News

News

• [Sep 2024] Jae-Young Moon has been awarded the Doctoral Research Grant by the National Research Foundation (NRF).
• [Aug 2024]  Jaehyeon Baik, Sejun Park, Yunho Choi, Prof. Hosu Lee, and Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim received the Best Presentation Paper Award at the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Systems (IWIS) for their paper titled “The Measurement Algorithm of Center of Pressure Based on the Tactile Sensor”.
• [Aug 2024] SeungWon has been awarded a Student Travel Grant for the IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2024.
  
• [Aug 2024] Inchang and Jin-ha’s team won second place at the ChatGPT4PCG Competition (Link)
• [July 2024] Our members  InChang (NYU, Prof. Julian Togelius’ lab) and Hyeon-Chang (NYU, Prof. Eugene Vinitsky’s lab) have been awarded the Graduate International Research Experience Fellowship (GIST-IREF).
• [June 2024] Yunho, Tae-Gwan, and Sang-Yeon’s team won second place at the IEEE CIS Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and Healthcare Competition (Link)
• [June 2024] Ho-Taek’s team received an excellence award at the AI Startup Competition (Link)
• [Apr 2024] Seo-Young Lee has been awarded the Master’s Research Grant by the National Research Foundation (NRF).
• [Jan 2024] Prof. Kim was appointed as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Games. 
• [Jan 2024] Our work on virtual locomotion gesture classification was accepted in IEEE VR 2024 (Link)

Old News

• [Dec 2023] Wooju (summer intern) received a paper award from KSC 2023 (Link) 
• [Nov 2023] SBS news introduced our work on Game AI at G-STAR 2023 (Link)  
• [Nov 2023] Our immersive article on reinforcement learning was published in IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Link} 
• [July 2023] Prof. Kim was appointed as a director of Korea Culture Technology Institute ( Link ). 
• [May 2023] Team Algo presented “the AI communicating through dancing” at Daegu Art Factory! (Link)
• [Apr 2023] “Emo-tris” was in the Korea Science Festival 2023 (Link)
• [Apr 2023] MIT and GIST researchers develop a natural and comfortable “Seamless-walk” VR locomotion system (Link)
• [Dec 2022] Yunho Choi (Team Leader: Hosu Lee) won Third Prize @ GIST AI+X Projects Competition (Link) 
• [Sep 2022] Best Game AI Jam Project by Popular Vote @ 4th Int. Summer School on AI and Games (Link) 
• [Jul. 2022] Byung-Hwa Yoo, Tae-Gwan Ha, Tae-Hwa Park, Inchang Baek and Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim has been chosen for the Best Presentation Paper Award at KCC2022 (Link) 
• [Jul. 2022] CI Lab is selected for Game Simulation AI technology research grant (Link)
• [Jul. 2022] STAR-MOOC lecture ( Game Artificial Intelligence ) is available on: (Link)
• [Aug. 2022] Cheongmok Bae, Jaeyoung Moon, Isaac Han, and Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim will organize IEEE CoG 2022 StarCraft AI Competition (Link)
• [May 2022] Yunho won the Excellence award for ‘Metaverse moving device using high-resolution tactile sensor’ from GIST Startup Idea Contest (Link) 
• [Mar. 2022] Inseok Oh (Alumni) will present about Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in GDC 2022 (Link)
• [Jan. 2022] The research of Yunho Choi, Hyeonchang Jeon, Sungha Lee, Isaac Han, Yiyue Luo(MIT), Prof. SeungJun Kim(GIST), Prof. Wojciech Matusik(MIT), and Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim was accepted as a poster to IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2022 (Youtube)
• [Dec. 2021] Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim introduced CILab on YouTube (Link)
• [Aug. 2021] Cheongmok Bae and Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim will organize IEEE CoG 2021 StarCraft AI Competition (Link) 
• [Jul.   2021] New research grant on game AI from Basic Research Lab program by National Research Foundation 
• [Jun.  2021] Isaac Han and his teammates  placed 2nd place in GIST Business Incubator Idea Contest (Link) 
• [May. 2021] New research grant from XR Lab research program (P.I. SeungJun, Co-PI KyungJoong) (Link) 
• [Dec. 2020] Kihong Kim and Wonsang You placed 3rd in  2020 Dream AI Smart Device Hackathon (Link)
• [Dec. 2020] Jaeyoung Moon, Hyeonchang Jeon, and Isaac Han placed 4th place in 2020 Dream AI Deep Racer Competition (Link) 
• [Aug. 2020] Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim will organize IEEE CoG 2020 with Prof. Ruck Thawonmas (Link) 
• [Aug. 2020] Cheongmok Bae and Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim will organize IEEE CoG 2020 StarCraft AI Competition (Link) 
• [Jul.   2020] Our lab was mentioned in Donga science article (Link) 
• [Jan. 2020] Seonghun Yoon (Alumni) co-authored a book on multi-agent reinforcement learning with ML-Agent (Link)
• [Dec. 2019] Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim in GIST webzine (Link)
• [Sep. 2019] GIST Graduate School of AI established based on recent government award (Link) 
• [Sep. 2019] New research grant on assistive technology for disabled (Link)
• [Apr. 2019] Prof. Kyung-Joong Kim moved to Institute of Integrated Technology at GIST (Link)
• [March 2019] In Seok (Alumni) interview on hankookilbo (Link)
• [March 2019] Prof. Kyung-Joong attended to Shonnan Meeting on General Game AI (Link)
• [March 2019] Our CoG 2019 StarCraft AI Competition proposal (by SeongHun Yoon) was accepted (Link).
• [Feb 2019] Andrew Lee received a prize from Korea Software Congress Junior Paper Competition.
• [Jan 2019] SeongHun Yoon gave a talk on StarCraft AI at NCSOFT AI Day (Link)
• [Dec 2018] Prof. Kim will organize IEEE Conference on Games 2020 with Prof. Ruck Thawonmas as a General Co-Chair (Link) 
• [June 2018] InChang Baek was selected as a travel grant awardee for IEEE CIG 2018.
• [Feb 2018] Our lab participated in 2018 NCSOFT AI Day (Link).
• [Oct 2017] Our MJBOT participated in the Human vs. StarCraft AI match (Results)
• [June 2017] Cheong-Mok Bae will do a summer internship at NCSoft.
• [June 2017] Kyung-Joong Kim organized a software demo/implementation contest (Webpage)
• [June 2017] JiHoon Jeon received a good paper award from KCC 2017 (Link).
• [Mar 2017] Our lab will organize a new Game Data Mining Competition with ETRI and NCSOFT at IEEE CIG 2017 (https://cilab.gist.ac.kr/gdmc2017/).
• [Dec 2016] Our lab members (HyunSoo Park, SeongHun Yoon, and ManJe Kim) visited ICELab at Ritsmeikan University (http://www.ice.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp/).
• [Aug 2016] ByungHo Yoo received student travel grant award at IEEE CIG 2016.
• [Sep 2015 ~ Aug 2016] Prof. Kim leaves on Sabbatical at Human Computer Interaction Institute @ Carnegie Mellon University.
• [Mar 2016] An Interview about StarCraft from Man-Je Kim was conducted by DongaScience Reporter. Watch Video Interview here
• [Jan 2016] Cheong-mok Bae and Seonghoon Yoon received a Good Paper Award from Undergraduate Student Paper Competition @ KIISE Winter Conference.
• [Sep 2015] Jiyuu Yi, Manje Kim, and Cheong-mok Bae were ranked as 2nd and 3rd place of IEEE CIG fighting game AI competitions Sejong Press
• [AUG 2015] Sehar Shahzad Farooq, In-seok Oh, Man-je Kim and Prof. Kim, organize a 2015 StarCraft AI Competition at IEEE CIG 2015.
• [August 2015] Cheong-Mok Bae was selected as a travel grant awardee for IEEE CIG 2015.
• [July ~ August 2015] Three lab mebmers (HyunSoo Park, Du-Mim Yoon and In-Seok Oh) will have an internship at NCSoft.
• [June 2015] Prof. Kim gave a special lecture @ NCSoft.
• [Feb 2015] Presentation Award @ KIISE (Korean Institute of Information Scienctists and Engineers) 2014 Fall Conference (HyunTae Kim).
• [AUG 2014] Prize and Awards in Game AI Competitions @ IEEE CIG and ECAI Results.
• [AUG 2014] Prof. Kim is added to the editorial board of Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence JETAI .
• [AUG 2014] Prof. Kim is appointed as a vice chair of real-time strategy games task force at games technical committee in IEEE Computational Intelligence Society RTS TF
• [AUG 2014] Prof. Kim (with Prof. Sung-Bae Cho, Ruck Thawonmas, and Jacek Mandziuk) got approval on the The Scientific World Journal special issue on “Recent Advances in Intelligent Techniques for Games,” CFP
• [AUG 2014] Prof. Kim (with Prof. Sung-Bae Cho) organizes a special session on “Mobile and Entertainment Computing,” at IES 2014 CFP.
• [AUG 2014] Prof. Kim, Ho-Chul Cho and In-Seok Oh (Undergraduate Students) organize a 2014 StarCraft AI Competition at IEEE CIG 2014 CFP Sejong Press
• [JUL 2014] Prof. Kim (with Prof. Sung-Bae Cho) organizes a special session on “Computational Intelligence and Games” at WCCI 2014 CFP
• [OCT 2013] 2nd Place Fighting Game AI Competition Kyoung-Jun Ahn and Dong-Hyun Jang Sejong News Letter
• [AUG 2013] 3rd Place Student Video Competition (IEEE CIG 2013) Hyun Tae Kim and Du-Mim Yoon Sejong Press
• [AUG 2013] Finalists Angry Birds AI Competition (IJCAI 2013) Du-Mim Yoon
• [AUG 2011] 3rd Place StarCraft AI Competition (IEEE CIG 2011) Ho-Chul Cho Sejong Press

Press

• [May 2021] AI Times  
• [July 2020] Story of Seoul 
• [July 2020] Donga Science
• [Oct 2019] 소통약자 과제: bizChosun , dhnews ,  kwangjuilbo , newsworks , unn 
• [May 2019] Comment on DeepMind article,  MK news 
• MK : https://www.mk.co.kr/news/it/view/2019/05/368499/
• Yonhap News : <세기의 대국> ‘스타 AI’ 개발자 “인간 이기려면 몇년 더 걸려”
• INEWS24 : 최강 스타크래프트 AI, 직접 붙어보니…
• Donga Science Video : [비주얼 사이언스] 스타크래프트 인공지능 vs 과학동아 기자
• Chosun.com : “교수·학생 함께 주기적으로 연구 공유… 인공지능 분야서 우수한 성적 내는 이유”
• Sejong Science & Technology News Letter : 세종공대 4월호 – 인공지능
• CMU HCII News : Kim Explores the Next Frontier in AI Game Agents
• KCISA Naver TV Cast : AI의 종착역, 한국 E-Sport
• The Hankyoreh newspaper : 스타크래프트 ‘좀 했던’ 기자, 인공지능과 맞붙다
• SK Hynix Blog : 인공지능! 스타크래프트를 플레이하다.

International

• Game Data Mining Competition @ IEEE CIG 2017
• StarCraft AI Competition @ IEEE CIG 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
• The 17th Asia Pacific Symposium of Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2013)
• IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (CIG 2011)
• Evolutionary Neural Networks Special Session at ICONIP 2009
• Evolutionary Neural Networks at Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (Due: Feb 28 2010)

Domestic

• StarCraft AI vs. Human Match (Oct 31st Tuesday) at Sejong University, Korea
• HCI 2010 Tutorial Talk on Robot Intelligence