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Faculty
Hyunwoo J Kim (김현우) Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Machine Learning and Vision Lab
School of Computing (SoC), KAIST
email: hyunwoojkim@kaist.ac.krtel: +82-42-350-3518
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About Me
About Me
Associate Professor
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Hyunwoo J. Kim is an associate professor in the School of Computing (SoC) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST). He is also affiliated faculty in the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI at KAIST. Prior to the position, he led his lab at Korea University (Mar. 2019 ~ Jan. 2025). Earlier in his career, he worked at Amazon Lab126 in Sunnyvale California. In 2017, he earned the Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. minor: Statistics) under the supervision of Dr. Vikas Singh. In 2013, he completed his internship in the Machine Learning Analytics Team at Amazon in Seattle, Washington.
His main focus is machine learning and computer vision for visual understanding and he has been actively publishing at AI venues (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML etc.). Specifically, his research interests include Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Multimodal Foundation Models, Generative Models, 3D vision, Implicit Neural Representations, Graph Neural Networks, and medical imaging.
He is currently serving, or has served, as an Area Chair for CVPR 2026, CVPR 2025, CVPR 2024, ICCV 2025, ICLR 2026, ICLR 2025, and WACV 2026.
ICT Challenge 2024 Minister Award (ICT 챌린지 2024 장관상)
2021 AI Grand Challenge for disaster response drones Minister Award (인공지능 그랜드 챌린지 3차대회 장관상)
Post-doctoral researchers
Post-doctoral researchers
Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Students
Byung Oh Ko (고병오) ✉️ 🎓
MS/Ph.D Integrated Student
Research interests:
Computer Vision
Multimodal Learning
Minseo Yoon (윤민서) ✉️ 🎓
MS/Ph.D Integrated Student
Research interests:
Machine Learning on Graphs
AI for Science
Master Students
Master Students
Jeehye Na (나지혜) ✉️ 🎓
Master Student
Research interests:
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Multimodal Learning
Interns
Interns
Youngseo Cho (조영서) ✉️ 🎓
Undergraduate Student
Research interests:
Computer Vision
Agentic AI
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Jinwoo Seo (서진우) ✉️ 🎓
Undergraduate Student
Research interests:
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Generative Model
Doctoral Alumni
Doctoral Alumni
Jinyoung Park 박진영 (Aug in 2025) is now a post-doctoral researcher at KAIST.
Sanghyeok Lee 이상혁 (Aug in 2025) is now a post-doctoral researcher at KAIST.
Seunghun Lee 이승훈 (Aug in 2025) is now a post-doctoral researcher at KAIST.
Seongjun Yun 윤성준 (Aug in 2022) is now at Amazon [Link].
Bumsoo Kim 김범수 (Feb in 2022) is now an assistant professor (조교수) at Chung-Ang University (중앙대) after LG AI Research, and KakaoBrain [Link].
Master's Alumni
Master's Alumni
Chanhyeong Yang 양찬형 (Aug in 2025).
Inho Kong 공인호 (Aug in 2025) is now an intern at Naver Cloud.
Choi Min Hyuk 최민혁 (Feb in 2025) is now at JLK.
Ju Han Cha 차주한 (Aug in 2024) is now at MORAI after 42dot.
Shinyeong Noh 노신영 (Aug in 2024) is now at LG CNS.
Eulrang Cho 조을랑 (Feb in 2024) is now a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University.
Jihyeon Kang 강지현 (Feb in 2024) is now at Samsung Electronics.
Jaewoon Byun 변재운 (Feb in 2024) is now at Hanhwa Vision.
Juyeon Ko 고주연 (Feb in 2024) is now at KT.
Jooyeon Kim 김주연 (Feb in 2024) is now at Samsung Electronics.
Hyeong Kyu Choi 최형규 (Aug in 2023) is now a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Minkyu Jeon 전민규 (Aug in 2023) is now a Ph.D. student at Princeton University.
Chiyoon Kim 김치윤 (Aug in 2023) is now at LG Electronics.
Mouad Lasri (Aug in 2023).
Jaewon Lee 이재원 (Feb in 2023) is now at AIMatics.
Hwan Heo 허환 (Feb in 2023) is now at NCSOFT.
Dasol Hwang 황다솔 (Feb in 2023) is now at LG AI Research.
SeungJun Lee 이승준 (Feb in 2023) is now at LG AI Research.
Sungdong Yoo 유성동 (Aug in 2022) is now at LG AI Research.
Seungdong Yoa 여승동 (Feb in 2022) is now at LG AI Research.
Hyeonjin Park 박현진 (Feb in 2022) is now at NAVER CLOVA.
Chongkeun Paik 백종근 (Feb in 2022) is now at Samsung Electro-Mechanics.
Youngjin Oh 오영진 (Feb in 2022) is now at Imagoworks.
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