A deep learning researcher. My research interests include theoretical analysis of deep neural networks, computer vision, and machine learning.

🎓 Experience

Visiting Researcher | Osaka University, Japan **January 2024 - October 2024

Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

Advisor: Yoshinobu Kawahara (mls.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp)

Ph.D. | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea **February 2020 - February 2025

Department of Electrical Engineering

Advisor: Sang Woo Kim (icsl.postech.ac.kr)

M.S. | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea **February 2018 - February 2020

Department of Electrical Engineering

Advisor: Sang Woo Kim (icsl.postech.ac.kr)

B.S. | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea February 2014 - February 2018

Department of Electrical Engineering

Born as a mixed Korean-Japanese. February 1995

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🧑🏻‍🏫 Professional Services in Academia

Reviewer

AISTATS (2023, 2025)

NeurIPS (2024)

ICLR (2025)

Expert Systems With Applications (2020, 2023)

Neural Networks (2024, 2024)

Applied Soft Computing (2024)

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (2024)

International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (2024)

Teaching Assistant

EECE276 Electrical Engineering Lab (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)

DISU399 Next Generation Semiconductor Innovation (2022)

Scholarship

Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF), The National Scholarship for Science and Engineering

Full Undergraduate Scholarship (2014.03-2018.02)

Oral Presentations on Domestic Conference

POSTECH-NAVER AI DAY (2022)

ICS (2019)

CICS(2019, 2020)

ICESI (2022)

KIEE Summer Conference (2023)

Languages

English: Fluent

Japanese: Native

Korean: Native


👨🏻‍💻 Professional Services in Industry

Industry-Academia Cooperation Projects

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Autonomous Vehicles Team, Project Leader (Main), 2019-2024, Grant Number: IO201210-08019-01.

Korea Electric Power Corporation, Project Assistant (Sub), 2018-2021, Grant Number: R18XA06-21.

POSCO Research Institute, Project Assistant (Sub), 2018-2019.

Patents

ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE, Attorney Ref No. 8947-001769-US, 2022-09-21, USA Patents, Under Review.

Programming Skills

General Deep-learning Libraries: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, Scikit-learn, timm, HuggingFace, and OpenMMLab. Specific Deep-learning Libraries: ONNX and TensorRT for model acceleration, Slurm for experiments on cluster environment. Linux: I live in terminal. I enjoy lots of customization with Vim, Tmux, Zsh, iTerm2, etc. Intermediate: C, C++, MATLAB, R, Java.


📝 Publications (International Journal and Conference)

  1. Scale Equalization for Multi-Level Feature Fusion BJ Kim, SW Kim Transactions on Machine Learning Research https://openreview.net/forum?id=oS4SkVKA7S
  2. Guidelines for the Regularization of Gammas in Batch Normalization for Deep Residual Networks BJ Kim, H Choi, H Jang, SW Kim ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 15 (3), 1-20 https://doi.org/10.1145/3643860
  3. On the ideal number of groups for isometric gradient propagation BJ Kim, H Choi, H Jang, SW Kim Neurocomputing 573, 127217 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2023.127217