Kai Tzu-iunn Ong

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Hello. I am Kai, from Taiwan. I am a Ph.D. candidate in AI (advised by prof. Jinyoung Yeo). ​​Before AI & CS, I’d studied mechanical engineering at National Taiwan University (B05) and Yonsei University. I am enthralled by the idea of building AI systems that are not merely convenient tools to replace human effort, but reliable partners that, together with humans, co-evolve and create greater societal value. Consequently, my current research interest lies in the intersection of:

  • Dialogue Agents / Interactive Systems1
  • Human-centred AI2
  • AI for Science and Social Good (e.g., healthcare)3,4

As a man thinketh, so is he.


Publication Spotlight

* = Co-first authorship. The full publication list is here.
  1. New Success and Failure of Human–AI Collaboration in Clinical Reasoning: An Experimental Study on Challenging Real-world Cases
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Junwon Seo*, Hyojun Kim, Jiwoo Kim, and 4 more authors
    International Journal of Medical Informatics 2026 (Q1)
    [PDF]
  2. Towards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Timeline-based Memory Management
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Namyoung Kim*, Minju Gwak, Hyungjoo Chae, and 5 more authors
    NAACL 2025  Oral Presentation 
    [PDF]
  3. Large Language Models Are Clinical Reasoners: Reasoning-aware Diagnosis Framework with Prompt-generated Rationales
    Taeyoon Kwon*, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Dongjin Kang, Seungjun Moon, and 6 more authors
    AAAI 2024
    [PDF]
  4. Evidence-empowered Transfer Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Hana Kim, Minjin Kim, Jinseong Jang, and 5 more authors
    IEEE ISBI 2023  Oral Presentation 
    [PDF] [Video]

Academic Experience

Yonsei University 2022 - Expected 2027
Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence
Took a sememster off (25 Fall) for Taiwan's mandatory military service.

Yonsei University 2018 - 2022
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

National Taiwan University 2016 - 2018 (Voluntarily Ceased)
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

Spoken Languages

Native:
Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien

Full professional proficiency (C1+):
English (Toeic 980), Korean (Topik 6)

Basic conversational ability (A1-2):
Spanish, Japanese

Casually learning a few words here and there (A0):
Thai

Activities

Program reviewer (including non-official): AAAI (2023, 2024, 2025), ACL (2023, 2024, 2025), EMNLP (2023, 2024, 2025), ​EACL (2024)

Co-organiser: Multi-Camera Robust Classification of Fundus Diseases (MuCaRD) Challenge, MICCAI 2025

Teaching (TA):

  • Introduction to AI (AAI2250), Yonsei university (Fall, 2024)
  • NLP (AAI3301), Yonsei university (Spring, 2024)
  • AI expert program, Samsung, Korea (Jul, 2023 & Fall, 2024)
  • Big data (CSI4121), Yonsei university (Spring, 2023)

Mentoring:

  • Seung Woo Baek (Spring 2025): Paper accepted to KIISE Special Issue (Feb 2025).
  • Taeyoon Kwon (Fall, 2023): Papers accepted to AAAI 2024 and IOVS 2024.

Conference Attendance

Upcoming:  N/A

Past: NAACL 2025 (USA), ACL 2024 (Thailand), EMNLP 2023 (Singapore), IEEE ISBI 2023 (Colombia), Coling 2022 (Korea)

Interest

I enjoy weight training, martial arts, and learning languages.