CV

General Information

Full Name Jiwan Kim
Email kim.jiwan@kaist.ac.kr
Affiliation Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (DSAIL), KAIST

Research Interests

  • Efficient Multimodal LLM
    • On-Device MLLM: knowledge distillation, visual token pruning & compression
    • MLLM Applications: agentic & tool-integrated MLLM, autonomous driving, VLA
  • Recommendation System
    • Multimodal recommendation (missing-modality generation)
    • LLM-based sequential recommendation

Education

  • 2026.03 - Present
    Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    • Advisor: Prof. Chanyoung Park (Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, DSAIL)
  • 2024.03 - 2026.02
    M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    • Advisor: Prof. Chanyoung Park (Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, DSAIL)
    • GPA: 4.08 / 4.3
  • 2016.03 - 2022.08
    B.S. in Statistics (major), Computer Science (double major)
    Seoul National University
    • GPA: 3.67 / 4.3 (Cum Laude)

Academic Service

  • 2026 - Present
    Conference Reviewer
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
  • 2025 - Present
    Conference Reviewer
    International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)