Profile
I am a Senior 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
Jan, 2026 A paper got accepted at ICLR 2026.
Nov, 2025 I joined Huawei Singapore Research Center as Senior 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.
Mar, 2024 A paper got accepted at CVPR 2024.
Education
KAIST Ph.D, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2021-2025)
KAIST M.S, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2019-2021)
Hanyang University B.S, Mathematics (2013-2019)
Work Experience
Huawei Research Senior AI Engineer, Singapore (Dec, 2025 - Present)
Naver Cloud Research Intern, Republic of Korea (Feb-Aug, 2025)
Qualcomm AI Research Intern, San Diego (Jun-Sep, 2024)
Academic Services
International Conference Area Chair: KDD (2026-Cycle2)
International Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS (2025), ICLR (2026), ICML (2026), CVPR (2026), AAAI (2024, 2025, 2026), KDD (2024, 2025-1, 2025-2, 2026-1)
International Journal Reviewer: ACM Knowledge Discovery from Data (2024), TPAMI (2024, 2025)
Invited Talk
Korea Software Congress I gave a talk at the top conference session of the Korea Software Congress (Dec, 2023)
Korea Computer Congress I gave a talk at the top conference session of the Korea Computer Congress (Aug, 2023)