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Inwoo Hwang

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University
📍 New York, New York, United States

Inwoo Hwang is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University, focusing on building trustworthy and interpretable AI systems. His research expertise lies in causal machine learning, explainable AI (XAI), and large language models (LLMs). He earned his Ph. D. from Seoul National University and a Masters degree from KAIST.

Outside of his academic research, Inwoo served his mandatory military service as a Sergeant in the US 8th Armys Korean Augmentation To the United States Army (KATUSA) program. He has expressed interest in connecting with professionals about opportunities in both academia and industry.

Unique fact: He was a finalist for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in Korea and was recognized as an outstanding reviewer at ECCV 2024.

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Experience
3 Years
Current Role
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Causal Inference
His core research as a Postdoc at Columbia University, with multiple recent publications on the topic, including a presentation at NeurIPS 2025.
Explainable AI (XAI)
He connects XAI with causal inference in his work, aiming to build more interpretable models, as highlighted in his paper "From Black-box to Causal-box".
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Columbia University
10-2024 - 2-2025
Visiting Scholar
Columbia University
9-2021 - 5-2022
Research Collaborator
NAVER Corp
8-2012 - 5-2014
Sergeant
US 8th Army Korean Augmentation To the United States Army
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Education
3-2019 - 2-2025
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Seoul National University
3-2016 - 2-2018
Master's degree
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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