Dr. Woojun Kim, who completed his doctoral research under the supervision of Professor Youngchul Sung in our department, will join the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at KAIST as an Assistant Professor, effective August 2026. Dr. Kim earned both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST and subsequently served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, where he conducted research on multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, and robotics.
Dr. Kim’s research focuses on developing learning methodologies that enable multiple intelligent agents and robots to collaborate and make effective decisions in real-world environments, with an emphasis on scalability, robustness, safety, and fairness. He has published his work in top-tier artificial intelligence conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and AAMAS, as well as leading robotics venues such as ICRA and CoRL. His research excellence has been recognized with a NeurIPS Spotlight paper, the AAMAS Best Paper Award Finalist, the ICRA Best Conference Paper Finalist and Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Finalist, and the Best Paper Award at the RSS 2025 GenAI-HRI Workshop.
In his new position at KAIST, Dr. Kim will continue to advance his research on intelligent agent and robotic collaboration powered by multi-agent systems and reinforcement learning. We wish him great success in his research and teaching endeavors.
