• Ph.D. Candidate (Mar. 2023 ~ Present)

School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Daejeon, Republic of Korea 

Advisor: Yong Man Ro

• B.S. (Mar. 2017 ~ Feb. 2023)

School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University

Seoul, Republic of Korea 

Thesis: Color Constancy Using Phase Information of AC Light Sources (Advised by Prof. Jong-Ok Kim)

7.   Robust Grounding with MLLMs against Occlusion and Small Objects via Language-Guided Semantic Cues

Beomchan Park*, Seongho Kim*, Hyunjun Kim, Sungjune Park, Yong Man Ro (*: equally contributed.)

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing  (ICASSP), 2026

6.   Language-guided Learning for Object Detection Tackling Multiple Variations in Aerial Images

Sungjune Park, Hyunjun Kim, Beomchan Park, Yong Man Ro

Under Review [paper]

5.   Phantom of Latent for Large Language and Vision Models

Byung-Kwan Lee, Sangyun Chung, Chae Won Kim, Beomchan Park, Yong Man Ro

Technical Report [paper]

4.   TroL: Traversal of Layers for Large Language and Vision Models

Byung-Kwan Lee, Sangyun Chung, Chae Won Kim, Beomchan Park, Yong Man Ro

Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024, [paper]

3.   Meteor: Mamba-based Traversal of Rationale for Large Language and Vision Models

Byung-Kwan Lee, Chae Won Kim, Beomchan Park, Yong Man Ro

Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024, [paper]

2.   MoAI: Mixture of All Intelligence for Large Language and Vision Models

Byung-Kwan Lee, Beomchan Park, Chae Won Kim, Yong Man Ro

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024, [paper]

1.   CoLLaVO: Crayon Large Language and Vision mOdel

Byung-Kwan Lee, Beomchan Park, Chae Won Kim, Yong Man Ro

Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024, [paper]

• Conference/Journal Reviewer

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2024 Workshop

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2025 Workshop

ACL ARR 2025 May

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)

IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)

• Teaching

Teaching assistant, EE.30005 Introduction to Electronics Design Lab, KAIST (2023 Fall, 2024 Spring, 2026 Spring)

Teaching assistant, EE.89907 Special Topics in Signal Processing: Multimedia Processing and Learning, KAIST (2024 Fall)

Teaching assistant, EE.40074 Introduction to Multimedia, KAIST (2025 Spring)

Teaching assistant, EE.20002 Signals and Systems, KAIST (2025 Fall)

• National Scholarship

2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

• The 31st Samsung Humantech Paper Awards

Bronze Prize (Computer Science & Engineering section)