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Seongryong Jung

I am an undergraduate student in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.

I have had research experience at Trillion Labs and DMT Labs, where both experiences centered on training models with awareness of their current state of knowledge, through continual learning across multiple domains at Trillion Labs and knowledge distillation at DMT Labs.

My long-term goal is to build self-evolving AI systems that can autonomously and continuously improve themselves. I am particularly drawn to post-training methods that adapt to a model's current state, as a stepping stone toward AI that can guide and improve its own learning.

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News

  • May. 2026 Awarded a research grant for the Knowledge Distillation for Self-Evolving AI project (2026 - 2027)
  • Mar. 2026 Started a research internship at Trillion Labs (Mar. 2026 - Jun. 2026)
  • Dec. 2025 Gave an invited talk, Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models, at KSC 2025
  • Nov. 2025 ToDi was selected as an Outstanding Paper Award Finalist at EMNLP 2025 (top 0.9%)
  • Oct. 2025 Started as an exchange student at Tokyo Metropolitan University (Oct. 2025 - Mar. 2026)
  • Aug. 2025 ToDi was accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Oral)

Publications
ToDi ToDi: Token-wise Distillation via Fine-Grained Divergence Control
Seongryong Jung, Suwan Yoon, DongGeon Kim, Hwanhee Lee
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)
Oral Presentation / Outstanding Paper Award Finalist (top 0.9%)
project / paper / arXiv / code

Experiences

Trillion Labs Mar. 2026 – Jun. 2026
Seoul, Korea
  • Research Intern
  • Worked on continual learning and agentic distillation for foundation model post-training. (Gravity)
DMT Labs Mar. 2025 – Jun. 2025
Seoul, Korea
  • Research Intern
  • Designed a novel post-training distillation method for large language models. (ToDi)

Education

Chung-Ang University Mar. 2023 – Present
Seoul, Korea
  • B.S. in Artificial Intelligence
  • GPA: 4.34 / 4.50  ·  Class rank: 1 / 36
Tokyo Metropolitan University Oct. 2025 – Mar. 2026
Tokyo, Japan
  • Exchange Student, Faculty of Systems Design

Awards & Honors

  • Research Grant, Knowledge Distillation for Self-Evolving AI (2026)
  • Software College Dean's Award, 2025 CAU Engineering Academic Festival (2025)
  • Outstanding Paper Award Finalist, EMNLP 2025 (2025)
  • IITP President's Award, 2025 ICT Internship Outstanding Achievement Awards (2025)
  • Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Scholarship (2025)

Trajectory

Self-Evolving AI ··· Mar. 2023 B.S. in AI Chung-Ang University Mar. 2025 Research Intern DMT Labs · ToDi Oct. 2025 Exchange Student Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. Nov. 2025 EMNLP 2025 Outstanding Paper Award Finalist Mar. 2026 Research Intern Trillion Labs · Gravity