Young-Jin Park

Young-Jin Park

Building reliable AI • MIT PhD '26 • Ex-Meta, NAVER

About

I have deep expertise in understanding and improving the reliability of AI systems. My work focuses on developing AI that inherently “knows what it does and does not know,” enabling adaptive computation and more efficient decision-making. Ultimately, my goal is to optimize performance in long-tail scenarios while maintaining robustness under extreme uncertainty.

I completed my PhD at MIT with a thesis on Reliable Foundation Models: From Instance-Level Assessment to Uncertainty-Aware Adaptation. Prior to MIT, I deployed production-scale ML systems at Meta Instagram and NAVER AI Lab. I am joining Tesla as a Senior Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer, focusing on the next generation of reliable end-to-end autonomous systems.

Research Focus
World Modeling, End-to-End Autonomy (Current)
Foundation Model Reliability, Calibration, Reasoning Models, Vision-Language Models (2022 – 2026)
Sequential Decision Making, Recommendation Systems, Reinforcement Learning (2017 – 2022)

Recent Posts

FAQs: Uncertainty, Confidence, and Hallucination
Stochastic Blackbox
From Reasoning to World Models for Reliable AI
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Selected Publications

Full publication list available at Google Scholar

LLM Reliabiltiy
Overconfidence & Calibration in Medical VQA: Empirical Findings & Hallucination-Aware Mitigation
J.Y. Byun, Y.J. Park, J.P. Corbeil, and A. Ben Abacha
Under review at Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2026
Know What You Don't Know: Uncertainty Calibration of Process Reward Models
Y.J. Park, K. Greenewald, K. Alim, H. Wang, and N. Azizan
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025 [Featured on MIT News]
Robotics
Distilling a Hierarchical Policy for Planning & Control via Representation and Reinforcement Learning
J.S. Ha*, Y.J. Park*, H.J. Chae, S.S. Park, and H.L. Choi
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
Adaptive Path-Integral Autoencoder: Representation Learning and Planning for Dynamical Systems
J.S. Ha, Y.J. Park, H.J. Chae, S.S. Park, and H.L. Choi
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018
Time-Series Forecasting
Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems using Time-Series Foundation Models
Y.J. Park, F. Germain, J. Liu, Y. Wang, T. Akino, G. Wichern, N. Azizan, C. Laughman, and A. Chakrabarty
Energy and Buildings, 2025
A Large-Scale Ensemble Learning Framework for Demand Forecasting
Y.J. Park, D. Kim, F. Odermatt, J. Lee, and K.M. Kim
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2022 [Oral Presentation; Top 9.77%]