Hankyeol Kim

About

Hi! I am Hankyeol Kim, a M.S. student in Industrial Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), advised by Prof. Pilsung Kang in the Data Science & Business Analytics Lab, and I received my B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from SNU. My past work spanned physics-informed neural networks and LLM; I am now working on spatiotemporal diffusion and visual reasoning of VLM. In the long term, I am pursuing physical AI.

PASTPhysics-Informed Neural Networks PASTLLM NOWSpatiotemporal Diffusion NOWVisual Reasoning of VLM NEXTPhysical AI
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Seoul National University · Integrated M.S./Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering

DSBA Lab

Advisor: Prof. Pilsung Kang

Mar 2025 — Present

Seoul National University · B.S. in Physics and Astronomy

Mar 2020 — Feb 2025

Hana Academy Seoul

Mar 2017 — Feb 2020

Publications

* Equal contribution / † Corresponding author

Oddin: Latent Visual Reasoning in Unified Multimodal Models via Self-Distillation from Image Generation

Jaeyong Ko*, Hankyeol Kim*, Pilsung Kang†

Under review · 2026

Paper

Dynamical State-Space Diffusion for Spatiotemporal Prediction

Woojun Lee*, Hankyeol Kim*, Pilsung Kang†

Under review · 2026

Same Answer, Different Confidence: Protocol Sensitivity in LLM Confidence Calibration

Hankyeol Kim, Pilsung Kang†

Under review · 2026

Paper Code

naPINN: Noise-Adaptive Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Recovering Physics from Corrupted Measurement

Hankyeol Kim, Pilsung Kang†

NeurIPS 2026 Sim2Science Workshop (acceptance rate: 42%) · Main conference version under review

Paper Code

Professional Experience

Lunosoft Inc. · Project Manager

  • Druid Rising: Idle RPG
  • 2026 Trash King: Idle Tycoon
  • Love Revolution: Hidden Object
Feb 2024 — Nov 2024

AIARA Inc.

Project Management Team Leader · May 2023 — Feb 2024
Project Manager · Dec 2022 — Feb 2024
  • Samsung Electronics — Virtual 3D Homescreen & Memory Link
  • E-MART — Reward-based web game Emart Farm
  • Megastudy Education — Kids’ content Elihigh Kids Character Room
  • Megastudy Education — Mystical AR Nature Observation
  • Seoul National University Hospital — Long-term follow-up management app for childhood cancer survivors
App Developer · May 2023 — Jan 2024
  • LUXROBO — IoT Smart Home on-premises app
Dec 2022 — Feb 2024

SBA SeSAC · Boost Camp Mentor

Service Design

Dec 2023 — Mar 2024

Research Projects

Manufacturing AI Data Value Chain Construction Project

Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) · National R&D Project

Jul 2026 — Present

Contextual Bandit–Based Policy Optimization Framework for Insurance Restructuring Strategy Selection and Combination

Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.

Apr 2026 — Present

Data Construction and Optimization for Training/Inference of an Information Retriever

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.

Mar 2025 — Mar 2026

Anomalous Situation Detection Based on Individual Daily Patterns Using Location Information

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Jul 2025 — Nov 2025

Other Activities

I designed our lab's Physical AI study curriculum, which is open to anyone who wants to follow along.

Physical AI curriculum

Our lab regularly shares paper-review talks on its YouTube channel.

DSBA YouTube