Sohyun An

Sohyun An

CS Ph.D. student at UCLA

UCLA CS

Biography

I’m a Ph.D. student in the Computational Machine Learning Group at UCLA, under the supervision of Prof. Cho-Jui Hsieh. Previously, I was an M.S. student in the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Lab at KAIST AI, supervised by Prof. Sung Ju Hwang.

Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, Sep 2024 - Present

    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

  • MS in Artificial Intelligence, Aug 2022 - Aug 2024

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

  • BS in Material Science and Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), Mar 2017 - Aug 2021

    Seoul National University (SNU)

Publications

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(2026). A Unifying Lens on Supervised Fine-Tuning Through Target Distribution Design. arXiv.

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(2026). Cycle-Consistent Search: Question Reconstructability as a Proxy Reward for Search Agent Training. arXiv.

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(2026). FRESCO: Benchmarking and Optimizing Re-rankers for Evolving Semantic Conflict in Retrieval-Augmented Generation. arXiv.

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(2026). T-MAP: Red-Teaming LLM Agents with Trajectory-aware Evolutionary Search. arXiv.

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(2025). DialectGen: Benchmarking and Improving Dialect Robustness in Multimodal Generation. ResponsibleFM @ NeurIPS 2025.

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Scientist Intern
June 2025 – September 2025 Birlingame, CA
 
 
 
 
 
Research Scientist Intern
June 2025 – September 2025 Menlo Park, CA
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern
April 2022 – August 2022 South Korea
 
 
 
 
 
Full-time Engineer
August 2021 – March 2022 South Korea
 
 
 
 
 
Undergraduate Student Researcher
January 2020 – September 2020 South Korea
 
 
 
 
 
Engineer Intern
June 2019 – August 2019 South Korea

TA Experience

 
 
 
 
 
TA for CS31 Introduction to Computer Science
March 2026 – June 2026 Los Angeles, CA
 
 
 
 
 
TA for CSM146 Introduction to Machine Learning
January 2026 – March 2026 Los Angeles, CA
 
 
 
 
 
SNS TA
September 2023 – December 2023 South Korea
 
 
 
 
 
TA for AI618 Generative Model and Unsupervised Learning
March 2023 – June 2023 South Korea

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