Taeyoung Kim
Ph.D. Student
KAIST AI
taeyoungkim85 [AT] kaist.ac.kr
About
I am a second-year Ph.D. student at KAIST, advised by Jinwoo Shin. I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering (double major) at KAIST in 2024. My research interest lies in robotics foundation models for general-purpose robot manipulation. Recently, I am interested in learning robust and transferable representations that enable robots to generalize across diverse tasks, embodiments, and environments.
Publications
(*: Equal Contribution, †: Equal Advising, §: Research Lead)
RLDX-1 Technical Report
Dongyoung Kim*§, Huiwon Jang*§, Myungkyu Koo*, Suhyeok Jang*, Taeyoung Kim*, et al., Jinwoo Shin§
Technical Report, 2026
Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Taeyoung Kim, Jimin Lee, Myungkyu Koo, Dongyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo†, Jinwoo Shin†
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026
HAMLET: Switch your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
Myungkyu Koo*, Daewon Choi*, Taeyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo†, Jinwoo Shin†
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
RoboAlign: Learning Test-Time Reasoning for Language-Action Alignment in Vision-Language-Action Models
Dongyoung Kim, Sumin Park, Woomin Song, Seungku Kim, Taeyoung Kim, Huiwon Jang, Jinwoo Shin, Jaehyung Kim, Younggyo Seo
arXiv 2026
RLDX-1 Technical Report
Dongyoung Kim*§, Huiwon Jang*§, Myungkyu Koo*, Suhyeok Jang*, Taeyoung Kim*, et al., Jinwoo Shin§
Technical Report, 2026
Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Taeyoung Kim, Jimin Lee, Myungkyu Koo, Dongyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo†, Jinwoo Shin†
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026
HAMLET: Switch your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
Myungkyu Koo*, Daewon Choi*, Taeyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo†, Jinwoo Shin†
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
RoboAlign: Learning Test-Time Reasoning for Language-Action Alignment in Vision-Language-Action Models
Dongyoung Kim, Sumin Park, Woomin Song, Seungku Kim, Taeyoung Kim, Huiwon Jang, Jinwoo Shin, Jaehyung Kim, Younggyo Seo
arXiv 2026
Education
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Sep. 2024 - Present
Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Jinwoo Shin
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Mar. 2018 - Aug. 2024
B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (double major)
Cum Laude
Experience
Visiting Research FellowMar. 2026 - Present
RLWRLDHonors and Awards
1st Place in Korean LLM Leaderboard, hyunseoki/ko-en-llama2-13bOct. 2023
National Science & Technology ScholarshipMar. 2018 - Feb. 2024
Academic Excellence Award (Dean's List)Jun. 2018