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
- Google Scholar Page
- Room 519, Dasan Bldg, GIST
- 062) 715-5345
- kjkim@gist.ac.kr
Ph.D. Program
M.S.-Ph.D. Integrated Program
M.S. Program
Researcher
Alumni
- Ho-Taek Joo (Feb 2026, Ph.D.) – eSports Broadcasting with AI, InnoCORE Postdoc@GIST
- Sangyeon Park (Feb 2026, M.S.) – Prevent Neural Networks from Plasticity Loss
- Kyungbeom Kim (Feb 2026, M.S.) – Diversity for Multi-Agent RL
- Yunho Choi (2025, August, Ph.D.) – Tactile sensing system with AI, Postdoc at University of Washington
- Seoyoung Lee (2025, August, M.S.) – Human-like Level Generation via RL
- Jin-ha Noh (2024, August, M.S.) – LLM for Procedural Contents Generation
- Insik Chung (2024, August, M.S.) – LLM for Angry Birds Playing, Jenti
- Ho-Yun Jeong (2024 Feb, M.S.) – Prompt Compression for Large Language Models, KT (Korea Telecom)
- Eun-Hee Kim (2024 Feb, M.S.) – Sign Dance Generation, Cinamon
- Tae-Gwan Ha (2023 Aug, M.S.) – Curriculum Learning for Overcooked Game, Krafton
- Dong-Hyeok Park (2023 Feb, M.S.) – Role-Playing Game Gym for AI Research
- Song-Mi Oh (2023 Feb, M.S.) – Federated Reinforcement Learning for Healthcare, KAI (Korea Aerospace Industries)
- Kihong Kim (2022 Feb, M.S.) – Unaligned Image-to-Image Translation, LG Innotek
- Jae-Young Moon (2022 Feb, M.S.) – Diversifying Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment, Ph. D. Program @ GIST
- TaeHwa Park (2021 Aug, M.S.) – Reinforcement Learning for Procedural Contents Generation, Ph. D. Program @ GIST
- Jonghun Park (2020 Aug, B.S.) – Cloud Computing, LINE
- Wooil Shim (2020 Feb, M.S.) – Autonomous Driving, A2Mind
- Seong-Hun Yoon (2019 Aug, M.S.) – Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, Electronic Arts
- Byeong-Jun Min (2019 Feb, M.S.) – Episodic Control, Hanwha Systems
- JaeYoon Noh (M.S. program at Multimedia and Internet Lab at Sejong University)
- SeungJin Lee (M.S. program at Multimedia and Internet Lab at Sejong University)
- ByungHo Yoo (2019 Feb, M.S. all but thesis) – Neural Style Art, Serve in the military
- Bae Cheong-Mok (2018 Aug, M.S.) – Deep Learning for StarCraft AI, Ph.D. program @ GIST
- Jeon Ji-Hoon (2018 Feb, M.S.) – Game Data Mining, Grip Company
- Sehar Shahzad Farooq (2018 Aug, Ph.D.) – Game Player Modeling, PostDoc Researcher @ Gyeongsang National University
- Park Hyun-Soo (2018 Feb, Ph.D.) – Deep Reinforcement Learning for Video Games, Krafton
- Yoon Du-Mim (2018 Feb, Ph.D.) – Deep Learning for Style Transfer, NC AI
- Kim Man-Je (2017 Aug, B.S.) – Fighting Game AI, StartCraft AI, Assistant Professor @ Chonnam National University
- Oh In-Seok (2016 Aug, M.S.) – Real-Time Strategy Game AI, NCSoft
- Kim Hyun-Tae (2015 Feb, M.S.) – Deep Learning, Coupang
- Cho Ho-Chul (2014 Aug, B.S.) – StarCraft AI, Samsung
- Park Hyun-Soo (2013 Feb, M.S.) – Fault-Tolerant Systems, Sejong Univ. Ph.D. student
- Yoon Du-Mim (2012 Aug, M.S.) – Fault-Tolerant Systems, Sejong Univ. Ph.D. student
- Park Jung-Guk (2012 Feb, M.S.) – Traffic Sign Recognition, KAIST Ph.D. student
Collaborators
Georgios Yannakakis (Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta)
Julian Togelius (Director of the NYU Game Innovation Lab, New York University)
Daniela Rus (CSAIL, MIT)
Wojciech Matusik (CSAIL, MIT)
Ruck Thawonmas (College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University)
Rupam Mahmood (Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta)
Eugene Vinitsky (New York University)
Hojoon Lee (KAIST)