KISTI — Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information Large-scale AI Research Center Division of AI and Data

People

The researchers behind KONI and our AI-for-Science mission.

Large-scale AI Research Center

Kyong-Ha Lee
Director / Principal Researcher / UST Professor
Large language models, AI for Science
kyongha@kisti.re.kr
Hanmin Jung
Principal Researcher / UST Professor
AI for Science
jhm@kisti.re.kr
Hyun Kyoo Choi
Senior Advisor
AI for Science
hkchoi@kisti.re.kr
Namgyu Kang
Principal Researcher (On Secondment of NRF)
ngkang@kisti.re.kr
Yujin Song
Staff
syj7@kisti.re.kr

AI Model Research Team

Chanuk Lim
Team Lead / Senior Researcher
LLM, Agentic AI
chanuklim@kisti.re.kr
Athiruj Poositaporn
UST Graduate Student
sLLM (smaller Large Language Model)
athiruj@kisti.re.kr
Chang-Hoo Jeong
Principal Researcher
LLM
chjeong@kisti.re.kr
Eunhui Kim
Principal Researcher / UST Associate Professor
Agentic AI, MLLM, RL
ehkim@kisti.re.kr
Gwangseon Jang
Senior Researcher
LLM training & decoding under low-resource setting
gsjang@kisti.re.kr
In-Gyu Lee
Researcher
NLP, LLM/VLM
ingyu.lee@kisti.re.kr
Jaemin Cho
Senior Researcher
MLLM
johns4378@kisti.re.kr
Juyeon Yu
UST Graduate Student
MLLM
juyeon.yu0511@kisti.re.kr
Kwang-Nam Choi
Principal Researcher (On Sabbatical Leave)
Research strategy & planning
knchoi@kisti.re.kr
Minho Lee
Principal Researcher / UST Professor
LLM
cokeman@kisti.re.kr
Yesim Selcuk
UST Graduate Student
AI for Science
yesimselcuk@kisti.re.kr

Autonomous Intelligence System Research Team

Gunwoo Lee
Team Lead / Senior Researcher
Agentic AI, LLM/VLM
gwlee@kisti.re.kr
Changmin Sung
Postdoctoral Researcher
Agentic AI
shade@kisti.re.kr
Hyun-Young Nam
Researcher
Agentic AI
hyunyoungnam@kisti.re.kr
Inah Kim
Senior Researcher
RAG, training data preprocessing
inah.kim@kisti.re.kr
Jaeyeon Byun
UST Graduate Student
Agentic AI
jy.byun@kisti.re.kr
Jiyoung Choi
Researcher
Agentic AI
jychoi@kisti.re.kr
Sang-Hwan Gwak
Senior Researcher
Agentic systems with knowledge graphs, network science
gwaksh@kisti.re.kr
Seon Heui Choi
Principal Researcher
Research strategy & planning
sunny.choi@kisti.re.kr