Biography
Greetings 🤗! I'm a graduate student at the
Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence
at
Seoul National University, under the supervision of
Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang.
Previously, I received my Bachelor's Degree from
Sogang University
in Computer Science.
My research focuses on developing machine learning algorithms to build robust Physical Intelligence systems through multimodal learning. I study how embodied agents explore, adapt, and continuously refine their actions in dynamic real-world environments. My goal is to move beyond conventional Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and build agents that can learn and explore efficiently in the wild, generalize across diverse tasks, and act in interpretable, reliable, and human-aligned ways.
I recently joined
as a Research Scientist Intern, where I explore embodied intelligence and its application to real-world agents.
Previously, I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at
and co-founded
OCONNECT with my CNSH colleagues.
Education
Publication
2026
RAIN: Robotic Task Generalization with Region-Aware Interaction Networks
* , Kyuhwan Shim* , * , Seung-Hwan Kim , Sihaeng Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang , Sunghoon Lim , Gunhee Lee (* co-first authorship)
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2026 . (Under Review)
Making Your Action Policies Interpretable: Mixture of Action Queries
Suhyung Choi , Youngseok Joo , Hyundo Lee , Kyuhwan Shim , Kisung Shin , Chungwoo Lee , Minjeong Gu , Jun Ki Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang
Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents Workshop @ CVPR 2026
AI4GOOD Workshop @ ICML 2026
.
ESPADA: Execution Speedup via Semantics Aware Demonstration Data Downsampling for Imitation Learning
Byungju Kim , Pahk Jinu , Chungwoo Lee , Jaejoon Kim , Jangha Lee , Theo Taeyeong Kim , Kyuhwan Shim , Jun Ki Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2026 .
2025
CLIP-RT : Learning Language-Conditioned Robotic Policies from Natural Language Supervision
Gi-Cheon Kang* , Junghyun Kim* , Kyuhwan Shim , Jun Ki Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang (* co-first authorship)
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 (Oral Presentation)
3rd Workshop on Language and Robot Learning (LangRob) @ CoRL 2024
.
2024
Stochastic Trajectory Diversification for Language-based Robot Action Learning
Junghyun Kim* , Gi-Cheon Kang* , Kyuhwan Shim , Jun Ki Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang (* co-first authorship)
Korea Software Congress 2024 .
Excellent Presentation Award
Scaling Language-Conditioned Policies with Fast and Lightweight Architectures
Junghyun Kim* , Gi-Cheon Kang* , Kyuhwan Shim , Eungseo Kim , Jun Ki Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang (* co-first authorship)
Korea Computer Congress 2024 .
Excellent Presentation Award
Generalizing Language-Conditioned Robotic Policies via Large Language Models
Junghyun Kim* , Gi-Cheon Kang* , Kyuhwan Shim , Eungseo Kim , Jun Ki Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang (* co-first authorship)
Korea Computer Congress 2024 .
Excellent Presentation Award
KIRINO: An Interactive Chatbot System for User Persona
* , * , * , Kyuhwan Shim* , Myoung-Wan Koo (* co-first authorship)
Korea Computer Congress 2024
Sogang Convergence Technology Competition
.
Excellence Paper Award
Official Link
Paper
Slides
Poster
Experience
Research Experience
Teaching Experience
@ Seoul Nat’l University
Work Experience
Assisted in developing ONESTEP, an easy-insert socket.
Awards
@ Team TIDYBOY
- 🥉 3rd Place in DSPL League
- 🥈 2nd Place in OPL League
@ SNU GSDS & Google ExploreCSR
@ Samsung AI Challenge 2023
Camera Invariant Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation
@ LG Aimers
Smart Factory Product Quality Status Classification
@ Gangseo-gu Data Contest
Risk Rating Model for Small Business Owners using the Credit Rating Model
Sogang People
@ BIG CONTEST 2022
Jeju Island Travel Route Recommender System for Eco-Friendly & Gen-MZ @ BIGCONTEST Innovation League
Recent projects
Camera Invariant Domain Adaptation
Risk Rating Model for Small Business Owners (Winner)
Jeju Island Travel Route Recommender System for Eco-Friendly & Gen-MZ (Winner)
LG Aimers 2 : Data Intelligence
News
MoAQ Accepted to CVPR & ICML 2026 Workshops
May 1, 2026
'Making Your Action Policies Interpretable: Mixture of Action Queries' was accepted to the Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents Workshop @ CVPR 2026 and the AI4GOOD Workshop @ ICML 2026.
ESPADA Accepted to IEEE RA-L
Dec 9, 2025
'ESPADA: Execution Speedup via Semantics Aware Demonstration Data Downsampling for Imitation Learning' was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Preprint available on arXiv.
Research Scientist Intern @ LG AI Research
Nov 1, 2025
Joining LG AI Research as a Research Scientist Intern in the Physical Intelligence Lab.
CLIP-RT Accepted to RSS 2025 (Oral Presentation)
Apr 5, 2025
Our paper CLIP-RT was accepted to Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 as an oral presentation. The paper introduces a novel vision-language-action framework that enables robotic policies to be trained using natural language supervision.
CLIP-RT Accepted to LangRob@CoRL 2024
Oct 19, 2024
Our paper was accepted to the Third Workshop on Language and Robot Learning (LangRob) at CoRL 2024. The work presents a new approach to training language-conditioned robotic policies through natural language supervision.
RoboCup@Home 2024 – 2nd & 3rd Place in OPL and DSPL
Jul 21, 2024
Our team, TIDYBOY, won 🥈2nd place in the Open Platform League (OPL) and 🥉3rd place in the Domestic Standard Platform League (DSPL) at RoboCup@Home 2024, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The competition emphasized integrated perception, planning, and manipulation in a domestic environment.
Contact Information
Email: kyuhwan.shim@snu.ac.kr
Location: Bldg. #303, Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea (08826)
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