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)
- 윤호, 김재훈, 김재균, 최민석, 남궁영, 박호민, 천민아(공동), 김창현. "자원부족 환경에 적합한 BIT 개체명 표기법". 정보과학회논문지, 48(3), 293–301, 2021.03.
- 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.
- 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.
- 천민아(공동), 김재훈, 박호민, 김창현. "Evaluating and applying deep learning-based multilingual named entity recognition". 한국마린엔지니어링학회지, 42(2), 106–113, 2018.02.
- 서형원, 김재훈, 천민아(공동), 권홍석. "Bilingual Multiword Expression Alignment by Constituent-Based Similarity Score". JIPS, 12(3), 455–467, 2016.12.
- 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.
- 천민아(공동), 임은영, 성경희, 노은희, 김재훈, 서형원. "준지도학습 방법을 이용한 한국어 서답형 문항 반자동 채점". 인지과학, 26(2), 147–165, 2015.06.
국내 학술대회
- 서형원, 김재훈, 천민아(교신). "자기조직화 지도를 이용한 이중언어사전 자동 구축". 한국정보처리학회 춘계학술대회, 2015.04.
- 천민아(제1저자), 임은영, 성경희, 노은희, 김재훈, 서형원. "준지도 학습을 이용한 한국어 서답형 문항 자동 채점 시스템". 제26회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회, 2014.10.
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).