CV

Education, experience, awards, and skills. The PDF version is linked above.

Contact Information

Name Jihwan Kim
Professional Title Integrated M.S./Ph.D. Student, KAIST
Email jihvvan.kim@kaist.ac.kr

Professional Summary

Applied AI researcher building LLM agents and the evaluation frameworks that keep them honest. Interested in agentic task execution, multimodal and speech language models, and enterprise-grade domain-specific agents.

Experience

  • 2025 - 2026

    Seongnam, South Korea

    WBL Residency Intern
    NAVER Cloud
    • Developed a domain-specific cross-lingual RLVR data synthesis method to mitigate the multilingual performance gap.
    • Developed a comprehensive evaluation pipeline for Audio LLM performance, achieving high-fidelity assessment across both audio understanding and generation tasks.
    • Implemented multimodal benchmarking methodologies for HyperCLOVA X Omni, enhancing the technical report’s depth by validating model capabilities against industry-standard metrics.
    • Conducted analysis on current Audio LLM research literature, identifying key architectural trends and optimization opportunities for next-generation multimodal agents.
    • Contributed to the HyperCLOVA X technical report as part of a WBL project.

Education

  • 2024 - Present

    South Korea

    Integrated M.S./Ph.D.
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    Artificial Intelligence
  • 2018 - 2024

    Suwon, South Korea

    B.S.
    SungKyunKwan University
    Software Convergence

Awards

  • 2022
    Seah Haiam Scholarship
    Seah Haiam Foundation

    Selected as a recipient for three consecutive years (2022–2024) based on academic merit and future potential, recognizing a consistent track record of excellence in technology and innovation.

  • 2022
    Dean's List (Spring 2022)
    College of Software Convergence, SungKyunKwan University

    Awarded for outstanding academic excellence, ranking within the top 4% of the undergraduate student body in the College of Software Convergence.

Skills

Languages & Frameworks: Python, PyTorch, Transformers
Research: LLM Agents, Benchmark Design, Multimodal Evaluation, Speech Language Models, Retrieval, RLVR

Languages

Korean : Native speaker
English : Proficient