Jaehwi Song

I am a Ph.D. Student at KAIST, advised by Prof. Kimin Lee. My long-term vision is to build robot agents that can naturally coexist and interact with humans while autonomously reasoning, making decisions, and self-correcting their behaviors. To this end, I am focusing on Human-Robot Interaction and learning from human demonstrations to address the robot data bottleneck for training Robot Foundation Models.

I also work as a Member of Technical Staff at Config, supervised by Ph.D. Hyungmok Son and co-advised by Prof. Kimin Lee, Prof. Minjoon Seo, and Sungdong Kim.

Publications

2026

NeurIPS 2026 · Evaluations & Datasets TrackOral · Top 0.4%

HABIT: Human-Aware Behavior and Interaction Training Dataset for Robot Manipulation

Jaehwi Song, Suchae Jeong, Byeongguk Jeon, Sungdong Kim, Minjoon Seo, Hyungmok Son, Kimin Lee

Learning to collaborate, work alongside people, and respond to human guidance in a shared workspace.

Paper ↗ Project ↗

Cross-View Relations overview: correspondence, verification, and localization across multiple views of scenes and robotic tasks.

CVPR 2026

Learning Multi-View Spatial Reasoning from Cross-View Relations

Suchae Jeong*, Jaehwi Song*, Haeone Lee, Hanna Kim, Jian Kim, Dongjun Lee, Dong Kyu Shin, Changyeon Kim, Dongyoon Hahm, Woogyeol Jin, Juheon Choi, Kimin Lee

* Equal contribution

Teaching vision-language models to connect perspectives and reason about the same world across different views.

Paper ↗ Project ↗

Projects

2023–2025

KIST · Center for Artificial Intelligence 2024.12 – 2025.06

Sim2Real navigation with Go2

Developed costmap-based autonomous navigation for a quadruped robot, using omnidirectional stereo views synthesized from pinhole cameras.

Hanyang University · LRNING Lab 2024.03 – 2024.08

Adaptive thresholds for FixMatch

Explored dynamic thresholds for pseudo-label assignment, balancing sample efficiency and performance in semi-supervised learning.

LG Electronics · Hanyang IC-PBL 2024.09 – 2024.12

VOICE · Context-aware home routines

Trained a language model on situational appliance routines for a multimodal, context-aware home automation recommender.

Excellence Award · 2nd place

Personal team project 2023.01 – 2024.01

ODEUM · A portrait of musical taste

Built a music analytics platform that turns ML-based audio analysis into personalized musical taste reports.

Background

Full CV

Education

2026.09 - Present

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence

Advised by Prof. Kimin Lee

2020.03 - 2026.02

Hanyang University

B.S. (Double Major)

Information Systems & Computer Science
GPA: 4.44/4.50 (Early Graduation)

Honors & awards

CVPR 2026 Compute Transparency Champion Award
Jun. 2026

Graduate Excellence Award (Dept. Representative)
Hanyang University · Feb. 2026

Excellence Award · 2nd place
LG Electronics × Hanyang University IC-PBL Project
Dec. 2024

Academic Scholarship
Hanyang University
Fall 2024 · Fall 2021 · Spring 2021 · Fall 2020

Experience

2025.09 - 2026.08

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · RISE Lab

Research Intern

Advised by Prof. Kimin Lee

2025.07 - Present

Config

Member of Technical Staff (Full-time, since 2026.01)
Robotics Intern (2025.07 - 2025.12)

Supervisor: Ph.D. Hyungmok Son
Co-advisors: Prof. Kimin Lee, Prof. Minjoon Seo, and Sungdong Kim

2024.12 - 2025.06

KIST, Center for Artificial Intelligence

Undergraduate Intern

Advised by Ph.D. Hwasup Lim and Taekgeun Yoo

2024.03 - 2024.08

Hanyang University, LRNING Lab

Undergraduate Intern

Advised by Prof. Sungyoon Lee

2022.06 - 2024.01

Republic Of Korea AirForce (ROKAF)

Compulsory Military Service