Myungkyu Koo
Ph.D. student
KAIST AI
jameskoo0503 [AT] kaist.ac.kr
About
I am a second-year Ph.D. student at KAIST, advised by Jinwoo Shin. I received my B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at KAIST in 2024. My research focuses on advancing computer vision and robotics foundation models. From this perspective, I am especially interested in enhancing models' comprehensive world understanding through visual signals, and effectively leveraging this understanding for diverse multi-modal generation tasks. In particular, I am currently working on Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) to enable generalizable and dexterous robot manipulation.
Publications
(*: Equal Contribution, †: Equal Advising)
Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Taeyoung Kim, Jimin Lee, Myungkyu Koo, Dongyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo, Jinwoo Shin
HAMLET: Switch your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
Myungkyu Koo*, Daewon Choi*, Taeyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo†, Jinwoo Shin†
FontAdapter: Instant Font Adaptation in Visual Text Generation
Myungkyu Koo, Subin Kim, Sangkyung Kwak, Jaehyun Nam, Seojin Kim, Jinwoo Shin
Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Taeyoung Kim, Jimin Lee, Myungkyu Koo, Dongyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo, Jinwoo Shin
HAMLET: Switch your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
Myungkyu Koo*, Daewon Choi*, Taeyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo†, Jinwoo Shin†
FontAdapter: Instant Font Adaptation in Visual Text Generation
Myungkyu Koo, Subin Kim, Sangkyung Kwak, Jaehyun Nam, Seojin Kim, Jinwoo Shin
Education
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Mar. 2024 - Present
Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Jinwoo Shin
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Mar. 2018 - Feb. 2024
B.S. in Electrical Engineering (minor in Computer Science)
Magna Cum Laude
Experience
Research InternJul. 2023 - Dec. 2023
Pion CorporationUndergraduate Research InternMar. 2020 - Dec. 2020
CILAB, KAISTHonors and Awards
Recipient, Academic Excellence Award (Dean's List)Jun. 2021
Recipient, National Science & Technology ScholarshipMar. 2018 - Feb. 2024
Recipient, Hansung Scholarship for Gifted StudentsFeb. 2016