Sangwoo Hong

About Me

I have been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Konkuk University since 2025. Homepage

I received my bachelor’s degree in 2020 and my Ph.D. in 2024, both from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University.

Research Interests

My Research interest lies in constructing Trustworthy AI, focusing on key aspects such as

• Privacy
  • Data Privacy, Privacy-preserving Generative Models
• Security
  • Verifiable Computing, Finding and Mitigating Adversarial Attacks
• Fairness
  • Max-Min Fairness, Counterfactual Fairness
• Reliability
  • Distributed Computing, Network Pruning
• Explainability
  • Explainable AI

News

• [April. 2026] Prof. Hong will serve as an Area Chair (AC) for NeurIPS 2026.
• [April. 2026] Our paper about Efficient Large Language Model has been accepted to ACL 2026.
• [April. 2026] Our paper about Fair and Efficient Model has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
• [Mar. 2026] Our team has been selected to lead the ‘Verifiable Privacy-Preserving Machine Unlearning’ project.
• [Mar. 2026] Our paper about Efficient Fidelity Estimation for Quantum State has been accepted to Phyiscal Review A.
• [Mar. 2026] Our paper about Communication using AI has been accepted to IEEE Wireless Communication Letters.
• [Feb. 2026] Our paper about Efficient VLA Pretraining has been released on arXiv.
• [Jan. 2026] Prof. Hong delivered an invited talk on XAI at the Sejong University.
• [Jan. 2026] Our Lab introduce a GPU server equipped with 2 X NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPU. (198GB VRAM)
• [Jan. 2026] Prof. Hong delivered an invited talk on generative AI and privacy at the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
• [Nov. 2025] Our Lab have established a partnership with Theta Labs by signing an MOU.
• [Nov. 2025] Our paper about Reliable Data generation in Generative AI has been accepted to AAAI 2026. (Oral Presentation)
• [Sep. 2025] Our paper about Enhancing Data Privacy in Generative AI has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
• [Aug. 2025] Our team has been selected to lead the ‘Coded Parallel Tensor Network Contraction for Robust and Efficient Quantum Circuit Simulation’ project, as part of the Grant for Outstanding Early-Career Researchers.
• [Aug. 2025] Our team at Konkuk University has been selected for the Research Group Fostering Program.
• [Feb. 2025] Our paper about Explainable AI has been accepted to AAAI 2025.
• [Dec. 2024] Our paper about Fair AI has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
• [Dec. 2024] Our paper about 3D Surface Reconstruction has been accepted to ACCV 2024.
• [Mar. 2024] Our paper about Defending Adversarial Attack has been accepted to TIFS 2024.

Publications

Services

Area Chair (AC) and Program Committee (PC)

• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), AC
• Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), PC

Journal Reviewers

Conference Reviewers

• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
• IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
• IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Journal Reviewers

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
• IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)

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