Seongryong Jung

I am a research intern at Princeton University. I am also an undergraduate student in Artificial Intelligence at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. My research aims to build capable AI systems that improve through experience. I study how post-training can help models learn from their interactions and continually strengthen their capabilities, while remaining effective and efficient in real-world use.

At Trillion Labs, I worked on foundation-model post-training, with a focus on knowledge distillation and continual learning for large language models. My prior work was nominated for an outstanding paper award at EMNLP.

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Seongryong Jung at EMNLP 2025 Oral

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News

  • Oct. 2026 Started a research internship at Princeton University
  • 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 / bibtex

Experiences

Princeton University Oct. 2026 – Present
  • Research Intern
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
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)

Languages

  • Korean, Native
  • English, CEFR B2
  • Japanese, CEFR B2

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 Oct. 2026 Research Intern Princeton University
Mar. 2023B.S. in AIChung-Ang University
Mar. 2025Research InternDMT Labs / ToDi
Oct. 2025Exchange StudentTokyo Metropolitan University
Nov. 2025EMNLP 2025Outstanding Paper Award Finalist
Mar. 2026Research InternTrillion Labs / Gravity
Oct. 2026Research InternPrinceton University
FutureSelf-Evolving AI