AI RESEARCHER / KAIST CILAB

Hee-Seon Kim

김희선 · Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering

Exploring the boundaries of
vision, language, and trust.

I study the robustness and safety of large vision-language models: where they fail, why they fail, and how we can better evaluate them. My work also spans video understanding and efficient model adaptation.

Portrait of Hee-Seon Kim

Hi, I’m Hee-Seon!

KAIST CILab

CURRENTLY EXPLORINGMultimodal safetyLVLM robustnessAdversarial evaluation

01 / RESEARCH

A few things I’ve been working on.

questions → experiments → papers

Recent work on multimodal robustness, alongside selected work in video and computer vision.

All publications 12
2026

Safety in Batches? Understanding and Mitigating Safety Failures in Batch Prompting

Kihyun Kim, Hee-Seon Kim, Wonjun Lee, Changick Kim

AACL-IJCNLP 2026 · Main

02 / A LITTLE BACKGROUND

Behind the research.

I’m a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at KAIST, working in the Computational Intelligence Lab.

My current focus is large vision-language models, with a particular interest in adversarial robustness and multimodal safety.

EXPERIENCE

AUG 2025 — FEB 2026

AI Research Intern

NAVER Cloud

EDUCATION

MAR 2023 — PRESENT

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

KAIST · In progress

MAR 2021 — FEB 2023

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

KAIST

MAR 2017 — FEB 2021

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

UNIST

LET’S CONNECT

Good research starts
with a conversation.

hskim98@kaist.ac.kr