Myungkyu Koo

About

I am a third-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 robotics foundation models. From this perspective, I am especially interested in enhancing models' comprehensive world understanding by integrating diverse modalities across vision, language, and physical feedback. Building on this, I work toward hierarchical reasoning and action prediction over long-horizon context.

Publications

(*: Equal Contribution, ^†: Equal Advising, ^§: Research Lead)

RLDX-1 Technical Report teaser

RLDX-1 Technical Report

Dongyoung Kim*^§, Huiwon Jang*^§, Myungkyu Koo*, Suhyeok Jang*, Taeyoung Kim*, et al., Jinwoo Shin^§

RLWRLD Technical Report 2026

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Modular Sensory Stream for Integrating Physical Feedback in Vision-Language-Action Models teaser

Modular Sensory Stream for Integrating Physical Feedback in Vision-Language-Action Models

Jimin Lee, Huiwon Jang, Myungkyu Koo, Jungwoo Park, Jinwoo Shin

The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2026

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HAMLET: Switch your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy teaser

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^†

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

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Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models teaser

Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models

Taeyoung Kim, Jimin Lee, Myungkyu Koo, Dongyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo^†, Jinwoo Shin^†

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026

Paper

FontAdapter: Instant Font Adaptation in Visual Text Generation teaser

FontAdapter: Instant Font Adaptation in Visual Text Generation

Myungkyu Koo, Subin Kim, Sangkyung Kwak, Jaehyun Nam, Seojin Kim, Jinwoo Shin

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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 EngineerMar. 2026 - Present

RLWRLD

Research InternJul. 2023 - Dec. 2023

Pion Corporation

Undergraduate Research InternMar. 2020 - Dec. 2020

CILAB, KAIST

Honors 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