I am an assistant professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Korea University, leading the Trustworthy AI Lab @ KU. Previously, I obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST in 2023, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Jinwoo Shin. I received my B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from KAIST in 2017. During my Ph.D. studies, I interned at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2021 (Seattle, WA) and 2022 (Bellevue, WA). I am a recipient of the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the KAIST College of Engineering in 2024, and the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea 2020 from two papers.
I am interested in broad areas of AI Safety: robustness against distribution shifts such as adversarial examples and long-tailed (rare) events; monitoring of novel or anomalous inputs; and alignment of model decisions with human values, to name a few. Ultimately, my research aims to discover (if exist) simple priors that close the gap between humans and machines, understanding why neural networks behave so differently from us and how we make such reliable yet efficient inferences.
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Email: jonghj (at) korea dot ac dot kr
Open positions: I am looking for self-motivated, curiosity-driven graduate students and undergraduate interns to join our lab. Please reach out to me via email with your CV and transcript if you are interested.
News
- Feb 2026: One paper has been accepted to CVPR 2026.
- Nov 2025: I will serve as an Area Chair for ICML 2026.
- Nov 2025: Two papers have been accepted to AAAI 2026, including one oral presentation.
- Sep 2025: One paper has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
- Aug 2025: I will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026.
- Jun 2025: One paper have been accepted to ICCV 2025.
- May 2025: One paper have been accepted to IJCAI 2025.
- Jan 2025: Two papers have been accepted to ICLR 2025, including one oral presentation.
- Nov 2024: One paper has been accepted to TMLR.
- Jul 2024: One paper has been accepted to ECCV 2024 as an oral presentation.
- Mar 2024: Trustworthy AI Lab @ KU has been launched.
- Feb 2024: I received the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the KAIST College of Engineering.
- Feb 2024: I will be joining Korea University as an assistant professor in March 2024.
- Jan 2024: One paper has been accepted to ICLR 2024.
- Sep 2023: Three papers have been accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
- Jun 2023: I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation!