Wongyu Kim

Wongyu Kim 김원규

Researcher & Engineer, Chatbot Service Division
NC AI · Seoul, Korea

I'm a researcher and engineer at NC AI, and previously worked as a researcher and engineer at NC. My research centers on domain-specialized AI agents that can reliably carry out complex tasks in real-world settings. What draws me most are the core modules that make such agents actually work — harness engineering, orchestration, memory, retrieval, and multi-agent coordination — and the question of how to weave them into a single coherent system. Recently, I've begun working on physical foundation models and the engineering systems around them. By combining my prior experience in agentic systems with this work on physical models, I aim to build an agentic robot framework that grounds these capabilities in physical interaction.

Before I worked at NC and NC AI, I received my M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Yonsei University, advised by Prof. Kyong-Ho Lee, and my B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Kyunghee University.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to talk about any of this.

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Education

09/2020 – 08/2022
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence
03/2016 – 08/2020
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

Experience

02/2025 – Present
NC AI — Researcher & Engineer
09/2022 – 01/2025
NC — Researcher & Engineer
02/2019 – 07/2019
KIST Europe — Research Intern

Publications

Preprints & In Progress

Robust Memory in Multi-Agent
Wongyu Kim
In progress, 2027

Conference Papers

Donghyun Kim, Youbin Ahn, Wongyu Kim, Chanhee Lee, Kyungchan Lee, Kyong-Ho Lee, Jeonguk Kim, Donghoon Shin, Yeonsoo Lee
EACL 2023
Donghyun Kim, Youbin Ahn, Chanhee Lee, Wongyu Kim, Kyong-Ho Lee, Donghoon Shin, Yeonsoo Lee
EACL 2023

Workshop Papers

Wongyu Kim, Hochang Lee, Sanghak Lee, Yoonsung Kim, Jaehyun Park
MMGenSR Workshop, CIKM 2025

Journal Papers

Chanhee Lee, Donghyun Kim, Wongyu Kim, Kyungchan Lee, Youbin Ahn, Kyong-Ho Lee, Donghoon Shin, Yeonsoo Lee
Expert Systems with Applications, 2025

Projects

04/2026 – Present
Memory Technology for Agentic Harness across Customer Service Agents (NCCX, internal service)
03/2025 – Present
Multimodal Embedding Model for NCER User Problem-solving Pipelines
09/2024 – Present
Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR) Text Embedding Model for Conversational Game Chatbots and Agents (NCER)
01/2024 – 09/2024
Sparse Passage Retrieval (SPR) Text Embedding Model for In-house Chatbot
09/2022 – 06/2023
Clustering Model for AI-driven Private Banking
07/2021 – 12/2021
Improving Dialogue Quality via Persona Expansion and Combination using Knowledge Graphs
12/2020 – 05/2021
Improving Dialogue Quality via Persona Expansion and Combination using Knowledge Graphs

Honors & Awards

Travel Grant
Google East Asia Student Travel Grants
Scholarship
Academic Excellence (Undergraduate GPA Honors)
1st Prize
LG Display & Yonsei University AI Competition (Few-shot Incremental Learning)
3rd Prize
KHU Hackathon sponsored by Naver D2 (Automatic Video Editor)
2nd Prize
KHU Hackathon sponsored by Naver D2 (Job Recommender System)