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Curriculum Vitae — KyeongKook Seo
Contact Information
| Name | KyeongKook Seo (서경국) |
| Professional Title | Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence |
| kyeongkookseo@unist.ac.kr | |
| Location | AIGS, UNIST, 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, South Korea 44919 |
Professional Summary
Ph.D. student in the Lab of Advanced Imaging Technology (LAIT), AIGS, UNIST, advised by Prof. Jaejun Yoo. Research interests include generative models, federated learning, safety AI, loss landscape geometry, and weight-space learning.
Interests
International Conferences
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2026 What Linear Probes Miss: Multi-View Probing for Weight-Space Learning
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
E. Heo, K. Seo, and J. Yoo. ICML 2026, Vancouver (Poster).
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2025 Understanding Flatness in Generative Models: Its Role and Benefits
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
T. Lee, K. Seo, J. Yoo, and S. W. Yoon. ICCV 2025.
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2025 PRISM: Privacy-Preserving Improved Stochastic Masking for Federated Generative Models
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
K. Seo, D.-J. Han, and J. Yoo. ICLR 2025, Singapore.
Domestic Conferences (국내 학회)
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2026 가중치 공간에서의 위상-기반 모델 분류 (Topology-based Model Classification in Weight Space)
Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU)
E. Heo, K. Seo, and J. Yoo. IPIU 2026, Korea. Best Poster Presentation Award (우수포스터발표상).
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2025 원격 광혈류측정 기반 딥페이크 탐지 방법론들의 재현가능성 분석 (Reproducibility Analysis of rPPG-based Deepfake Detection Methods)
Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU)
K. Kim, C. Hwang, K. Seo, and J. Yoo. IPIU 2025, Korea.
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2024 확률적 이진마스크를 통한 강력하고 효율적인 생성모델 연합학습 (Robust and Efficient Federated Learning of Generative Models via Stochastic Binary Masks)
Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU)
K. Seo and J. Yoo. IPIU 2024, Korea.
Patents
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2024 MMD 손실함수를 이용한 이진 마스크 기반 생성 모델 연합 학습 시스템 및 이를 이용한 생성 모델 연합 학습 방법
Korea Patent Application No. 10-2024-0173205
J. Yoo, K. Seo, and D.-J. Han.
Education
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2025 - Present Ulsan, South Korea
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2023 - 2025 Ulsan, South Korea
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2016 - 2022 Incheon, South Korea
Awards
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2026 Silver Reviewer
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Recognized as a Silver Reviewer for ICML 2026.
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2026 Best Poster Presentation Award (우수포스터발표상)
Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU 2026)
For “가중치 공간에서의 위상-기반 모델 분류” (Heo, Seo, Yoo).
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2025 Best Poster Grand Award (우수 포스터 대상)
2025 UNIST AI Technology Open Workshop
For PRISM (ICLR 2025); advisor: Jaejun Yoo.
Experience
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2026 - 2026 Ulsan, South Korea
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to AI Programming II, UNIST
Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course Introduction to AI Programming II (Spring 2026).
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2024 - 2024 Ulsan, South Korea
Teaching Assistant
Deep Generative Models (심층생성모델), UNIST
Teaching Assistant for the graduate course Deep Generative Models (Spring 2024).
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2022 - Present Ulsan, South Korea
Graduate Researcher
Lab of Advanced Imaging Technology (LAIT), UNIST
Generative Feature Matching Network — improving performance of GFMN.
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2022 - 2022 Member
SmileGate AI Membership
Developed project originating from K-digital Hackathon.
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2022 - 2022 Participant
K-digital Hackathon
Filtering Violence Scene in Video Data — multi-modal violence detection (image + audio features).
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2022 - 2022 Trainee
Naver Boostcamp AI Tech
Completed bootcamp certification.