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2026

August
Four papers got accepted at CIKM 2026 (2 x Research Track, 1 x Applied Research Track, 1 x Short Paper Track).
August
Our paper "Physics-Embedded Graph Neural Operator for Interaction-Controlled Colloidal Aggregation" received the Best Paper Award at KDD 2026 Workshop on Reliable Scientific Foundation Models.
August
Our paper "Personalize-then-Store: Benchmarking and Learning Personalized Memory for Long-Horizon Agents" received the Best Paper Award at KDD 2026 Workshop on Personal Intelligence in the Agentic AI Era (PILA).
August
Ilho Shin and Hyunchul Kim ranked 1st in Task 2: Contextualized Early Detection of Depression at CLEF eRisk 2026.
June
Eleven undergraduate interns joined our lab.
June
Two papers got accepted at ECCV 2026.
May
Six papers got accepted at ICML 2026 Workshop (3 x AI for Science, 1 x CATS, 1 x FAGEN, 1 x GenBIO).
May
Two papers got accepted at KDD 2026 (1 x Research Track and 1 x AI for Science Track).
May
Five papers got accepted at ICML 2026.
April
A paper got accepted by ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.
April
We won the 2026 Google Research award for our research "Coordinate-Invariant Neural Operators for Geometry-Transferable 3D PDE Solving."
April
We are looking for interns to join our group during this Summer break (8 weeks).
Click here for more detail (Due date:May. 7). Apply through the official link and send an email to cy.park (at) kaist.ac.kr with your CV and transcript to confirm that you have submitted your application.
April
A paper got accepted at ACL 2026 (Main).
April
Wonjoong Kim started a research internship at Microsoft Research Asia.
March
Prof. Park will be organizing KDD'26 Workshop on SciSoc Agents & LLMs.
March
A paper got accepted by Water Research.
March
Kibum Kim started a research internship at Huawei UK Research Centre, London, United Kingdom.
March
Six papers got accepted at ICLR 2026 Workshop (1 x AI and Partial Differential Equations (Oral), 3 x AI4Mat, 1 x AI with Recursive Self-Improvement, 1 x Generative and Experimental Perspectives for Biomolecular Design).
February
Namkyeong Lee received the KAIST Presidential Best Ph.D. Thesis Award for his dissertation “Understanding Science through the Lens of AI.”
January
Three papers got accepted at ICLR 2026.
January
A paper got accepted at SSAC 2026 (MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference).
January
A paper got accepted at WWW 2026.

2025

December
Nine undergraduate interns joined our lab.
December
Prof. Park received the 2025 KAIST College of Engineering Impact Research Award.
November
Sangwoo Seo started as a visiting Ph.D student at Yale University, USA, hosted by Prof. Rex Ying
November
A paper got accepted at AAAI 2026.
October
We are looking for interns to join our group during this Winter break (8 weeks).
Click here for more detail (Due date:Nov. 6). Apply through the official link and send an email to cy.park (at) kaist.ac.kr with your CV and transcript to confirm that you have submitted your application.
October
Three papers got accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop (Workshop on Efficient Reasoning, AI for Science, and Reliable ML from Unreliable Data).
October
Namkyeong Lee started a research internship at Genentech, USA.
September
Three papers got accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (including 1 Spotlight).
August
Two papers got accepted at EMNLP 2025 (1 Main and 1 Findings).
August
Kibum Kim started as a visiting Ph.D student at University of California San Diego, USA, hosted by Prof. Julian McAuley
July
Prof. Park will serve as a General Co-Chair of CIKM 2025, which will be held in Seoul, Korea.
June
A paper got accepted at ICCAD 2025.
June
Ten undergraduate interns joined our lab.
June
Yeonjun In started a research internship at Adobe Research, USA.
May
Two papers got accepted at KDD 2025 (February Cycle).
May
Two papers got accepted at ICML 2025.
April
We are looking for interns to join our group during this Summer break (8 weeks).
April
Two papers got accepted at SIGIR 2025.
March
Two papers got accepted at ICLR 2025 Workshop on Machine Learning for Genomics Explorations (MLGenX) (including 1 Spotlight).
February
Prof. Park has been honored with the Song-Am Distinguished Research Award, which recognizes assistant professors in the College of Engineering at KAIST with outstanding research achievements within their first five years of employment.
January
Three papers got accepted at ICLR 2025 (including 1 Oral).
January
Two papers got accepted at NAACL 2025 (1 Main and 1 Findings).
January
Sein Kim started as a visiting Ph.D student at University of California San Diego, USA, hosted by Prof. Julian McAuley

2024

December
Ten undergraduate interns joined our lab.
December
A paper got accepted at AAAI 2025.
November
Two papers got accepted at KDD 2025 (August Cycle).
October
We are looking for interns to join our group during this Winter break (8 weeks).
October
Junseok Lee received KAIST Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award for his paper "Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data Imputation Using Bi-level Feature Propagation" published in Briefings in Bioinformatics. Congratulations!
October
A paper got accepted at WSDM 2025 (Oral).
October
A paper got accepted at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on AI for New Drug Modalities (AIDrugX).
September
A paper got accepted at NeurIPS 2024.
September
Namkyeong Lee started a research internship at Genentech, USA.
August
Our paper "Subgraph Federated Learning for Local Generalization" received the Best Paper Award at KDD 2024 Workshop on Federated Learning for Data Mining and Graph Analytics (FedKDD).
August
Our paper "Interpretable Graph Model with Prototype-Based Graph Information Bottleneck" received the Best Paper Award at KDD 2024 Workshop on Human-Interpretable AI.
July
Two papers got accepted at CIKM 2024.
July
Two papers got accepted at ECCV 2024.
July
Junseok Lee started as a visiting Ph.D student at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), USA, hosted by Prof. Yejin Kim.
June
Kanghoon Yoon started a research internship at Qualcomm AI, USA.
June
Hyunsung Kim joined our lab and will be pursuing a Ph.D degree starting from Fall 2024.
June
Hongseok Kang and Jimin Seo joined our lab and will be pursuing a Master's degree starting from Fall 2024.
June
Eight undergraduate interns joined our lab.
May
Two papers got accepted at KDD 2024.
May
A paper got accepted at ICML 2024.
April
We are looking for interns to join our group during this Summer break (8 weeks).
April
A paper got accepted at Briefings in Bioinformatics.
April
Yeonjun In started a research internship at Adobe Research, USA.

2023

March
A paper got accepted at WWW 2024 Workshop on Data-centric Artificial Intelligence (DCAI).

2024

February
A paper got accepted at CVPR 2024.
January
Congratulations! Sangwoo Seo and Sungwon Kim received Gold Prize at the 30th Samsung Humantech Paper Award.
Sangwoo Seo and Sungwon Kim received Gold Prize at the 30th Samsung Humantech Paper Award for their paper Interpretable Prototype-based Graph Information Bottleneck published in NeurIPS 2023. The Gold Prize is given to only one paper in Computer Science & Engineering area every year.
January
Two papers got accepted at WWW 2024.
January
A paper got accepted at ICLR 2024.
January
Prof. Park received 2023 Technology Innovation Awards of College of Engineering, KAIST.

2023

December
Sungwon Kim, Wonjoong Kim, and Seungyoon Choi will be pursuing a Ph.D degree starting from Spring 2024.
December
Hyunchul Kim, Jiwan Kim, and Hoyoung Choi joined our lab and will be pursuing a Master's degree starting from Spring 2024.
December
Ten undergraduate interns joined our lab.
December
A paper got accepted at AAAI 2024.
October
Two papers got accepted at NeurIPS 2023 workshop on AI for Scientific Discovery: From Theory to Practice (AI4Science).
September
Two papers got accepted at NeurIPS 2023.
September
Namkyeong started as a visiting Ph.D student at Sunlab @ UIUC .
August
Three papers (1 Long, 2 Short) got accepted at CIKM 2023.
July
Our paper "Single-cell RNA-seq data imputation using Feature Propagation" received the Best Paper Award at ICML 2023 Workshop on Computational Biology [Link].
June
Kibum Kim, Yeonjun In, and Yunhan Oh will be pursuing a Ph.D degree starting from Fall 2023.
June
Nine undergraduate interns joined our lab (Hyunchul Kim, Sangwu Park, Seokwon Han, Jinhyeok Park, Hyewon Ryu, Sangmin Park, Seoung Choi, Geonwoo Kim, Jiwan Kim).
June
Prof. Park gave a tutorial at 2023 KCC on 그래프 신경망 기반 화학/소재분야 연구 동향 [Slide].
June
Two papers got accepted at ICML 2023 Workshop on Computational Biology.
May
A paper got accepted at Bioinformatics.
May
Four papers got accepted at KDD 2023.
April
A paper got accepted at ICML 2023.
April
A paper got accepted at SIGIR 2023.
March
A paper got accepted at ICLR 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Materials (ML4Materials).
February
Prof. Park received KAIST Excellence in Teaching Award of Year 2022.
January
Prof. Park received Best Teaching Award from ISysE, KAIST

2022

December
Namkyeong Lee and Junseok Lee will be pursuing a Ph.D degree starting from Spring 2023.
December
Yoonho Lee, Junghoon Kim, Junmo Lee, Jaehyeong Jeon, and Heewoong Noh joined our lab and will be pursuing a Master's degree starting from Spring 2023.
December
Nine undergraduate interns joined our lab (Seohyun Lim, Yisak Kim, Jihwan Bae, Joongchan An, Taejun Yang, Jihwan Oh, Jungwoo Lee, Sanha Jang, and Inseon Ji).
December
Namkyeong and Sein started a research internship at NAVER.
November
Two papers got accepted at AAAI 2023.
November
A paper got accepted at NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on New Frontiers in Graph Learning (GLFrontiers).
October
A paper got accepted at EMNLP 2022 (Findings).
September
A paper got accepted at ICDM 2022.
August
Prof. Park gave a tutorial at 2022 데이터베이스 소사이어티 여름학교 [Slide].
August
Three papers got accepted at CIKM 2022.
June
Sangwoo Seo, Sein Kim, and Jihyeong Jung joined our lab and will be pursuing a Ph.D/Master's degree starting from Fall 2022.
June
Nine undergraduate interns joined our lab (Heewoong Noh, Jeehong Kim, Jaehyeong Jeon, Kyuhyeok Seo, Sangmin Lee, Jinyoung Hong, Youngro Kim, Seonghun Hong, and Juheon Han).
May
A paper got accepted at KDD 2022.
April
Two papers got accepted at SIGIR 2022.

2021

December
Seven undergraduate interns joined our lab (Daeyoung Kim, Han Kim, Jongbok Lee, Junmo Lee, Suyeon Lee, Jaewon Jung, and Hoyoung Choi).
December
Wonjoong Kim, Seungyoon Choi, and Sungwon Kim joined our lab and will be pursuing a Master's degree starting from Spring 2022.
December
A paper got accepted at AAAI 2022.
September
A paper got accepted at ICDM 2021.
July
Call for Paper: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Graph representation learning: Methods and Applications).
June
Six undergraduate interns joined our lab (Junghoon Kim, Hanbit Lee, Hyemin Ju, Sujin Kim, Jihyung Jung, and Hyojun Kim).
June
Prof. Park gave a tutorial at 2021 대한산업공학회 춘계학술대회.
April
A paper got accepted at SIGIR 2021.
February
Prof. Park gave a tutorial at 2021 한국인공지능학회 동계단기강좌 [Slide].
January
A paper got accepted at WWW 2021.

2020

December
Five undergraduate interns joined our lab (Yoonho Lee, Sein Kim, Sukwon Yun, Kibum Kim, and Jaehyun Nam).
December
Namkyeong Lee, Junseok Lee, and Junyoung Ryu joined our lab and will be pursuing a Master's degree starting from Spring 2021.
November
DSAIL is open!
If you’re interested in joining our lab, send an email with your interests, CV, and transcript to cy.park (at) kaist.ac.kr.