Hyo Seo (Claudia) Kim

About Me

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! :)

Publications

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.

Education

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

Work Experiences

• 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)

Teaching Experiences

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)

Talks

• 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)

Academic Services

• Conference Reviewer: CPAL 2025

Travels

• 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)

Interests

• Computer Vision

• Object Segmentation

• Semantic Segmentation

• Weakly-Supervised Learning

• Incremental Learning

• Machine Unlearning

Skills

• Programming language: Python, Java, C

• Machine Learning tools: Pytorch, Numpy, OpenCV

• Tools: Github, Notion

Languages

• Korean: Native

• English: Fluent 

International Experiences

• 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)