Resume

Min-Ah Cheon, Ph.D.

NLP · Generative AI · LLM Prompt Engineering Researcher.
Inside Director, MetaIntelligence Inc.

Experience

Inside Director
MetaIntelligence Inc. · Computer Science & AI Center
Jan 2024 — Present

Workflow optimization research using LLM prompt engineering.
Global R&D trend analysis and software programming.

Postdoctoral Researcher
Regional Innovation AI Convergence Center, Korea Maritime & Ocean University
Jul 2022 — Dec 2022

1-cycle validation of a fused dataset for indoor positioning.

Adjunct Lecturer
Liberal Arts College, Korea Maritime & Ocean University
Mar 2020 — Feb 2024

Introduction to AI Coding (Python, Machine Learning), Understanding AI, and the C language.

Advisory Committee Member
Game Rating and Administration Committee · Objections Advisory Committee
Apr 2023 — Apr 2025

Expert advisory on objection cases.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
Korea Maritime & Ocean University · GPA 4.5 / 4.5
Mar 2016 — Feb 2021 · Advisor: Prof. Jae-Hoon Kim

Generation of Tagged Corpus Using Relationship Scores of Multiple Generative Units — A Focus on Generation of Named Entity Tagged Corpus

M.S. in Computer Engineering
Korea Maritime & Ocean University · GPA 4.38 / 4.5
Mar 2014 — Feb 2016 · Advisor: Prof. Jae-Hoon Kim

Korean Morphological Analysis and Part-of-Speech Tagger for Applying Korean Automated Scoring of Short-Answer Questions

B.S. in IT Engineering
Korea Maritime & Ocean University · Computer Information Engineering · GPA 4.39 / 4.5
Mar 2010 — Feb 2014

Selected R&D Projects

AI-based Real-time Vision Anomaly Detection System
KISED · Co-researcher
Aug 2025 — Dec 2025

2025 Overseas R&D Investment Trend Analysis
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) · Co-researcher
Jun 2025 — Feb 2026

Data-driven Discovery System for Promising Researchers
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) · Co-researcher
Nov 2023 — Apr 2024

Fused Dataset Construction for Indoor Positioning
National Information Society Agency (NIA) · Co-researcher
Jun 2022 — Dec 2022

Sonar Image Object Recognition via ML
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) · Student Researcher
Apr 2020 — Feb 2021

Multilingual NER for Machine Translation
ETRI Commissioned Projects (3 consecutive) · Student Researcher
2017 — 2019

Korean Short-Answer Automated Scoring
Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE) · Student Researcher
Mar 2014 — Nov 2016

Foundation of three registered patents (3 consecutive projects).

Technical Skills

A stack spanning NLP research, LLM applications, and applied AI.

Languages

Python, C / C++

ML / DL

PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn

NLP

Morphological analysis, POS tagging, NER, corpus construction, automated scoring

Generative AI

LLM Prompt Engineering, generative AI applications

Data Analysis

Python-based analysis & visualization, R&D data analysis

Domestic Publications

국내 학술지(KCI 등재) 7편 · 국내 학술대회 3편

국내 학술지 (KCI 등재)

  1. 윤호, 김재훈, 김재균, 최민석, 남궁영, 박호민, 천민아(공동), 김창현. "자원부족 환경에 적합한 BIT 개체명 표기법". 정보과학회논문지, 48(3), 293–301, 2021.03.
  2. 최민석, 김재훈, 김재균, 남궁영, 윤호, 천민아(공동), 박호민, 김창현. "XGBoost와 교차검증을 이용한 품사부착말뭉치에서의 오류 탐지". 정보처리학회논문지: 소프트웨어 및 데이터 공학, 9(7), 221–228, 2020.07.
  3. 김창현, 김재훈, 김재균, 최민석, 윤호, 박호민, 천민아(공동), 남궁영. "한국어 말덩이 정의와 구묶음: Bi-LSTM/CRFs 모델 활용". 정보과학회논문지, 47(6), 587–595, 2020.06.
  4. 천민아(공동), 김재훈, 박호민, 김창현. "Evaluating and applying deep learning-based multilingual named entity recognition". 한국마린엔지니어링학회지, 42(2), 106–113, 2018.02.
  5. 서형원, 김재훈, 천민아(공동), 권홍석. "Bilingual Multiword Expression Alignment by Constituent-Based Similarity Score". JIPS, 12(3), 455–467, 2016.12.
  6. 천민아(공동), 송미영, 성경희, 노은희, 김재훈, 김창현. "기계학습 분류기의 예측확률과 만장일치를 이용한 한국어 서답형 문항 자동채점 시스템". 정보처리학회논문지: 소프트웨어 및 데이터 공학, 5(11), 527–534, 2016.11.
  7. 천민아(공동), 임은영, 성경희, 노은희, 김재훈, 서형원. "준지도학습 방법을 이용한 한국어 서답형 문항 반자동 채점". 인지과학, 26(2), 147–165, 2015.06.

국내 학술대회

  1. 서형원, 김재훈, 천민아(교신). "자기조직화 지도를 이용한 이중언어사전 자동 구축". 한국정보처리학회 춘계학술대회, 2015.04.
  2. 천민아(제1저자), 임은영, 성경희, 노은희, 김재훈, 서형원. "준지도 학습을 이용한 한국어 서답형 문항 자동 채점 시스템". 제26회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회, 2014.10.
  3. 천민아(제1저자), 성경희, 임은영, 노은희, 김재훈, 서형원. "준지도 학습기반 자동채점시스템에서 채점자가 채점 결과에 미치는 영향". 2015 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 논문집, 2014.06.

International Publications

International Journal (SCOPUS) 1 · International Conferences 3

International Journal (SCOPUS)

  1. Kim J.-H., Cheon M.-A., Kwon H.-S., Seo H.-W. "Learning Bilingual Lexica from Non-parallel Comparable Corpora using Perceptron Learning". International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 10(18), 39501–39508, Sep 2015.

International Conferences

  1. Cheon M.-A. (1st author), Lim E., Sung K., Noh E., Kim J., Seo H. "An Automated Scoring Tool for Korean Supply-Type Items Based on Semi-Supervised Learning". 2nd Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications, ACL-IJCNLP, Jul 2015.
  2. Seo H., Kim J., Cheon M.-A. "Extracting Bilingual Lexica from Comparable Corpora Using Self-Organizing Maps". 8th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, ACL-IJCNLP, Jul 2015.
  3. Kwon H., Kim J., Cheon M.-A. (corresponding), Seo H. "Unsupervised Perceptron Learning for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction with Synonym Vectors". 2015 World Congress on IT Applications and Services, Feb 2015.

Patents

Three registered patents (Applicant: KICE / co-inventor)

  • 10-1713483 · Registered Feb 28, 2017

    METHOD FOR SCORING SUPPLY TYPE ANSWER SHEET

  • 10-1691327 · Registered Dec 23, 2016

    METHOD FOR PROCESSING OF NATURAL LANGUAGE FOR SCORING ANSWER SHEET

  • 10-1680007 · Registered Nov 21, 2016

    METHOD FOR SCORING OF SUPPLY TYPE TEST PAPERS

Awards & Certifications

Recognition and qualifications.

Best Paper Award × 3 — KIISE

Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (Oct 2020, 2019, 2014).

Excellence Award (single recipient)

Korea Maritime & Ocean University (Feb 2014).

Contribution Award — KISTI

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (Sep 2013).

Practical Excellence

Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (Sep 2013).

Letter of Commendation

Busan Jungbu Police Station (Jul 2013) — development of crime-prevention smartphone app.

Engineer Information Processing

HRDK national technical qualification (Nov 2013).