM, SIGIR-ICTIR, ICPR, and BigData.

Education

University College London
London, United Kingdom
Oct. 2026 - Present
PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Prof. Emine Yilmaz
Four-year fully funded PhD studentship, funded by Amazon
Peking University
Beijing, China
Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2025
Bachelor in Information Management, Data Science
Advisor: Prof. Yi Bu

Research Interests

Publications

* Equal contribution   † Corresponding author

Accepted papers 11

Working Papers 1

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News

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  • [Dec. 2025]
    One first author paper got accepted to ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) !
  • [Nov. 2025]
    One co-first author paper got accepted to ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).
  • [Oct. 2025]
    One co-first author paper got accepted to IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2025 Industry Track for Oral Presentation.
  • [Jul. 2025]
    One first author paper got accepted to AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) Main Track.
  • [Jul. 2025]
    Graduated from Peking University (Bachelor in Information Management, Data Science)!
  • [Jun. 2025]
    One first author paper accepted for Oral Presentation at the ACM SIGKDD 2025 Workshop on AI Agent for Information Retrieval.
  • [Apr. 2025]
    One co-first author paper got accepted to IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) for Oral Presentation.
  • [Apr. 2025]
    Gave a poster talk at the International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB).
  • [Feb. 2025]
    One first author paper accepted by Quantitative Science Studies (QSS).
  • [Jan. 2025]
    Concluded my role as an LLM researcher at Baidu Inc..
  • [Nov. 2024]
    Ranked 9th in the ACM'24 FinanceRAG Challenge as Team Leader.
  • [May 2024]
    Earned a bronze medal in Kaggle’s Enefit Predict Energy Behavior of Prosumers (Solo).
  • [Apr. 2024]
    Earned a bronze medal in Kaggle’s Harvard Medical School Brain Activity Classification (Team Leader).
  • [Feb. 2024]
    Wrapped up my role as a Machine Learning Engineer at Enhans AI to pursue research-focused opportunities.
  • [Dec. 2023]
    Earned a silver medal in Kaggle’s CAFA 5 Protein Function Prediction (Solo).
  • [Oct. 2023]
    Earned a bronze medal in Kaggle’s LLM Science Exam (Team).
  • [Aug. 2023]
    Completed my Data Scientist internship at LG Chem.
  • [Apr. 2023]
    Completed a Data Scientist internship at BetaBrain.
  • [Apr. 2022]
    Began a long-term collaboration with Prof. Yi Bu.
  • [Dec. 2020]
    Began my AI journey, diving into machine learning research and engineering.

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Language Proficiency

  • Korean: Native proficiency
  • Chinese: Full professional proficiency (HSK 6 obtained in 2018, score 254/300)
  • English: Full professional proficiency (TOEFL obtained in 2026, score 100/120)