Hyunwoo Kim

Hyunwoo J. Kim is an associate professor in the School of Computing (SoC) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST). He is also affiliated faculty in the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI at KAIST. Prior to the position, he led his lab at Korea University (Mar. 2019 ~ Jan. 2025). Earlier in his career, he worked at Amazon Lab126 in Sunnyvale California. In 2017, he earned the Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. minor: Statistics) under the supervision of Dr. Vikas Singh. In 2013, he completed his internship in the Machine Learning Analytics Team at Amazon in Seattle, Washington.

His main focus is machine learning and computer vision for visual understanding and he has been actively publishing at AI venues (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML etc.). Specifically, his research interests include Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Multimodal Foundation Models, Generative Models, 3D vision, Implicit Neural Representations, Graph Neural Networks, and medical imaging.

He is currently serving, or has served, as an Area Chair for CVPR 2026, CVPR 2025, CVPR 2024, ICCV 2025, ICLR 2026, ICLR 2025, and WACV 2026.