Hi! I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Dynamical Inference Lab at Helmholtz Munich, hosted by Prof. Steffen Schneider.
I received my Ph.D. in KAIST AI, where I was advised by Prof. Jaegul Choo. My research focuses on trustworthy AI in terms of robustness, interpretability and controllability.
During my Ph.D., I spent time at Helmholtz Munich 🇩🇪 working with Dr. Steffen Schneider, at NAVER AI Lab 🇰🇷 working with Dr. Dongyoon Han, and at Qualcomm AI Research 🇰🇷 working with Dr. Sungha Choi. I also studied at Carnegie Mellon University 🇺🇲 as a visiting scholar. In 2021, I obtained B.S. in Computer Science at Korea University.
Contact:
hyesulim dot ac at gmail dot com
Feel free to reach me out :)
NEW (Mar 2026) New preprint! Check out "VisualScratchpad: Grounding Visual Concepts in Large Vision Language Models". [📑 arxiv] [website & demo] [code]
NEW (Mar 2026) Starting as a postdoc at Helmholtz Munich!
NEW (Mar 2026) One paper got accepted at ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI Workshop! Preprint coming out soon.
(Dec 2025) Successfully defended my PhD! 🥳🎓
(Oct 2025) New preprint! Check out "ConceptScope: Characterizing Dataset Bias via Disentangled Visual Concepts". [📑 arxiv] [website & demo] [code]
(Sep 2025) One paper got accepted at NeurIPS 2025! Preprint coming out soon.
(Jul 2025) New preprint! Check out "CytoSAE: Interpretable Cell Embeddings for Hematology". [📑 pre-print]
(Jul 2025) Selected as a student volunteer at MICCAI 2025, held in Deajeon, South Korea, from Sept 23 to 27, 2025.
(Jun 2025) Gave an invited talk at DSLAB at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP). Thanks for inviting me!
(May 2025) One paper got accepted at MICCAI 2025! Preprint coming out soon.
(Jan 2025) One paper got accepted at ICLR 2025, see you in Singapore!
(Dec 2024) New preprint! Check out "Sparse autoencoders reveal selective remapping of visual concepts during adaptation" (Lim et al., 2024) [🔗 website & 🤗 demo] [📑 pre-print]
(Oct 2024) Joined NAVER AI Lab as a research intern.
(Sep 2024) One paper got accepted at NeurIPS 2024, see you in Vancouver!
(Jul 2024) Started Summer Institute Programme at Helmholtz Munich, supported by NRF/DAAD scholarship.
(Dec 2023) One paper got accepted at NeurIPS 2023 Workshop (Distshift), see you in New Orleans!
(Aug 2023) Started a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, supported by IITP scholarship.
(Jan 2023) One paper got accepted at ICLR 2023, see you in Kigali!
(Feb 2022) Joined Qualcomm AI Research as a research intern.
(Aug 2021) One paper got accepted at EMNLP 2021, see you in Punta Cana!
(Mar 2021) Started M.S. & Ph.D. integrated courses at KAIST AI
(Feb 2021) Obtained B.S. from Korea University as a valedictorian, ranking first in the College of Informatics