Hyo Seo (Claudia) Kim
Ph.D. student
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
Hi! I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at Illinois Tech, advised by Prof. Ren Wang. I received my M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Sogang University, advised by Prof. Junsuk Choe. I interned at NAVER AI Lab, mentored by Dr. Dongyoon Han, and was a visiting student at Michigan State University, hosted by Prof. Sijia Liu, and at the Tübingen AI Center, hosted by Dr. Seong Joon Oh.
I am interested in developing reliable and scalable machine learning, especially in Model Editing. Feel free to reach out to chat more about this.
In addition, this is my cute dog named Star! :)
08/2025: joined Illinois Tech as a Ph.D. Student.
05/2025: 1 paper accepted to ICML 2025.
12/2024: 1 paper accepted to Pattern Recognition Letters.
10/2024: 1 paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Adaptive Foundation Models.
10/2024: started visiting research at Michigan State University (Host: Prof. Sijia Liu).
07/2024: worked as a research intern at NAVER AI Lab (Mentor: Dr. Dongyoon Han).
04/2024: 1 paper accepted to Pattern Recognition Letters.
07/2023: started visiting research at the Tübingen AI Center (Host: Dr. Seong Joon Oh).
NegMerge: Sign-Consensual Weight Merging for Machine Unlearning [PDF]
Hyo Seo Kim, Dongyoon Han*, Junsuk Choe* (* corresponding author)
ICML, 2025. (acceptance rate 26.9%)
NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Adaptive Foundation Models.
Internship project at NAVER AI Lab.
Weakly-supervised Incremental learning for Semantic segmentation with Class Hierarchy [PDF]
Hyo Seo Kim, Junsuk Choe
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2024.
Curriculum Learning with Class-label Composition for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation [PDF]
Dongjun Hwang, Hyo Seo Kim, Doyeol Baek, Hyunbin Kim, Inhye Kye, Junsuk Choe
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2025.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, USA (Aug. 2025 - now)
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
Advisor: Ren Wang
Sogang University, Seoul, Korea (Aug. 2022 - Aug. 2025)
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Junsuk Choe
Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany (Mar. 2021 - Aug. 2021)
Exchange program
Sogang University, Seoul, Korea (Feb. 2018 - Aug. 2022)
B.A. in Economics
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Graduated with Cum laude
Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University, Michigan, United States (Oct. 2024 - Apr. 2025, Host: Prof. Sijia Liu)
Research Intern, NAVER AI Lab, Seoul, Korea (Jul. 2024 - Oct. 2024, Mentor: Dr. Dongyoon Han)
Visiting Scholar, Tübingen AI Center, Tübingen, Germany (Jul. 2023 - Aug. 2023, Host: Dr. Seong Joon Oh)
Web Developer Intern, SK C&C, Seoul, Korea (Jul. 2022 - Aug. 2022)
ERP Developer Intern, LG CNS, Seoul, Korea (May 2022 - Jun. 2022)
Undergraduate Intern, Sogang BaSE Lab, Seoul, Korea (Aug. 2021 - Aug. 2022, Advisor: Prof. Sooyong Park)
QA Intern, LIKELION, Seoul, Korea (Dec. 2020 - Mar. 2021)
Sogang University of Computer Science and Engineering
CSEG321 : Introduction to Natural Language Processing - Conducted in English (Fall 2023)
CSE3080 : Data Structures - Conducted in English (Spring 2023)
CSE4120 : Fundamentals of Compiler Construction - Conducted in English (Fall 2022)
Sogang Institute of whole person education
COR1010 : Introduction to AI Programming - Python (Spring 2022)
COR1009 : Computational Thinking - Python (Spring 2020, Fall 2020)
Sogang Graduate School of AI·SW
Data Science & AI / Software Engineering / IoT / Information Security / Blockchain (Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
9th Annual International Scholar Showcase (Apr. 2025 in Michigan State University, United States)
2023 Fall Academic Conference of the ICT Platform Society (Dec. 2023 in ICT Platform Society, Korea)
BK21 Research Exchange Workshop (Dec. 2023 in Sogang University, Korea - Bronze Award)
Korea Computer Congress (Jul. 2022 in KCC, Korea)
Conference Reviewer: CPAL 2025
ICML 2025 - Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (Jul. 13 - 19, 2025 in Vancouver)
NeurIPS 2024 - The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Dec. 10 - 15, 2024 in Vancouver)
ICLR 2024 - The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (May 07 - 11, 2024 in Wien)
Computer Vision
Object Segmentation
Semantic Segmentation
Weakly-Supervised Learning
Incremental Learning
Machine Unlearning
Programming language: Python, Java, C
Machine Learning tools: Pytorch, Numpy, OpenCV
Tools: Github, Notion
Korean: Native
English: Fluent
United States: Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University (6 months)
Germany: Visiting Scholar, Tübingen AI Center (2 months)
Germany: Exchange Student, Philipps-University, Marburg (6 months)
Singapore: Elementary Student, Chatsworth International School (3 years 2 months)