Background
Education
KAIST · M.S. + 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)
Data Science Group, Institute of Basic Science
Research Intern advised by Prof. Meeyoung Cha (Jul 2019 - Nov 2020)
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 ($2,000), Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
- Recipient ($3,000), KAIST-Google Partnership Program, 2023
- Recipient ($2,000), Google East Asia Student Travel Grant, 2023
- Travel Award ($1,000), International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
- Dean's List, KAIST Department of Engineering, Fall 2019
- Recipient ($5,000), Line Scholarship, KAIST School of Computing, Fall 2019
- Recipient, National Science and Engineering Scholarship, Korea Ministry of Science and ICT, 2017 - 2019
- Recipient ($3,000), Kwanjeong Scholarship, 2017
Invited Talks
Guide Your Agent with Adaptive Multimodal Rewards
LG AI Research (New Orleans, LA, USA)
Academic Services
- Conference Reviewer: ICML (2024–2026), NeurIPS (2024–2025), ICLR (2025–2027), CoRL (2026), AAAI (2026–2027), RSS (2026), ECCV (2026), RA-L (2027)
- Workshop Reviewer: Frontiers4LCD@ICML'23, MRM-D@CoRL'24, WRM@NeurIPS'26
Mentoring
- Yonghoon Dong (Mar 2026 – present), 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