Yong Ki Lee

AI service developer at SK Telecom

I turn complex data into actionable insights through LLM integrations and optimized data pipelines.

Build full-stack services and analyze data to solve business problems, from concept to scalable production.
Choose technology for user value, operational efficiency, and practical impact.

Career

2023 — present

SK Telecom

AI Service Developer

Service planning, backend architecture, and development for Marketing AX Workspace.
Service planning, backend architecture, and development for Polaris Studio.
AI and backend engineering for SmartBee, a RAG chatbot service with an embeddable widget.
Backend engineering for customer conversation search (상담 검색 서비스).

Sep 2023 — present

Marketing AX Workspace

A conversational workspace for accessing business data and services through natural-language requests.

Polaris Studio

A no-code AI workflow service for working with internal data and automating repetitive tasks.

SmartBee

A RAG chatbot service with an embeddable widget that lets teams add document-based Q&A to existing websites.

상담 검색 서비스 (Customer conversation insights)

Backend engineering for SK Telecom’s AI-based customer conversation search service.

2020 — 2023

빌리뷰

Co-founder & CTO

Review topic classification and REVIEWRO backend development.

Sep 2020 — Apr 2023

REVIEWRO

Backend development for REVIEWRO, a review-based fashion commerce app. The service closed in February 2023.

Review topic analytics

Review topic classification for e-commerce at 빌리뷰.

2016 — 2020

SK Telecom

Data Scientist → Backend Developer

Data science for personalized targeting and network quality.
Backend development for personalized targeting and AIAS.

Apr 2016 — Aug 2020

AIAS: network quality analytics

Backend development for AIAS, a map-based telecom network quality service.

Personalized targeting

Data modeling and backend development for personalized targeting at SK Telecom.

2014 — 2016

Hyundai Motor Company

Data Scientist

Vehicle sensor-data engineering and diagnostic trouble-code analysis.

Dec 2014 — Mar 2016

2010 — 2014

LG Electronics

Software Engineer · Smart TV Lab

Smart TV search services and electronic program guide data processing.

Mar 2010 — Nov 2014

2009 — 2010

Tmaxsoft

Software Engineer · WAS Lab

Servlet/JSP engine development and class-loading work for JEUS.

Jan 2009 — Mar 2010

Research & Education

2007 — 2009

M.S. in Industrial Engineering

Seoul National University

Information Management Lab · Advisor: Jonghun Park.

Thesis: Tag-based Object Similarity Computation Using Term Space Dimension Reduction

2003 — 2007

B.S. in Industrial Engineering

Seoul National University

2011

Online Video Recommendation Through Tag-Cloud Aggregation

Jonghun Park, Sang-Jin Lee, Sung-Jun Lee, Kwanho Kim, Beom-Suk Chung, and Yong-Ki Lee

IEEE MultiMedia · Volume 18, Issue 1

BibTeX

@article{park2011tagcloud,
  title={Online Video Recommendation Through Tag-Cloud Aggregation},
  author={Park, Jonghun and Lee, Sang-Jin and Lee, Sung-Jun and Kim, Kwanho and Chung, Beom-Suk and Lee, Yong-Ki},
  journal={IEEE MultiMedia},
  volume={18}, number={1}, year={2011},
  doi={10.1109/MMUL.2010.6}
}

2009

Tag-based Object Similarity Computation Using Term Space Dimension Reduction

Yong Ki Lee, Sung Jun Lee, and Jonghun Park

SIGIR ’09 · 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference

BibTeX

@inproceedings{lee2009tagbased,
  title={Tag-based Object Similarity Computation Using Term Space Dimension Reduction},
  author={Lee, Yong Ki and Lee, Sung Jun and Park, Jonghun},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference},
  year={2009}, doi={10.1145/1571941.1572130}
}