News

News

• [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 (Youtube)2023

Old News

• [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