Members
Staffs
Sundong Kim
Assistant Professor
Lab director (22/11 ~)
Sejin Kim
Postdoctoral researcher
AGI (23/04 ~)
Sungwon Han
Postdoctoral researcher
AGI (25/04 ~)
Graduate Students
Woochang Sim (Leader)
PhD student (25/03 ~)
LLM agents
Jihwan Lee
MS+PhD student (23/03 ~)
World models
Jaehyun Park
MS+PhD student (23/09 ~)
Diffusion, Test-time LLM
Seokki Lee
MS+PhD student (23/09 ~)
Neuro-symbolic AI
Jiwon Park
MS+PhD student (24/03 ~)
ARC-PRIZE
Woletemaryam Liyew
MS student (23/09 ~)
Genetic algorithm
Donghyeon Shin (Study)
MS student (24/03 ~)
Library building
Klea Lena Kovačec
MS student (24/03 ~)
Logic
Marha Midhatiey Rusli
MS student (24/03 ~)
LLM applications
Seungpil Lee
MS student (25/03 ~)
Library building, CogSci
Yunho Kim
MS student (25/03 ~)
Diffusion with RL
Jaegyun Im
MS student (25/03 ~)
World models
Hyunseok Ryu
MS/PhD Student (25/09 ~)
Competition & Engineering
Undergraduate Students
Geonwoo Cho
Research Intern (24/04 ~)
Casual RL, Skill RL
Kyungmin Choi
G-SURF (25/03 ~)
Benchmark & Platform
Heejun Kim
Research Intern (25/03 ~)
Reinforcement learning
Hojun Yi
Research Intern (25/03 ~)
World Models
Minkyung Kim
Research Intern (25/03 ~)
Adaptive AGI
Jeongjun Lee
Research Intern (25/05 ~)
Active Inference
Jumyung Park
G-SURF (25/06 ~)
ARC
Doyoon Kim
Thesis II (25/07 ~)
Casual RL
Jinseo Shim
Research Intern (25/07 ~)
ARC
Visitors
Paulina Vennemann
GIP (25/06 ~ 25/08)
University of Hamburg
Ayush Raina
GIP (25/06 ~ 25/08)
Indian Institute of Science
Ayush Kumar Singh
GIP (25/06 ~ 25/08)
IIT Bombay
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)
- Jungmin Kim (GIST)
- Dr. Lancelot Da Costa (VERSES AI)
- Prof. Pierre-Alexandre Murena (Technische Universität Hamburg)
- Prof. Miguel Couceiro (Técnico 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):
- Hyunseok Ryu, Sep 2024 - Aug 2025 (GIST EECS → MS/PhD student in our lab)
- 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)
- Doyoon Song, Mar 2023 - Jun 2023 (GIST EECS → Software Engineer at Palantir)
- Hyebin Jin, Mar 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
- Sua Yun, Mar 2025 - Jun 2025 (Inha University)
- Hayan Choi, Jan 2025 - Feb 2025 (VtoV)
- 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)
- 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 (PhD student at UPenn ESE)
- 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:
