News

[May. 2026] Our paper "Compact Merging of Vision-Language-Action Models: Shared Cores and Spectral Residuals" has been accepted to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) WiML Workshop.

[May. 2026] Our paper "Post-Hoc Merging is Not Enough: Many-Shot Model Merging with Loss-Gap Balancing" has been accepted to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

[Apr. 2026] Our paper "Fed-ADE: Adaptive Learning Rate for Federated Post-adaptation under Distribution Shift" has been selected as a Highlight paper (Top 10% of accepted papers) at the  IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

[Feb. 2026] Our paper "Fed-ADE: Adaptive Learning Rate for Federated Post-adaptation under Distribution Shift" has been accepted to the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

[Dec. 2025] Our domestic journal article "Personalized Federated Post-training for Real-time Adaptation to Label Distribution Shifts," has been chosen as the best paper in J-KICS.

[Dec. 2025] Won the Best Paper Award at the Graduation Thesis Presentation, Soongsil University.

[Nov. 2025] Won the Excellence Award of Soongsil Patent Competition, Soongsil University.

[Nov. 2025] Won the Excellence Award at the SW-Centered University Essay Contest.

[Aug. 2025] Our domestic journal article "Personalized Federated Post-training for Real-time Adaptation to Label Distribution Shifts," has been accepted to The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (J-KICS).

[Aug. 2025] Our domestic journal article "Implementation of a Real-Time Pothole Detection and Depth Estimation System Using YOLOv5 and MiDaS with User Alert Functionality," has been accepted to The Journal of the Korea Contents Association.

[Aug. 2025] Our domestic conference paper "FIM-based Personalized Federated Post-training Solution Robust to Data Distribution Shift" has been chosen as the best paper in KCC.

[Jul. 2025] Our domestic conference paper "FIM-based Personalized Federated Post-training Solution Robust to Data Distribution Shift" has been presented to Korea Computer Congress (KCC).

[Apr. 2025] Our domestic conference paper "Federated Post-training for Personalized Client Models" has been presented to the Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI).

Education

Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea

• M.S., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Sep. 2026 -) 

Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 

• B.S., School of AI Convergence (Mar. 2022 - Aug. 2026) 

Top AI/CS Conference Proceedings

• Kyungjin Im, Heewon Park, Minhae Kwon, "Compact Merging of Vision-Language-Action Models: Shared Cores and Spectral Residuals" International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) WiML Workshop, July 2026.

• Kyungjin Im*, Miru Kim*, Chanin Eom*, Minhae Kwon, “Post-Hoc Merging is Not Enough: Many-Shot Model Merging with Loss-Gap Balancing”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2026. (*equal contribution) (BK21+ IF:4, Acceptance rate: 26.6%)

• Heewon Park*, Mugon Joe*, Miru Kim*, Kyungjin Im, Minhae Kwon, “Fed-ADE: Adaptive Learning Rate for Federated Post-adaptation under Distribution Shift,” IEEE/CVF  Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2026. (*equal contribution) (Highlight Paper- Top 10% of accepted papers) (BK21+ IF:4)

• Kyungjin Im, Somin Im, Minhae Kwon, Anonymous submission – In Context Learning, Top AI Conference, under review.

• Heewon Park*, Kyungjin Im*, Minhae Kwon, Anonymous submission –VLA merging, Top AI Conference, under review.

Domestic Journal Articles

• Kyungjin Im, Heewon Park, Miru Kim, Mugon Joe, Minhae Kwon, “Personalized Federated Post-training for Real-time Adaptation to Label Distribution Shifts,” Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (J-KICS), vol.50, no.12, pp.1811-1821, Dec 2025. (Best Paper Award)

• Jiyun lee, Yunseo Heo, Kyungjin Im, Jiwon Seo, Iksu Kim, “Implementation of a Real-Time Pothole Detection and Depth Estimation System Using YOLOv5 and MiDaS with User Alert Functionality,” Journal of the Korea Contents Association, vol.25, no.11, pp.1-12, Nov 2025.

Domestic Conference Proceedings

• Kyungjin Im, Heewon Park, Miru Kim, Mugon Joe, Minhae Kwon, “FIM-based Personalized Federated Post-training Solution Robust to Data Distribution Shift,” Korea Computer Congress (KCC), July 2025. (Best Paper Award) [Video]

• Kyungjin Im, Heewon Park, Miru Kim, Minhae Kwon, “Federated Post-training for Personalized Client Models,” the Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI), July 2025. [Video]

Software Registrations

• Kyungjin Im, Heewon Park, Miru Kim, Minhae Kwon, "Personalized Federated Learning System with Parameter Alignment and Contribution-weighted Model Update," Korea Copyright Commission, Sep 5, 2025. (Registration no. C-2025-035247)

• Kyungjin Im, Heewon Park, Miru Kim, Minhae Kwon, "Federated Learning System Utilizing a Pretrained Model Trained in an Imbalanced Data Label Distribution Environment," Korea Copyright Commission, Aug 12, 2025. (Registration no. C-2025-030852)

• Kyungjin Im, Heewon Park, Miru Kim, Minhae Kwon, "Personalized Federated Learning System Considering Data Bias with Weight Adjustment," Korea Copyright Commission, Aug 12, 2025. (Registration no. C-2025-030850)

• Kyungjin Im, Heewon Park, Miru Kim, Minhae Kwon, "Decentralized Training System with Local Data," Korea Copyright Commission, Aug 12, 2025. (Registration no. C-2025-030851)

• Kyungjin Im, Heewon Park, Miru Kim, Minhae Kwon, "Robust Personalized Federated Post-Training System for Imbalanced Data Environments," Korea Copyright Commission, Aug 12, 2025. (Registration no. C-2025-030853)

Awards

Best Paper Award, J-KICS (2025)

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences

Best Paper Award, KCC (2025)

• Korea Computer Congress Conference

Best Paper Award, Soongsil University (2025)

• Graduation Thesis Presentation

Excellence Award, Soongsil University (2025)

• Soongsil Patent Competition

Excellence Award, National Program of Excellence in Software (2025)

• SW-Centered University Essay Contest

Scholarships

National Science and Engineering Excellence Scholarship (2022)

• Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF)

Contact 

 [kyungjin DOT im03 AT gmail DOT com]