Personal statement

I am a 4th-year PhD student in CSE at UC San Diego, advised by Loris D'Antoni. My research focuses on program synthesis and constrained decoding of Large Language Models. I am also interested in program analysis, formal verification and security.

Outside of work, I enjoy playing acoustic guitar.


Education & Certification

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering

UC San Diego (Transferred from UW-Madison)

Sep 2024 - Current

MS in Computer Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aug 2021 - May 2024

BS in Computer Science and Mathematics

Pohang University of Science and Technology

Summa Cum Laude, Engineering's Valedictorian

Feb 2015 - Feb 2021



Job Experiences

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon Web Services

Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon Web Services

May 2023 - Sep 2023

Malware Analyst, Security Personnel

ROK Army Headquarter (Obligatory Military Service)

Aug 2018 - Mar 2020


Publications

LOUD: Synthesizing Strongest and Weakest Specifications [arXiv][Github]

Kanghee Park*, Xuanyu Peng*, Loris D'Antoni
*equal contribution


Preprint

Grammar-Aligned Decoding [arXiv] [Github]

Kanghee Park*, Jiayu Wang*, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatric, Nadia Polikarpova, Loris D'Antoni
*equal contribution


NeurIPS 2024

Modular System Synthesis [arXiv]

Kanghee Park, Keith J.C. Johnson, Loris D'Antoni, Thomas Reps


FMCAD 2023

Synthesizing Specifications [arXiv] [Github]

Kanghee Park, Loris D'Antoni, Thomas Reps


OOPSLA 2023


Teaching

TA for CS513 (Numerical Linear Algebra)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2022 Spring


TA for CS240 (Discrete Mathematics)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2021 Fall