publications

Cumulative Publications at Top Venues (C + Q1 J) by Year

CLICK to show published first-author papers (N = 7)

The asterisk (*) indicates co-first authorship.

2026

  1. New Clean Reactions from Noisy Patents: LLM Extraction and Rare-Template Denoising for Reaction Data Curation
    Chaewon Lee*, Shuan Chen*, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Jinyoung Yeo, and 2 more authors
    Digital Discovery 2026 (Q1; IF = 7.10​)
  2. New Towards Direct Evaluation of Harness Optimizers via Priority Ranking
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Minseok Kang*, Dongwook Choi*, Junhee Cho, and 8 more authors
    NeurIPS 2026
    [PDF]
  3. New Apples on the Table? Evaluating Text-guided 3D Scene Synthesis via Fine-grained Constraint Verification
    Minseok Kang*, Dongwook Choi*, Gyeom Hwangbo*, Seungwon Lim, and 2 more authors
    EMNLP 2026 (Acceptance = 15.4%)
    [PDF]
  4. 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) 🎉 Best Poster Award
    [PDF]
  5. On Reliable Human-AI Collaboration: The Impact of Clinician-expressed Confidence on LLMs’ Behavior
    Jaehoon Kim*, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Juhyun Park, Hyejun Cha, and 4 more authors
    under review 2026
  6. Knowing When to Agree, Defer, or Disagree: Evaluating Large Language Models in Clinical Collaboration
    Jiyoon Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Juhyun Park, Minwoo Oh, and 4 more authors
    under review 2026
  7. Structured Reasoning Prompts Improve Clinician–AI Collaboration: A Controlled Simulation Study
    Hyejun Cha, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Juhyun Park, Jiyoon Kim, and 4 more authors
    under review 2026

2025

  1. PRINCIPLES: Synthetic Strategy Memory for Proactive Dialogue Agents
    Namyoung Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Yeonjun Hwang, Minseok Kang, and 4 more authors
    EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
    [PDF]
  2. Age-Related Scattered Hypofluorescent Spots as an Adverse Prognostic Factor for Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy​
    Seo Hee Kim*, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Seonghee Choi, Eun Jee Chung, and 4 more authors
    Ophthalmology Science 2025 (Q1)
    [PDF]
  3. 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]
  4. Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation
    Hyungjoo Chae, Namyoung Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Minju Gwak, and 5 more authors
    ICLR 2025
    [PDF]
  5. Evidence-guided Transfer Learning to Overcome Data limitations in Optical Coherence Tomography-based Retinal Detachment Differentiation
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Tae Keun Yoo, Jung Dong Kim, Min Kim, and 3 more authors
    under review 2025

2024

  1. Coffee-gym: An Environment for Evaluating and Improving Natural Language Feedback on Erroneous Code
    Hyungjoo Chae, Taeyoon Kwon, Seungjun Moon, Yongho Song, and 6 more authors
    EMNLP 2024
    [PDF]
  2. Language Models as Compilers: Simulating Pseudocode Execution Improves Algorithmic Reasoning in Language Models
    Hyungjoo Chae, Yeonghyeon Kim, Seungone Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, and 7 more authors
    EMNLP 2024 (Selected by AK Daily Papers)
    [PDF]
  3. Commonsense-augmented Memory Construction and Management in Long-term Conversations via Context-aware Persona Refinement
    Hana Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Seoyeon Kim, Dongha Lee, and 1 more author
    EACL 2024 🎉 Oral Presentation (Conceptualized and wrote the whole paper)
    [PDF]
  4. Multitask Deep Learning for Joint Detection of Necrotizing Viral and Noninfectious Retinitis from Common Blood and Serology Test Data
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Taeyoon Kwon*, Harok Jang, Min Kim, and 5 more authors
    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2024 (Q1; IF = 5.0)
    [PDF]
  5. 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]
  6. Large Language Models Are Self-Taught Reasoners: Enhancing LLM Applications via Tailored Problem-Solving Demonstrations
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Taeyoon Kwon, and Jinyoung Yeo
    preprint 2024

2023

  1. Dialogue Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Commonsense-aware Conversational Agents
    Hyungjoo Chae, Yongho Song, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Taeyoon Kwon, and 5 more authors
    EMNLP 2023
    [PDF]
  2. Natural Language Processing to Predict Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Genotype in Diffuse Glioma Using MR Radiology Reports
    Minjae Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Seonah Choi, Jinyoung Yeo, and 9 more authors
    European Radiology 2023 (Q1; IF = 7.03​)
    [PDF]
  3. 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]