Members

Staffs

Sundong Kim

Assistant Professor
Lab director

Sejin Kim

Postdoctoral researcher
Head of research

Graduate Students

Woochang Sim (Leader)

PhD student (25/03 ~)
LLM agents

Jihwan Lee

MS-PhD student (23/03 ~)
World models, Seminar

Jaehyun Park

MS-PhD student (23/09 ~)
Diffusion with RL

Seokki Lee

MS-PhD student (23/09 ~)
Neuro-symbolic AI

Woletemaryam Liyew

MS student (23/09 ~)
Genetic algorithm

Donghyeon Shin

MS student (24/03 ~)
Skill-based RL, Study group

Jiwon Park

MS-PhD student (24/03 ~)
ARC-PRIZE, GPU

Klea Lena Kovačec

MS student (24/03 ~)
Logic

Marha Midhatiey Rusli

MS student (24/03 ~)
Rule-based learning

Seungpil Lee

MS student (25/03 ~)
Skill-based RL, CogSci

Yunho Kim

MS student (25/03 ~)
Diffusion with RL

Jaegyun Im

MS student (25/03 ~)
World models

Undergraduate Students

Hyunseok Ryu

Research Intern (24/09 ~)
ARC-PRIZE

Heejun Kim

Research Intern (25/03 ~)
Reinforcement Learning

Visiting Scholars

Hayan Choi

Visiting Scholar
Alignment, UX/UI

Alumni

I have been fortunate to work with the following students.

Graduate Students at GIST Data Science Group:

• Woochang Sim, Mar 2023 - Feb 2025 (GIST AI → PhD student in our lab)
• Sanha Hwang, Mar 2023 - Feb 2025 (GIST AI → AI Engineer at Minds and Company)

Undergraduate Students at GIST Data Science Group:

• Jumyung Park, Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 (GIST EECS → Study Abroad Program at UC Berkeley)
• Geonwoo Cho, Jul 2024 - Dec 2024 (GIST EECS → Study Abroad Program at UC Berkeley)
• Heejun Kim, Jan-May 2024 (GIST EECS → Research Intern at Forschungszentrum Jülich)
• Suyeon Shim, Jan-May 2024 (GIST EECS → SWE Intern at NAVER)
• Dohyun Ko, Jan-May 2024 (GIST EECS → Summer School at UC Berkeley)
• Seungpil Lee, Sep 2023 - Feb 2025 (GIST EECS → MS student in our lab)
• Hosung Lee, Jul 2023 - Dec 2024 (GIST EECS → MS student at KAIST CS)
• Yunho Kim, Jul 2023 - Dec 2025 (GIST EECS → MS student in our lab)
• Jiwon Park, Jul 2023 - Feb 2024 (GIST EECS → MS/PhD student in our lab)
• Gyojoon Gu, Jul-Dec 2023 (GIST EECS → MS student at TU Munich, AI in Society)
• Hyunjun Huh, Jul-Dec 2023 (GIST EECS → MS student at KAIST Business)
• Kena Melkamu Bulcha, Jul-Oct 2023 (GIST EECS)
• Ohyeon Kwon, Apr-Jun 2023 (GIST EECS → SWE at Startup)
• Donghyeon Shin, Mar 2023 - Feb 2024 (GIST EECS → MS student in our lab)
• Wonkyu Seo, Mar-Dec 2023 (GIST EECS → Consultant at KoDATA)
• Doyoon Song, Mar-Jun 2023 (GIST EECS → Product Engineer at Toggle)
• Hyebin Jin, Mar-Jun 2023 (GIST EECS → Financial Supervisory Service)
• Mintaek Lim, Jan 2023-May 2024 (GIST EECS → MS/PhD student at SNU ECE)
• Jaegyun Im, Jan-Dec 2023, Sep 2024 - Feb 2025 (GIST EECS → MS student in our lab)
• Jaehyun Park, Jan-Aug 2023 (GIST EECS → MS/PhD student in our lab)
• Sabina Ualibekova, Jan-Jun 2023 (GIST EECS)

Visiting Students:

• Peter Suk, Jul-Aug 2023 (Indiana University Bloomington)
• Tair Djanibekov, Jul-Aug 2023 (Inha University in Tashkent)
• Ana Sofia Mendonça, Jul-Aug 2023 (NOVA IMS)
  

Before GIST

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IBS Data Science Group

Before joining GIST, I spent three years at IBS Data Science Group, where I worked with Prof. Meeyoung Cha. It's a fond memory of my early steps into mentorship and project management. I had the pleasure of working with these talented individuals:

Graduate Students at IBS:

• Sungwon Park
• Sungwon Han (In academic job market)
• Donghyun Ahn (Postdoc at MPI-SP)
• Eunji Lee (LG Electronics)

Undergraduate Students at IBS:

• Youngdo Lee (MS student at KAIST AI)
• Sangwoo Park
• Sheikh Shafayat
• Prin Phunyaphibarn
• Subin Kim (MS student at KAIST CS)
• Chaeyoon Jeong (AI Engineer at Samsung Research)
• Sihyeon Kim (MS student at KAIST AI)
• Assem Zhunis (PhD student at HKUST)
• Kien Hoang (Quant at Hedgefund)
• Aitolkyn Baigutanova (Researcher at Wikimedia)
• Gaukhartas Alina (SWE at Glassdome)
• Yuan Yuan (PhD at Tsinghua)
• Jaechan So (Backend at Coupang)
• Khanh Thi Nguyen (SWE at Amazon AWS)
• Tung-Duong Mai (SWE at Samsung Electronics)
• Yu-Che Tsai (PhD student at National Taiwan University)

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KAIST

During my PhD at KAIST, I was advised by Prof. Jae-Gil Lee. Throughout this period, I had the opportunity to work closely with:

Graduate Students at KAIST:

• Yooju Shin (Applied Scientist at Amazon)
• Sejin Kim (Postdoc with us)
• Hwanjun Song (Assistant Professor at KAIST)
• Sohyun Kim (RideFlux)
• Minseok Kim (Senior Research Scientist at Meta)

Undergraduate Students at KAIST:

• Beomyoung Kim