Kyeongseon (Ella) Kim김경선

Ph.D. Student, School of Computing, KAIST

Kyeongseon Kim smiling between bookshelves

About

I am a Ph.D. student in the School of Computing at KAIST. I work with Prof. Tae-Hyun Oh in the AMI Lab.

I study how multimodal models and agents understand abstract and structured visual representations, including vector graphics, interfaces, and symbols. I investigate how visual form encodes meaning, how interaction reveals information, and how cultural context shapes model responses.

Before my Ph.D., I was a research scientist at POSTECH, a research engineer at LG Electronics, and an AI education manager at Upstage, the company behind the Solar LLM. I founded and organize AGI Korea (formerly TensorFlow Korea), an AI community of 66,000+ members.

Research

Research map: three lines (Abstract Visuals, Benchmarks, Perception) connecting mEOL, IGG, CuPS, SVHalluc, and Zero-shot Depth Completion Abstract Visuals Benchmarks Perception mEOL WACV ’26 vector graphics IGG EMNLP ’26 GUIs CuPS ICML-W ’26 emoji & gestures SVHalluc CVPR ’26 Depth Completion AAAI ’25 Research map: three lines (Abstract Visuals, Benchmarks, Perception) connecting mEOL, IGG, CuPS, SVHalluc, and Zero-shot Depth Completion Perception Benchmarks Abstract Visuals Depth Completion AAAI ’25 SVHalluc CVPR ’26 mEOL WACV ’26 vector graphics IGG EMNLP ’26 GUIs CuPS ICML-W ’26 emoji & gestures

Publications* equal contribution

2026
EMNLP 2026 Main
IGG: A Benchmark for Interactive GUI Grounding under Visibility Constraints
K. S. Kim*, J. Son*, T.-H. Oh
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Also presented at ICML 2026 Workshop on Compositional Learning: Safety, Interpretability, and Agents
IGG overview: screenshot-only target revelation and three visibility constraint types
CVPR 2026
SVHalluc: Benchmarking Speech–Vision Hallucination in Audio-Visual Large Language Models
C. Zhang, K. S. Kim, C. Liu, T.-H. Oh
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
SVHalluc teaser: ambient sound benchmarks versus speech-induced hallucination
WACV 2026
mEOL: Training-Free Instruction-Guided Multimodal Embedder for Vector Graphics and Image Retrieval
K. S. Kim, S.-E. Baek, J.-M. Lee, T.-H. Oh
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
Round 1 paper (6.4% acceptance rate)
Best Student Presentation Award, IPIU 2025
Also presented at ICCV 2025 Workshop on Graphic Design Understanding and Generation (GDUG)
mEOL overview: semantic SVG module, zero-shot multimodal embedding, and text-to-image or SVG retrieval
ICML 2026 Workshop
CuPS: Measuring Cultural Preference Signatures in LLM/VLM Agents and Their Steering by Profile Memories
K. S. Kim, G. Kim, J. Chang, H. Kim, T.-H. Oh
Workshop on Culture × AI: Evaluating AI as a Cultural Technology
2025
AAAI 2025
Zero-shot Depth Completion via Test-time Alignment with Affine-invariant Depth Prior
H. Lee, K. S. Kim, B.-K. Kwon, T.-H. Oh
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2025 winning paper
Test-time alignment of sparse depth with an affine-invariant depth prior
2019
Applied Sciences 2019
Personalized Online Live Video Streaming Using Softmax-Based Multinomial Classification
K. S. Kim, D. Kwon, J. Kim, A. Mohaisen
Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 11, Article 2297
ICAIIC 2019
Hardness on Style Transfer Deep Learning for Rococo Painting Masterpieces
K. S. Kim, D. Kim, J. Kim
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication
2018
ICUFN 2018
Detecting Selfish Backoff Attack in IEEE 802.15.4 CSMA/CA Using Logistic Classification
J. Kim, K. S. Kim
International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
IEEE SECON 2018
Recipient-oriented Transaction for Preventing Double Spending Attacks in Private Blockchain
H. Lee, M. Shin, K. S. Kim, Y. Kang, J. Kim
IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking
IEEE ICASSP 2018
Self-Adaptive Machine Learning Operating Systems for Security Applications
K. S. Kim, D. Kwon, Y. Kim, J. Kim, J. Kim
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

Education

KAIST, Ph.D. in Computing
Advisor: Prof. Tae-Hyun Oh. Supported by a Korean Government-Funded Scholarship.
2024 - Present
Chung-Ang University, M.S. in Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. Joongheon Kim (now at Korea University)
2017 - 2019
Chung-Ang University, B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
2013 - 2017

Experience

POSTECH, AI Research Scientist in Prof. Tae-Hyun Oh’s lab
2023 - 2024
Upstage, AI Contents and Education Manager
The company behind the Solar LLM. Led the AI Pack User Guide project.
2022
LG Electronics, CTO Office AI Lab, AI Research Engineer
On a team led by Prof. Joseph Lim (USC).
  • Scene graph generation
  • Floor plan generation for object placement, with LG Toronto AI Lab
  • Driver action recognition system for Hyundai and Daimler
2020 - 2022
EASYWUM, Tech Lead at a smart IoT indoor-garden startup
2016 - 2017

Community

AGI Korea (formerly TensorFlow Korea), Founder and Organizer, Board Member
An AI community of 66,000+ members.
2020 - Present
Google TensorFlow User Group (TFUG), Global Organizer
2020 - Present
TensorFlow Everywhere, Global General Organizer
2021
Naver Boostcamp AI Tech (with Upstage), Organizer and Mentor
2021 - 2022
Software Maestro, Mentor
Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea
2022 - 2024
AI Weekly arXiv (Korea), Moderator
2022 - 2025
PR12 Paper Reading Group
2019 - Present

Awards

Korean Government-Funded Scholarship, Ph.D. Program, KAIST
2025 - Present
Best Student Presentation Award, IPIU, for mEOL (WACV 2026)
2025

Talks

AI Talk for High School Sophomores and Juniors, Jeonbuk Science High School
2023
AI Community Organizing, MODUCON at Yonsei University (Lab for Everyone)
2022
What’s New in TF 2.4, Keynote at TensorFlow Everywhere Korea (Google)
2021
Entrance Ceremony Speech, Seoul High School
2021
AI Talk for High School Sophomores and Juniors, Hanseong Science High School
2021
TF-based Deep Learning Programming, 1st KICS Lecture
2018
Deep Learning: Algorithms, Software, and Systems, POSCO ICT
2017
AI Fundamentals, KT Education Center
2017

Teaching

Deep Learning Project Management Process, Lecturer at Naver Boostcamp AI Tech
2022
SW Health Contents Development, Lecturer at the College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University
2018
Mobile Application Development, TA & Lecturer
2017, 2018
Programming Language, TA
2017

Patents

Method and Apparatus for Guiding a Recommended Parking Location
KR 10-1894314. Granted. Technology transferred in Nov. 2024.
Method and System for Video Streaming Service
KR 10-2019-0005307
Recipient-oriented Transaction Verification Method and Apparatus for Preventing Double Spending
KR 10-2018-0089040
Proof-of-Probability (PoP) based Blockchain Compensation Method and Apparatus
KR 10-2018-0089039