Young Joong Kim

Master's Student in CSE

Seoul National University

Young Joong Kim

Hi, I'm Young Joong Kim, a Master's Student at Seoul National University, VGILab. I'm interested in generative model, both fundamentals and applications.

Other activities can be found on work list.

CV

News

2026/09

FSF-DMD accepted to NeurIPS 2026.

2026/09

Improved Self-Distillation accepted to TMLR.

2025/08

DARPA AIxCC 3rd Place with Team Theori.

2025/03

Started M.S. program at Seoul National University.

Experience (+6 years)

Freelance Researcher

Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 · Theori · AI for Offensive Security

Senior Researcher

Aug 2023 - Feb 2025 · Theori · AI for Offensive Security

Research Team Lead

Aug 2023 - Oct 2024 · Theori · AI for Offensive Security

Research Team Lead

Apr 2021 - Aug 2023 · LionRocket · AI Team

Research Engineer

July 2019 - Aug 2023 · LionRocket · Speech Synthesis

Education

Seoul National University (SNU)

Mar 2025 - Feb 2027 · M.S. in CSE · VGI Lab

Hanyang University (HYU)

Mar 2018 - Feb 2025 · B.S. in CSE & Mathematics

Publications

Coming soon
Compositional Diffusion Planning with Chunk Selection and Reachability Measure

Chanyoung Park, Youngjoong Kim, Jaesik Park†

Preprint · arXiv

FSF-DMD overview
Distribution Matching Distillation without Fake Score Network

Youngjoong Kim, Deokyeong Lee, Jaesik Park†

NeurIPS 2026 · arXiv

improved Self-Distillation
Stabilizing Consistency Training: A Flow Map Analysis and Self-Distillation

Youngjoong Kim, Duhoe Kim, Woosung Kim, Jaesik Park†

TMLR 2026 · Project Page · arXiv

Awards

DARPA AIxCC 3rd Place with Team Theori

Aug 2025, DARPA AI Cyber Challenge, 3rd Place ($1.5M)