Minchan Jeong

Ph.D. in AI (expected Aug 2026), Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST
Advisor: Se-Young Yun · Expected graduation: 2026-08

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I'm finishing my PhD at KAIST, advised by Se-Young Yun (Thesis: Operator Spectral Estimation Beyond IID Data). I build neural methods that recover an operator's leading spectrum with provable guarantees, for analyzing stochastic dynamical systems and for computing the excited states of quantum many-body systems. Two results anchor this: a parametric SVD of the Koopman operator (NeurIPS 2025) and low-rank variational Monte Carlo for quantum excited states (NestedLoRA-VMC), both with Jon Ryu.

Earlier I led a mid-term precipitation post-processing ML model on a terabyte-scale data pipeline (2022 – Spring 2023), then built the JAX inference engine behind an operational GraphCast deployment at KMA (Fall 2023 – 2024). I'm drawn to problems where the mathematics and the systems both have to be right.

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Selected publications

  1. Variational Monte Carlo for Quantum Excited States via Nested Low-Rank Approximation
    M. Jeong*, J. J. Ryu*, S.-Y. Yun, G. W. Wornell
    2026 . Manuscript under review, 2026.
    quantumspectral
  2. From Belief Entrenchment to Robust Reasoning in LLM Agents
    J. Oh*, M. Jeong*, J. Ko, S.-Y. Yun
    2026 . To appear in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).
    llm
  3. Efficient Parametric SVD of Koopman Operator for Stochastic Dynamical Systems
    M. Jeong*, J. J. Ryu*, S.-Y. Yun, G. W. Wornell
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025, pp. 25564–25600
    spectral
  4. Robust Streaming PCA
    D. Bienstock*, M. Jeong*, A. Shukla*, S.-Y. Yun*
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022, pp. 4231–4243
    spectral
  5. Preservation of the Global Knowledge by Not-True Distillation in Federated Learning
    G. Lee*, M. Jeong*, Y. Shin, S. Bae, S.-Y. Yun
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022, pp. 38461–38474
    federated learning

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