Sanghyeok Lee

CV

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Education

Ph.D. (Sep 2020 ~ Aug 2025)

M.S. & Ph.D. integrated program in Computer Science and Engineering at Korea University. (Advisor: Hyunwoo J. Kim)

Dissertation: Token Compression for Accelerating and Improving Modern Vision Architectures
GPA : 4.24 / 4.50 (97.0 / 100)
Teaching Fellow: COSE474 (Deep Learning, 2020)
Teaching Assistant: COSE361 (Artificial Intelligence, 2021-2022)

B.S. (Mar 2016 ~ Sep 2020)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering at Korea University

GPA: 4.02 / 4.50 (94.5/100)

Selected Publications
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Experience

Post Doctoral Researcher @ KAIST (Machine Learning & Vision Lab)

Sep 2025 - Present

Projects:

Media Content Summarization through Video Understanding (Oct 2025 - Present)
- Project Lead, Funded by KT, Collaboration with KT Gen AI Lab, Vision AI Team.
- Developed an audio-guided video temporal grounding model.
Research on Learning Strategies and Data Augmentation Techniques to Mitigate Dataset Bias (Sep 2025 - Nov 2025)
- Funded by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI).
- Developed lightweight video LLMs for egocentric video understanding.

Graduate Student Researcher @ Korea University (Machine Learning & Vision Lab)

Sep 2020 - Aug 2025

Projects:

Media Content Summarization through Video Understanding (Aug 2024 - Jul 2025)
- Project Lead, Funded by KT, Collaboration with KT Gen AI Lab, Vision AI Team.
- Developed video temporal grounding and LLM-based end-to-end video summarization models.
Blood Image Analysis for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases and Blood Cancers (Jul 2022 - Dec 2024)
- Project lead, Funded by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI).
- Developed malaria-infected sample classification and infected cell detection models with diverse blood image modalities (bright-field, Giemsa-stained, fluorescence, and LAMP-MS assay images)
Developing a Deep Learning–based Program for Tooth Axis Identification and Automated Orthodontic Set-Ups (Feb 2020 - Nov 2021)
- Project Lead, Funded by the Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency for SMEs (TIPA).
- Developed 3D teeth classification and object detection models, and a 3D alignment system for automated tooth axis set-up.

Initial Team Member @ Drone Laps

May 2021 - Dec 2021

Early-stage startup for Drone-Based Autonomous Maintenance Service
Sponsored by the Korea Ministry of Science and ICT ($ 70,000)
Market research, Business model design

Patents (P) & Copyright (C)

Patent

[P6] METHOD FOR PROGRESSIVE QUESTION CONDITIONING AND TOKEN FOCUSING AND APPARATUS FOR SAME

- Hyunwoo J. Kim, Minseong Bae, Sanghyeok Lee, Jongha Kim
- Korean Patent (10-2025-0210451), filed on Dec 26, 2025.

[P5] METHOD, SYSTEM, AND KIT FOR NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION USING MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MAGNESIUM PYROPHOSPHATE MICROPARTICLES

- Chaeseung Lim, Woongsik Jang, Minkyeong Choi, Seoyeon Park, Hyunwoo J. Kim, Sanghyeok Lee, Injae Kim
- Korean Patent (10-2025-0176226), filed on Nov 19, 2025.
- PCT International Patent (PCT/KR2025/019390), filed on Nov 21, 2025.

[P4] Biosensor for LAMP product detection in LAMP analysis

Chaeseung Lim, Woongsik Jang, Minkyeong Choi, Seoyeon Park, Hyunwoo J. Kim, Sanghyeok Lee, Injae Kime
Korean Patent (10-2024-0168968), filed on Nov 22, 2024.

[P3] 3D DATA AUGMENTATION METHOD USING WEIGHTED LOCAL TRANSFORMATION AND APPARATUS THEREFORE

Hyunwoo J. Kim, Sihyeon Kim, Sanghyeok Lee, Jinyoung Park
Korean Patent (10-2636217), registered on Feb 07, 2024.
U.S. Patent (No. 18/634,813), filed on Apr 12, 2024.

[P2] METHOD FOR GENERATING HIGH QUALITY VIDEO WITH PROFESSIONAL FILMING TECHNIQUES THROUGH DEEP LEARNING TECHNOLOGY BASED 3D SPACE MODELING AND POINT-OF-VIEW SYNTHESIS AND APPARATUS FOR SAME

Hyunwoo J. Kim, Sihyeon Kim, Jooyeon Kim, Sanghyeok Lee
Korean Patent (10-2593135), registered on Oct 19, 2023.

[P1] METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR READ-ONLY PROMPT LEARNING

Hyunwoo J. Kim, Jinyoung Park, Joonmyung Choi, Sanghyeok Lee, Dongjun Lee, Seokwon Song, Jihee Suh
Korean Patent (10-2563550), registered on Aug 7, 2023.

[C1] EfficientViM (Efficient Vision Mamba for Computer Vision)

Sanghyeok Lee, Joonmyung Choi, Hyunwoo J. Kim

Presentations or Talks

[2] Token Reductions for Efficient Vision Transformers
Invited talk @ Naver AI Lab (Naver 1784), Mar 2024

[1] 3D Point Cloud and Transformer
Invited talk / Tutorial @ Korean Computer Vision Society (KCVS) Workshop, Feb 2023

HONORS & AWARDS

InnoCORE Postdoctoral Fellowship @ Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT). 2025,2026
Outstanding Paper Award @ Korea Univ. 2024
Travel Awards @ CVPR. 2024
Travel Awards @ NeurIPS. 2022
Research Grants @ Brain Korea 21(BK21). 2021, 2022
Future Research Fellowship @ Brain Korea 21(BK21). 2021, 2022
Teaching Assistantship @ Korea Univ. 2021,2022
Teaching Fellowship @ Korea Univ. 2020
Scholarship @ Korea Univ. 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020