Ph.D. in Intelligence and Information
Seoul National University
Ph.D. DissertationProjection, Persistence, and Elicitation of Learned Internal Structure
Best Ph.D. Dissertation AwardGSCT representative awardee · 1 recipient among 27 Ph.D. graduates
Junhoo Lee
About Me
My research aims to understand the internal mechanisms of foundation models and turn these insights into methods for controlling and adapting their behavior. My current work brings this perspective to robot agents, with the goal of enabling reliable interaction across language, vision, and action.
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at KAIST, working with Prof. Jinwoo Shin. I received my Ph.D. from Seoul National University, where I was advised by Prof. Nojun Kwak.
Education
B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Seoul National University
B.S. ThesisImprovement of Elevator Control Algorithm Using Reinforcement Learning
News
I received the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award as the representative awardee of the SNU Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology (1 recipient among 27 Ph.D. graduates).
I will be at ACL 2026 in San Diego, presenting our long paper "Unlocking the Potential of Diffusion Language Models through Template Infilling" as an oral presentation!
I will be at CVPR 2026 in Denver, presenting our "CSF: Black-box Fingerprinting via Compositional Semantics for Text-to-Image Models" paper!
I was selected as an ICML 2026 Gold Reviewer, recognizing top reviewers for this year's conference.
Selected Publications
SelectedAll
Unlocking the Potential of Diffusion Language Models through Template Infilling
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), 2026. Long Paper · Oral Presentation
Deep Support Vectors
The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
CSF: Black-box Fingerprinting via Compositional Semantics for Text-to-Image Models
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
Awards & Honors
Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
GSCT, Seoul National University · 1 recipient among 27 Ph.D. graduates
InnoCore Fellowship
ICML Gold Reviewer
BK21 Future Innovation Talent Bronze Prize
USD 1,000
BK21 Outstanding Research Talent Fellowship
USD 3,500
Yulchon AI Star Scholarship
USD 8,000
3rd Place, SNU FastMRI Challenge (out of 107 teams)
USD 3,000
Kwanak Scholarship
full funded
National Science and Engineering Scholarship
full funded