Kim Minu
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Kim Minu

Google Scholar ID: w92yIbUAAAAJ
KAIST
Machine Learning
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Resume
Academic Achievements
  • - Publications:
  • - Preference Alignment with Flow Matching (NeurIPS 2024)
  • - DPM: Dual Preference-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (arXiv preprint)
  • - Guiding Reasoning in Small Language Models with LLM Assistance (arXiv preprint)
  • - Hierarchical Decomposition Framework for Steiner Tree Packing Problem (ICORES 2025, Best Student Paper Award)
  • - Hierarchical Decomposition Framework for Feasibility-hard Combinatorial Optimization (ICML 2023 Workshop)
  • - ReSPack: A Large-Scale Rectilinear Steiner Tree Packing Data Generator and Benchmark (NeurIPS 2022 Workshop)
  • - Awards:
  • - ICORES 2025 Best Student Paper Award
  • - NeurIPS 2021 Competition - Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization: Overall 4th place (dual task), 2nd in student leaderboard (dual task)
  • - Talent Award of Korea 2016
  • - Zayed Future Energy Prize 2016 Global High School Winner ($100,000 USD)
Research Experience
  • - Research Intern at Fundamental Research Lab, LG AI Research (2022.03 - 2022.08)
Education
  • - Bachelor of Science: 2018.03 - 2023.02, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
  • - MS/Ph.D Integrated: 2023.03 - Present, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI
Background
  • - Research Interests: Controllability and interpretability of LLM agents
  • - Professional Field: Theoretical foundations, reinforcement learning, preference alignment, and personalization
  • - Brief Introduction: As a theory-based practitioner, approaches controllability and interpretability as fundamentally mathematical concepts, aiming to formalize and guarantee these properties in reinforcement learning settings.
Miscellany
  • - Scholarships & Memberships:
  • - Alumni Academic Scholarship (March 2019 - December 2021, $10,000 USD)
  • - Member of the Student Council of the Department of Mathematical Sciences (2019 - 2021)
  • - President of Student Council (2020)
  • - Chairman of Emergency Committee of Student Council (Winter 2020)
  • - Teaching & Mentoring Experiences:
  • - Lecturer at Chungcheongbuk-do Education Research and Information Institute Gifted Education Center (2024 - Present)
  • - KAIST Major Course Student Tutor (2019 Fall): Engineering Statistics II (IE341)
  • - KAIST Basic Elective Course