Background
Education
KAIST · Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
Feb 2022 – Oct 2026 (Expected)
Advisors: Kimin Lee and Jinwoo ShinKAIST · B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics
Mar 2016 – Feb 2021
Work Experience
NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab
Research Intern with Yijie Guo and Yashraj Narang (May 2026 – Sep 2026)
The University of Texas at Austin
Visiting Scholar working with Prof. Yuke Zhu (Sep 2024 – Jul 2025)
Recommendation Team, Kakao
Machine Learning Engineer (Dec 2020 – Feb 2022)
Honors and Awards
- Silver Reviewer Award, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
- Notable Reviewer, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
- Finalist, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024 Korea
- Travel Award, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
- Scholarship, KAIST-Google Partnership Program, 2023
- East Asia Student Travel Grant, Google, 2023
- Travel Award, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
- Dean's List, KAIST Department of Engineering, Fall 2019
- Line Scholarship, KAIST School of Computing, Fall 2019
- National Science and Engineering Scholarship, Korea Ministry of Science and ICT, 2017–2019
Invited Talks
Efficient Post-Training for Robotic Foundation Models in Real-World Deployment
CMU LeCAR Lab (Advisor: Guanya Shi) · Sep 2026
Guide Your Agent with Adaptive Multimodal Rewards
LG AI Research @ NeurIPS · Dec 2023
Academic Services
- Conference Reviewer: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CoRL, AAAI, RSS, ECCV, ICRA, RA-L
- Workshop Reviewer: ICML Frontiers4LCD 2023, CoRL MRM-D 2024, NeurIPS WRM 2026, CoRL Scaling H2R 2026, CoRL CSIR 2026, CoRL R2RL 2026
Mentoring
- Yonghoon Dong (Mar 2026 – Sep 2026), now a Ph.D. student at KAIST
- Myungkyu Koo (Aug 2025 – Jan 2026), now a Ph.D. student at KAIST
- Taeyoung Kim (Aug 2025 – Jan 2026), now a Ph.D. student at KAIST
- Suhyeok Jang (Aug 2025 – Jan 2026), now a Ph.D. student at KAIST
- Namgyu Kim (Jan 2026 – Sep 2026), now a B.S. student at POSTECH