Junyeob Baek
Scholar

Junyeob Baek

Google Scholar ID: Nr0st_gAAAAJ
Ph.D. Student @ KAIST
Deep LearningAIWorld ModelsOpen-Endedness
Citations & Impact
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Citations
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H-index
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Publications
4
 
Co-authors
9
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • One paper accepted to ICLR 2025; one paper accepted to ICML 2024; organizer of the 2nd KAIST-Mila Prefrontal AI Workshop (with 6 invited speakers including Y. Bengio); reviewer for ICLR 2025.
Research Experience
  • Worked as a visiting student at Mila-Quebec AI Institute, collaborating with Yoshua Bengio's group and LawZero team members; prior to academia, worked for 4.5 years in industry, gaining practical experience in robotics at Syscon Robotics and AI at Makinarocks.
Education
  • First-year Ph.D. student at KAIST, supervised by Prof. Sungjin Ahn; previously received an MS from KAIST under the supervision of Prof. Sungjin Ahn.
Background
  • Research interests lie in building lifelong developmental agents, with a focus on world modeling, interpretability, open-ended learning, and the alignment problem.
Miscellany
  • Will be joining Yoshua Bengio's group at Mila as a Visiting Student this summer in Montreal, Canada.