People

Faculty

Hyunwoo J Kim (김현우) Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Machine Learning and Vision Lab
School of Computing, KAISTemail: hyunwoojkim@kaist.ac.krtel: +82-42-350-5683
[CV] [GoogleScholar]

About Me

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 2025, CVPR 2024, ICCV 2025, and ICLR 2025.

ICT Challenge 2024 Minister Award (ICT 챌린지 2024 장관상)
2021 AI Grand Challenge for disaster response drones Minister Award (인공지능 그랜드 챌린지 3차대회 장관상)

Ph.D. Students

Sihyeon Kim (김시현) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
3D structured data processing
3D deep learning

Jinyoung Park (박진영) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
AI for Science
Machine Learning on Graphs

Sanghyeok Lee (이상혁) ✉️ 🎓 🏠

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision
Efficient DL
3D Vision

Seunghun Lee (이승훈) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Machine Learning on Graphs

Dohwan Ko (고도환) ✉️ 🎓 🏠

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Multi-modal Understanding
Video Understanding
Foundation Models
Large Language Models

Jihwan Park (박지환) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision
Machine Learning on Graphs

JoonMyung Choi (최준명) ✉️ 🎓 🏠

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision
Meta Learning

Sojin Lee (이소진) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision
Meta Learning

Minseok Joo (주민석) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
3D vision
Machine Learning on Graphs

Dogyun Park (박도균) ✉️ 🎓 🏠

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Generative Model
Probabilistic Model
Computer Vision

Injae Kim (김인재) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
3D vision
Generative model

Jongha Kim (김종하) ✉️ 🎓 🏠

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Multimodal LLM
Scene Understanding

Se Hyung Kim (김세형) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision

Jaewon Chu (주재원) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
AI for Science
Bayesian Optimization

Jin Young Kim (김진영) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision
Agentig Reasoning

Byung Oh Ko (고병오) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision
Multimodal Learning

Ji Soo Lee (이지수) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision

Tae Hoon Song (송태훈) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision

Chaehyeon Kim (김채현) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Generative Model
3D Vision

Jeehye Na (나지혜) ✉️ 🎓

MS/Ph.D Integrated Student

Research interests:
Artificial General Intelligence(AGI)
Multimodal Learning

Master Students

Heeji Won (원희지) ✉️ 🎓

Master Student

Research interests:
Machine Learning on Graphs
Computer Vision

Chanhyeong Yang (양찬형) ✉️ 🎓

BS/MS Integrated Student

Research interests:
Computer Vision

Inho Kong (공인호) ✉️ 🎓

BS/MS Integrated Student

Research interests:
Generative model
Computer Vision

TaeHoon Lee (이태훈) ✉️ 🎓

Master Student

Research interests:
Generative model
Computer Vision

Minseong Bae (배민성) ✉️ 🎓 🏠

BS/MS Integrated Student

Research interests:
Machine Learning on Graphs
Generative Models
AI for Science

Minseo Yoon (윤민서) ✉️ 🎓

BS/MS Integrated Student

Research interests:
Machine Learning on Graphs
AI for Science

Administrative Staff

Min Soyeong (민소영) ✉️

Doctoral Alumni

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

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 at Samsung Research.
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.