Daehyeon Choi Master. Student @ KAIST, C.S
About Me
I am Daehyeon Choi, First-year Master student in KAIST, starting from Spring, 2025. I am a member of KAIST Visual AI Group, advised by Professor Minhyuk Sung.Previously, I recevied a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree at POSTECH, 2025. I was an Intern in GenGenAI and Meissa Planet. And, I was an undergraduate intern in SNU, POSTECH, and KAIST.
Currently, I am interested in Large Vision-Language Model, especially Visual Grounding leveraging pre-trained large-scale model's prior.
Research Interests
Vision-Language Model:
Embodied Question Answering, Vision-Language-Action, Spatial Reasoning
Generative Modeling:
Image Synthesis, Image Editing, Generative PDE
Recent News
(Dec. 12th, 2025) A paper about Ambulatory Vision System is released.
(Dec. 1st, 2025) I won the National Master's Student Excellence Scholarship.
(Sep. 18th, 2025) ORIGEN is accepted to NeurIPS 2025. See you in San Diego!
(Apr. 1st, 2025) ORIGEN is released on Arxiv.
(Feb. 7th, 2025) I earned B.S. degree from POSTECH.
(Dec. 2nd, 2024) I won Donggyo Talent Fellowship.
(Oct. 30th, 2024) I will start M.S. at KAIST with Prof. Minhyuk Sung.
(Sep. 12th, 2024) InstantDrag is accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
(Jun. 24th, 2024) Intern at GenGenAI.
Publications
Education
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), (Spring, 2025 - Current)
- Master Student, Dept. of Computer Science
- Graduate Student in KAIST Visual AI Group, KAIST
Seoul National University, (Spring, 2024)
- Exchange Student, Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering
- Research Intern in Visual & Geometric Intelligence Lab, SNU
Pohang Institute of Science & Technology (POSTECH), (2021 - 2024)
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering (Cumulative GPA: 3.85/4.30)
Jeonbuk Scicence High School, (2019 - 2020)
- Early Graduation in 4 semesters
Work Experiences
Algorithm Engineer Intern, GenGenAI. (Jun. 2024 ~ Aug. 2024)
- Verification and analysis of synthetic-data based training (Multi-class classification)
- Based on Stable Diffusion, Synthetic data generation in specific case
Research Intern, Meissa Planet. (Jun. 2023 ~ Aug. 2023)
- In Research Team, Satelite Analysis with Deep learning, especially Semantic Change Detection
Research Experiences
Undergraduate Research Intern, Visual AI Group, KAIST. (Jun. 2024 ~ Aug. 2024)
- Diffusion Models, 3D-aware Editing
- Under the supervision by Prof. Minhyuk Sung
Undergraduate Research Intern, VGI Lab, SNU. (Oct. 2023 ~ Jun. 2024)
- Diffusion Models, Drag Editing
- Participated to InstantDrag (SIGGRAPH Asia 2024).
- Under the supervision by Prof. Jaesik Park, co-worked with Joonghyuk Shin.
Undergraduate Research Intern, CV Lab, POSTECH. (Sep. 2022 ~ Feb. 2023)
- Generative Adversarial Networks
- Under the supervision by Prof. Jaesik Park
Award & Scholarships
National Master's Student Excellence Scholarship, Korea Government. (Dec. 2025)
- 2,500,000 KRW per semester
- Outstanding master students majoring Science and Engineering in Korea.
Donggyo Talent Fellowship, Silver Prize, Surim Foundation. (Dec. 2024)
- 1,000,000 KRW
- Outstanding 25 undergrads who have greatly contributed to the promotion and development of the university's honor.
In Jae Rim Scholarships, Korea Foundation For Advanced Studies (KFAS). (Jan. 2024 ~ Current)
- 4,000,000 KRW per semester
- Completed programs: Imagine to Change, SK FLP Mentoring, Conflict Resolution, SOUL Project.
Tae–Jun Park Alumni Scholarships, POSTECH Alumni Foundation. (Oct. 2023)
- 3,000,000 KRW
Global Leadership Program Fellowship, CSE, POSTECH. (2022F, 2023S, 2023F)
- (2022F, 2023S) 3,000,000 KRW
- (2023F) 8,000,000 KRW at maximum
Grand Prize(1st), Undergraduate Group Research Program, POSTECH. (Feb. 2023)
- 4,000,000 KRW
STX Scholarships, STX Foundation, (Jan. 2023 ~ Current)
- 500,000 KRW per month & All tuition Fees
Jigok Scholarships, POSTECH, (Feb. 2021 ~ Dec. 2022)
- All tuition Fees
Academic Services
Journal Reviewer
- TMLR