Kanghoon Yoon
AI Engineer, Huawei Research · Singapore
I am an AI Engineer at the Huawei Research Center in Singapore, where I joined the Audio & Video Algorithm Team in November 2025.
I earned my Ph.D. from KAIST in August 2025 under the guidance of Associate Professor, Chanyoung Park, at the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (DSAIL).
My research portfolio spans Scene Understanding, Multi-modal Foundation model, and Embodied AI with a strong focus on optimizing AI inference efficiency and advancing representation learning. I am also deeply invested in enhancing the security of deep learning through research on adversarial attacks and robustness.
I am always open to insightful discussions and potential collaborations. Feel free to reach out to me via email at ykhoon0827@gmail.com or through LinkedIn.
News
- May 2026 My first-author paper got accepted at ICML 2026
- Jan 2026 A paper got accepted at ICLR 2026
- Nov 2025 I joined Huawei Singapore Research Center as AI Engineer
- Sep 2025 A paper got accepted at NeurIPS 2025
- Aug 2025 A paper got accepted at EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
- Aug 2025 I received Ph.D at KAIST!
- June 2025 I completed my Ph.D dissertation!
- Feb 2025 Started internship at Naver Cloud
- Jan 2025 A paper got accepted at ICLR 2025
- Dec 2024 My first-author paper got accepted at AAAI 2025
- Oct 2024 A paper got accepted at WSDM 2025
- Jul 2024 A paper got accepted at CIKM 2024
- Jul 2024 A paper got accepted at ECCV 2024
- June 2024 I joined Qualcomm AI (San Diego) as an internship
Education
- 2021–2025 KAIST — Ph.D Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- 2019–2021 KAIST — M.S Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- 2013–2019 Hanyang University — B.S Mathematics
Work Experience
- 2025–Present Huawei Research — AI Engineer Singapore · Dec 2025 – Present
- 2025 Naver Cloud — Research Intern Republic of Korea · Feb – Aug 2025
- 2024 Qualcomm AI — Research Intern San Diego · Jun – Sep 2024
Academic Services
Invited Talks
- Dec 2023 Korea Software Congress Talk at the top conference session
- Aug 2023 Korea Computer Congress Talk at the top conference session