# Joochan Kim

**Email:** [tikatoka [at] snu [dot] ac [dot] kr](mailto:tikatoka@snu.ac.kr)

**Address:** Gwangmyeong-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8DtoB2QAAAAJ&hl=ko)

**Socials:**

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/tikatokㅁ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tikatok%E3%85%81)
[https://github.com/TikaToka ](https://github.com/TikaToka%20)

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**I am looking for a PhD position or Job openings!**

## Introduction

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I am a MSc graduate at Seoul National University in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

I am broadly interested in the intersections between Language, Vision, and Robots—in other words, Multimodal and Embodied AI.

**This page might not by up-to-date due to other commitments. Please refer to my ****[personal page](https://tikatoka.github.io)**

## Educations

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**Seoul National University **( Mar. 2022 ~ Aug. 2024 )

MSc Computer Science and Engineering

GPA 3.98 / 4.5

- under supervision of  Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang at _BioIntelligence Lab_

    - Thesis: 절차적 비디오 학습의 편향 분석 [[Paper]](https://snu-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=82SNU_INST51953513730002591&context=L&vid=82SNU&lang=ko_KR&search_scope=THESIS&adaptor=Local%2520Search%2520Engine&tab=thesis&query=creator,contains,%25EA%25B9%2580%25EC%25A3%25BC%25EC%25B0%25AC,AND&mode=advanced&offset=0)

**Yonsei University** ( Mar. 2016 ~ Aug. 2021 )

BSc Computer Science

GPA 3.4 / 4.5

## Experiences

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> **Korea Institute of Science and Technology **(Jan 2025 ~ )

**Research Intern**

Under supervision of Dr. Hwasup Lim at _Center for AI_

- VLA for Autonomous Driving

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> **Agency for Science, Technology and Research **( Mar 2024 ~ Aug 2024 )

**Intern** 

Under supervision of Dr. Haiyue Zhu at _SIMTech_

- Construct autolabeling pipeline from robotics dataset by using various foundation models, and converted to Instruction dataset, to utilize multimodal Large Language Models in Robotics Task with multi-gpu

    - Experience distributed learning

    - Experience AWS

- Build LLM with Langchain for summarization 

- Build Chatbot with LLM using Langchain with RAG for recommendation specialized to Robotics task 

- Experience ROS

## Publications

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**[W2] Exploring Ordinal Bias in Action Recognition for Instructional Videos**

To be appeared at** ICLRW 2025**

**Joochan Kim**, Minjoon Jung, Byoung-Tak Zhang

- Prove 'ordinal bias' exists in instructional video understanding task

**[[C2] Background-aware Moment Detection for Video Moment Retrieval](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02728)**

**WACV 2025**

Minjoon Jung, Youwon Jang, Seongho Choi, **Joochan Kim**, Jin-Hwa Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang

- Suggest SentenceBERT for classifying positive / negative query

- Contribute to write Related Works

**[[W1] Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation with Collision Mitigation in Continuous Environment](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17267)**

**CVPRW 2024**

Seongjun Jeong, Gi-Cheon Kang, **Joochan Kim**, Byoung-Tak Zhang

- Prompt tuning

- Review writing

**[Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15049)**

**arXiv Preprint**

Seongjun Jeong, Gi-Cheon Kang, Seongho Choi, **Joochan Kim**, Byoung-Tak Zhang

- Discuss way of research

- Review writing

**[[C1] Modal-specific Pseudo Query Generation for Video Corpus Moment Retrieval ](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.530/%20)**

**EMNLP 2022**

Minjoon Jung, SeongHo Choi, **Joochan Kim**, Jin-Hwa Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang

- Re-implement VerbBERT, from previous work

    - Crawling

    - Finetune LM

- Contribute to write Appendix & Related Works

## Awards

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**AIM Innovation Track Online Student Performance Presentation **Dec. 2020

- LINC+, College of Enginerring, Yonsei University

- Excellence Award

**Graduation Work Exhibition **Dec. 2020

- Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University

- Grand Prize

**Graduation Work Exhibition **Aug. 2020

- Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University

- Excellence Award

## Languages

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- Korean

    - Native

- English

    - OPIc IH

    - WPT IH

    - TOEIC 950

- Chinese

    - HSK Grade 4 (Expired)

## Skills

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- Python

- Pytorch

- Linux

- Git

- AWS

- ROS

- ONNX

## Pages

- [Joochan Kim](https://slashpage.com/all-about-tika)
- [AI](https://slashpage.com/all-about-tika/dwy5rvmj1e4yg2p46zn9)
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- [Algorithm](https://slashpage.com/all-about-tika/7916x82rq9x6nm4kpyg3)
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