Mingyu visited Prof. Mijung Park’s lab at UBC Computer Science and exchanged research ideas with Profs. Nikil Dutt and Stephan Mandt at UC Irvine. The UC Irvine visit also supported the KMU–UCI GREAT Program, an undergraduate research exchange hosted by Prof. Nikil Dutt, strengthening research collaboration and academic exchange across the institutions.
Mingyu delivered an oral talk on the SGF paper, “Safety-Guided Flow (SGF): A Unified Framework for Negative Guidance in Safe Generation,” at ICLR 2026.
Prof. Mingyu Kim’s ICLR 2026 paper, SGF, was covered by domestic media in Korea. The press article is available here.
Mingyu will serve as an Area Chair for the NeurIPS 2026 Position Track, contributing his expertise in support of a rigorous and constructive peer-review process for the research community.
A new paper titled “LLM-as-UI: A Preliminary Exploration of Fine-Tuned Language Models as Intelligent Interfaces in Modular Ship Design” has been accepted for publication in Ocean Engineering. Ocean Engineering is a prestigious journal published by Elsevier, ranked in the top 5% across all scientific journals and recognized as one of the top-tier venues in the ocean and marine engineering field. Mingyu contributed as the corresponding author, collaborating with Minjoo Choi, Jaekyeong Lee, and Stein Ove Erikstad. Congratulations to all co-authors!
Mingyu’s research was highlighted through a CIFAR interview feature and selected for CIFAR Headliner News on March 5, 2026. CIFAR (the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) is an internationally recognized organization that advances frontier research and supports transformative work in AI and other scientific fields. Read the article.
Prof. Mingyu Kim appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of AI at Kookmin University
