Minu Kim

Ph.D Candidate at OSI Lab, KAIST AI

Contact Information

Email: minu.kim@kaist.ac.kr
Phone: (+82)10-4470-9946
Github: github.com/jadehaus
Scholar: Link to Google Scholar

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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science
(2018.03. ~ 2023.02.)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences

MS/Ph.D Integrated
(2023.03. ~ Current)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI

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RESEARCH INTEREST

• Controlability & Interpretability of AI
• Preference Alignment & Personalization
• Reinforcement Learning & LLM Agent
• Neural Combinatorial Optimization

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SELECTED PAPERS

• Preference Alignment with Flow Matching

  Minu Kim, Yongsik Lee, Sehyeok Kang, Jihwan Oh, Song Chong, Se-Young Yun
  NeurIPS 2024

• DPM: Dual Preferences-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  Sehyeok Kang, Yongsik Lee, Minu Kim, Jihwan Oh, Song Chong, Se-Young Yun
  (arXiv preprint)

• Guiding Reasoning in Small Language Models with LLM Assistance

  Yujin Kim, Euiin Yi, Minu Kim, Se-Young Yun, Taehyeon Kim
  (arXiv preprint)

• Hierarchical Decomposition Framework for Feasibility-hard Combinatorial Optimization

  Hanbum Ko, Minu Kim, Han-Seul Jeong, Sunghoon Hong, Deunsol Yoon, Youngjoon Park, Woohyung Lim, Honglak Lee, Moontae Lee, Kanghoon Lee, Sungbin Lim, Sungryull Sohn
  ICML 2023 Workshop: Sampling and Optimization in Discrete Space

• ReSPack: A Large-Scale Rectilinear Steiner Tree Packing Data Generator and Benchmark

  Kanghoon Lee, Youngjoon Park, Han-Seul Jeong, Sunghoon Hong, Deunsol Yoon, Sungryull Sohn, Minu Kim, Hanbum Ko, Moontae Lee, Honglak Lee, Kyunghoon Kim, Euihyuk Kim, Seonggeon Cho, Jaesang Min, Woohyung Lim
  NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Synthetic Data for Empowering ML Research

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

Research Intern at Fundamental Research Lab, LG AI Research (2022.03. ~ 2022.08)

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PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCES

1. Web App Development Experience

   Undergraduate Course Explorer for KAIST (2021 Summer - 2023 Fall)
   graduate-kaist.herokuapp.com (Currrently out of service) Collaborators:

   • Tak Yeon Lee, PhD
     Assistant Professor, Industrial Design department, KAIST
   • Seok Hyung Bae, PhD
     Associate Professor, Industrial Design department, KAIST

2. Machine Learning Competition

   NeurIPS 2021 Competition: Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization
   UNIST-KAIST-POSTECH Datascience Contest 2021: Shale-gas Production Estimation

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HONORS & AWARDS

ICORES 2025 Best Student Paper Award
Hierarchical Decomposition Framework for Steiner Tree Packing Problem
Hanbum Ko, Minu Kim, Han-Seul Jeong, Sunghoon Hong, Deunsol Yoon, Youngjoon Park, Woohyung Lim, Honglak Lee, Moontae Lee, Kanghoon Lee, Sungbin Lim, Sungryull Sohn

NeurIPS 2021 Competition - Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization
Overall 4th place (dual task), 2nd in student leaderboard (dual task)

Talent Award of Korea(대한민국 인재상) 2016

Zayed Future Energy Prize 2016($100,000 USD) Global High School Winner

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SCHOLARSHIPS & MEMBERSHIPS

Alumni Academic Scholarship, March 2019 - December 2021 ($10,000 USD)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Republic of Korea)

Student Council of the Department of Mathematical Sciences (2019 - 2021)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Republic of Korea)

• President of Student Council, 2020
• Chairman of Emergency Committee of Student Council, Winter 2020

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TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE

Lecturer at Chungcheongbuk-do Education Research and Information Institute Gifted Education Center, Korea (Government Institute) (2024 ~ Current)
Reinforcement Learning & Generative AI

KAIST Major Course Student Tutor (2019 Fall)
Engineering Statistics II (IE341)

KAIST Basic Elective Course Student Lecturer (2020 Spring, 2021 Spring)
Introduction to Linear Algebra (MAS109)

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PATENTS

• MULTI SPRAY CONTAINER (Patent Registration Number 10-1383105-0000)
• GUIDE SYSTEM FOR BLIND PEOPLE (Patent Registration Number 10-1677485-0000)

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM EXPERIENCES

KIA Eco-Dynamics Expedition 2015 (Pokhara, Nepal)
Student Participant (January 2015)

• Educated and trained to conduct international development design projects for appropriate technology with local community members.
• Sponsored by KIA Motors UNEP National Committee for the Republic of Korea and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT D-Lab) of the United States.

Manitoba Bioinnovation Week 2017 (Manitoba, Canada)
Student Participant (September 2017)

• Designing sustainable development measures to secure food and water resources.
• Participated as guests in Agricultural Bioscience International Conference(ABIC).

CSIA Exchange Program (Camborne, UK)
Camborne Science & International Academy (July 2017)

Summer 2016 Pre-College Program (Massachusetts, US)
University of Massachusetts Amherst (July 2016)