Kyung-Joong Kim

Professor
Department of AI Convergence, 
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Research Field
Game Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Academic Positions
03/2025 – Now       Professor, GIST
04/2019 – 02/2025 Associate Professor, GIST, South Korea 
09/2013 – 03/2019 Associate Professor, Sejong University
09/2015 – 08/2016 Visiting Researcher (Host: Prof. Anind Dey) HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
03/2009 – 08/2013 Assistant Professor, Sejong University, South Korea 
07/2007 – 02/2009 Postdoctoral Researcher (Advisor : Prof. Hod Lipson) Cornell University, USA 
03/2007 – 06/2007 Postdoctoral Researcher (Advisor : Prof. Sung-Bae Cho) Yonsei University, South Korea 

Ph.D. Program

Ho-Taek Joo

Vision-based eSports (Game AI), VR/AR, Reinforcement Learning

Cheong-mok Bae

Game AI, eSports, PCG

Tae-Hwa Park

Game-AI, Meta-Learning, Procedural Content Generation


Ecehan Akan

Game Design, HCI, UX

Jae-Young Moon

Human-Centered Game Artificial Intelligence

M.S.-Ph.D. Integrated Program

Yun-Ho Choi

HCI, HRI, Healthcare

Wonsang You

Human-AI Coordination

Hyeon-Chang Jeon

Multi-agent Learning, Autonomous Driving

SungHa Lee

VR, Game AI

Isaac Han

Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning

Inchang Baek

Reinforcement Learning, Multi-modal Policy

Byunghwa Yoo

NLP, AGI, NLP Applications in Games

Seungwon Oh

Reinforcement Learning

Doyoung Kim

Reinforcement Learning, Game AI

Yucheon Park

VLM-based Game Generation, Game AI

M.S. Program

Seo-Young Lee

Game AI, Meta-RL

Sangyeon Park

Loss of Plasticity, Reinforcement Learning, Continual Learning

Kyungbeom Kim

Multi-Agent RL

Yujin Kim

Game AI, eSports, Computer Vision

Sung-Hyun Kim

Game AI

Gyung-Bo Kim

Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning

Younsung Lee

Game AI, eSports

Eunju Kwon

Reinforcement Learning

Geum-Hwan Hwang

Game AI