Youngwoo Shin

Ph.D. Candidate · Electrical Engineering, KAIST

I am a Ph.D. student at the Statistical Inference & Information Theory Laboratory (SIIT) at KAIST, advised by Prof. Junmo Kim.

I study how multimodal large language models represent and reason over time, and how to interpret the generation process to align better with intention.

I am currently looking for research internship opportunities. Feel free to reach out!

Model Interpretability MLLMs Reasoning Generative Models

News

Sep 2026One paper has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026!
Mar 2026Started my Ph.D. at SIIT, KAIST.
Jan 2026One paper has been accepted to ICLR 2026!
Jul 2025One paper has been accepted to ACM Multimedia 2025!

Papers Under Review

Suppressing the Shortcut Hidden Behind the Gains of VideoLLM Fine-Tuning Youngwoo Shin, Jongsuk Kim†, Junmo Kim† Suppressing the shortcut that fine-tuning builds in VideoLLMs by intervening on the update through projection.
Model InterpretabilityMLLMsReasoning

Publications

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* equal contribution · † corresponding author

Education

2026 – present
KAIST — Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Statistical Inference & Information Theory Laboratory (SIIT)
2024 – 2026
KAIST — M.S. in Electrical Engineering Statistical Inference & Information Theory Laboratory (SIIT)
2016 – 2023
KAIST — B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Industry Experience

2023 – 2024
LG CNS — Backend Engineer
2021 – 2023
Vitasoft — Computer Vision Researcher

Skills & Languages

LanguagesPython, C, C++
FrameworksPyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, TensorRT
SpokenKorean (native), English (fluent)
© 2026 Youngwoo Shin yshin0917@kaist.ac.kr