Kibum Kim
Ph.D student majoring Machine Learning

Hello, I’m Kibum Kim!
Currently, I’m a third-year Ph.D student in Industrial & Systems Engineering at KAIST, where i am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Chanyoung Park. I’m holding a position of visiting scholar at University of California SanDiego (UCSD), mentored by Prof. Julian McAuley.
During my visit, I am focusing on Video Large Language Models to address their limitations in visual grounding capability. Previously, my research interests lay in scene understanding in the image and video domains, where I worked on challenges such as long-tailed distributions, data scarcity, and recommender systems.
If you are interested or have any question, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at kb.kim@kaist.ac.kr email.
News
Educations
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (link)Sep. 2023 - Present
- Ph.d in Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Research interest: Scene Understanding, Recommender Systems, Graph Neural Networks
- Advisor: Chanyoung Park
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (link)Sep. 2021 - Jul. 2023
- M.S in Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Research interest: Scene Understanding, Recommender Systems, Graph Neural Networks
- Advisor: Chanyoung Park
- Hanyang University (link) Mar. 2015 - Aug. 2021
- B.S., Industrial Engineering (major) & Computer Science (minor)
Project
- NAVER-Intel-KAIST (NIK) AI Collaboration Project Jul. 2024 - Present
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- Building a new AI ecosystem for increasing usability and applicability of Gaudi-v2 (link)
- AI Development for reasoning, extraction, understanding of Common-sense Jun. 2022 - Present
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- Reasoning the visual context based on common-sense
- Visual Intelligence Technique Development (ETRI) Jun. 2021 - Present
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- Scene graph generation for reasoning the visual context
Teaching Experience
- KSE801: Recommender System and Graph Machine Learning Fall 2022
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- Teaching Assistant Review session
- KSE527: Machine Learning for Knowledge Service Spring 2022
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- Teaching Assistant