Yechan Kim — Curriculum vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Yechan Kim (Member, IEEE/ACM/AAAI) received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea, in 2026. He then joined LIG Defense&Aerospace (LIG D&A), Seongnam, Korea, where he is currently a Research Engineer in the AI R&D Team at the AI Laboratory. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, and multimodal learning, with applications to surveillance and reconnaissance.
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Multimodal Learning, Surveillance, Reconnaissance
Education
Ph.D. in EECS
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) · Advisor: Prof. Moongu Jeon
Dissertation Learning for Visual Understanding: A Data-Centric Perspective 🏅
M.S. in EECS
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) · Advisor: Prof. Moongu Jeon
Master’s Thesis Rethinking Softmax Cross Entropy for Imbalanced Image Classification
B.Ed.
College of Education in JNU
Experience
Research Engineer
LIG Defense&Aerospace - AI Laboratory (Pangyo House) · Korea
Graduate Student Researcher (Research Assistant)
GIST Machine Learning and Vision Laboratory · Korea
Selected honors
Outstanding Research Award in GIST Commencement Ceremony
President's award (Top-ranked alumnus among all EECS alumni)
Corporate-Sponsored Scholarship Awardee by LIG Defense&Aerospace
Top-ranked student in SW/AI section
Scholarship Awardee by GIST EECS
Top-ranked research scholarship recipient
Scholarship Awardee by GIST EECS
Top-ranked academic merit scholarship recipient
Scholarship Awardee by KEPCO
Representative of GIST (EECS) (1,000,000won)
Summa Cum Laude (Bachelor's Degree)
President's award (Top-ranked alumnus among all alumni)
Two Awards from the 11th and 12nd Test of Practical Competency in ICT (TOPCIT) from Ministry of Science and Technology (MST), Republic of Korea
Scholarship Awardee by Ms. Ko Chuwol, an Honorary Doctor in JNU
Recipient of the scholarship funded by Ms. Ko Chuwol, an honorary doctorate recipient in Business Administration from JNU (5,000,000won)
Scholarship Awardee by Kakao
Top-ranked student in the Kakao's Web Developer Track minor (2,000,000won)
Full-Tuition Scholarship Awarded by The Scholarship Foundation for Future Leaders
Selected for a three-year full-tuition scholarship for my bachelor course