Members
Staffs
Sundong Kim
Assistant Professor
Lab director
Sejin Kim
Postdoctoral researcher
AGI, RL, Data mining
Brilliant Mind Incoming...
Postdoctoral researcher
Joining in April!
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
Jiwon Park
MS+PhD student (24/03 ~)
ARC-PRIZE, GPU
Woletemaryam Liyew
MS student (23/09 ~)
Genetic algorithm
Donghyeon Shin
MS student (24/03 ~)
Skill-based RL, Study group
Klea Lena Kovačec
MS student (24/03 ~)
Logic
Marha Midhatiey Rusli
MS student (24/03 ~)
LLM applications
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
Geonwoo Cho
Research Intern (24/04 ~)
Casual RL, Skill RL
Hyunseok Ryu
Thesis II (24/09 ~)
ARC-PRIZE, LLM engineering
Heejun Kim
Research Intern (25/03 ~)
Reinforcement learning
Hojun Yi
Research Intern (25/03 ~)
World Models
Kyungmin Choi
Thesis I (25/03 ~)
O2ARC
Sua Yun
Research Intern (25/03 ~)
Sys-2 Reasoning
Minkyung Kim
Research Intern (25/03 ~)
Adaptive AGI
Collaborators
- Prof. Byung-Jun Lee (Korea University)
- Hayeong Lee (Korea University)
- Jinwoo Jeon (Korea University)
- Prof. Hwanjun Song (KAIST)
- Prof. Xiaoxiao Li (University of British Columbia)
- Dr. Lancelot Da Costa (VERSES AI)
- Dr. Stephen Fitz (Keio University)
- Prof. Pierre-Alexandre Murena (Technische Universität Hamburg)
- Prof. Miguel Couceiro (Universidade de Lisboa)
Alumni
I have been fortunate to work with the following students.
Graduate Students (Thesis advised):
- Woochang Sim, Mar 2023 - Feb 2025 (GIST AI → PhD student in our lab) [Thesis]
- Sanha Hwang, Mar 2023 - Feb 2025 (GIST AI → AI Engineer at Minds and Company) [Thesis]
Undergraduate Students (Thesis advised):
- Suyeon Shim, Jan 2024 - May 2024 (GIST EECS → Frontend Engineer at Levit)
- 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 2023 - Dec 2023 (GIST EECS → MS student at TU Munich, AI in Society)
- Hyunjun Huh, Jul 2023 - Dec 2023 (GIST EECS → MS student at KAIST Business)
- Donghyeon Shin, Mar 2023 - Feb 2024 (GIST EECS → MS student in our lab)
- Wonkyu Seo, Mar 2023 - Dec 2023 (GIST EECS → Consultant at KoDATA)
- Hyebin Jin, Ma 2023 - Jun 2023 (GIST EECS → Financial Supervisory Service)
- Mintaek Lim, Jan 2023 - May 2024 (GIST EECS → MS/PhD student at SNU ECE)
- Jaegyun Im, Jan 2023 - Dec 2023, Sep 2024 - Feb 2025 (GIST EECS → MS student in our lab)
- Jaehyun Park, Jan 2023 - Aug 2023 (GIST EECS → MS/PhD student in our lab)
Interns & Visitors
- Jeongjun Lee, Mar 2025 - Current (GIST EECS)
- Hayan Choi, Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
- Jumyung Park, Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 (GIST EECS)
- Dohyun Ko, Jan 2024 - May 2024 (GIST EECS)
- Kena Melkamu Bulcha, Jul - Oct 2023 (GIST EECS)
- Peter Suk, Jul 2023 - Aug 2023 (Indiana University Bloomington)
- Tair Djanibekov, Jul 2023 - Aug 2023 (Inha University in Tashkent)
- Ana Sofia Mendonça, Jul 2023 - Aug 2023 (NOVA IMS)
- Ohyeon Kwon, Apr-Jun 2023 (GIST EECS)
- Doyoon Song, Mar 2023 - Jun 2023 (GIST EECS)
- Sabina Ualibekova, Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 (GIST EECS)
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 (Postdoc with us)
- Donghyun Ahn (Postdoc at MPI-SP)
- Eunji Lee (LG Electronics)
Undergraduate Students at IBS:
- Youngdo Lee (MS student at KAIST AI)
- Sangwoo Park (MS student at KAIST AI)
- Sheikh Shafayat (MLE at ALI Inc)
- Prin Phunyaphibarn (MS student at KAIST CS)
- Subin Kim (Visiting Researcher at Cornell)
- 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 Google Deepmind)
- 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)
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:
