Achievements

Grants & Awards

Outstanding Paper Award, KDD 2026 RelSciFM Workshop
August 2026

• For “Trustworthy Protein–Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction via Reliability-Aware Multi-Engine Fusion.”

NVIDIA Academic Grant
January 2026 – Present

• Awarded for fine-tuning co-folding foundation models (Boltz-2).

Presentations

PRETZEL: A Benchmark for Cyclic Peptide Structure Prediction
Hong, Y., et al.
Invited talk, Ellison Medical Institute, September 2026.

Trustworthy Protein–Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction via Reliability-Aware Multi-Engine Fusion (RELIABLE-BA)
Hong, Y., et al.
Poster, 2026 Drug Discovery Innovation Workshop.

Reviewer

NeurIPS 2026 ICBINB-BIO Workshop
Reviewer, 2026

Community & Mentorship

Google AI Community | USC Viterbi
January 2025 – December 2025

• Mentor for a group of 5+ interns; planned AI-focused community projects.
• Organized an AI image generation session in partnership with the CS@SC Coding Fair and LA Maker Faire.