Seulgi Kim

CS PhD student at Georgia Tech

My research bridges machine learning and human-computer interaction to advance Responsible AI. I design and develop novel visual explanations for complex machine learning models, and scalable algorithms that promote accountable use of AI.
I have collaborated with researchers and developers at Adobe, Google, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Cisco Systems, IBM Research, ADP, and AVAST Software.

Education

Aug 2024 — Present
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Advisor: Ghassan AlRegib
Aug 2023— July. 2024
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
GPA: 4.0/4.0
Mar 2016 — Feb. 2021
B.S. in Biosystems Engineering & Computer Science and Engineering
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Supported by Hyundai Motor Group Research Scholarship (Tuition and Stipend)

Research Experience

May 2024 — Augst 2024
Amazon, Austin, TX
Software Development Engineer Intern
Mentor: Rionel Dmello, Abhishek Garg
Jan. 2021 — Sep. 2023
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, South Korea
Research Engineer
Jan. 2020 — Feb. 2020
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, South Korea
Research Engineer Intern
Mentor: Jeremy Ju, Si Jun Kim
Aug. 2023 — Present
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Graduate Research Assistant, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Ghassan AlRegib
July. 2019 — June. 2020
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Undergraduate Research Intern, Lab of Physical Properties and Process Engineering of Agricultural Products
Advisor: Ghiseok Kim

Honors and Awards

2025
IEEE ICIP Student Travel Award
Selected as a recipient of the Student Travel Award.
2025
2025 GTA Excellence Award
Received $1K and a plaque for excellence in teaching (Top 3) as a GTA.
2025
2025 Outstanding GTA Award
Outstanding GTA (Top 1) in ECE department at Georgia Tech.
2021
2021 Hyundai Motors Company Idea Festival
Gold Prize (2nd place) in the Idea Festival among 100+ teams from Hyundai Motor Company.
2020
Hyundai Motors Company Research Scholar
Full tuition and stipend for 1 year. Around 30 undergraduate students are selected nationally.
2020, 2018
SNU Agricultural Development Foundation Scholarship
Received $1K per semester. Selected based on the academic performance.
2020 Spring
SNU Na Yong In Foundation Scholarship
Received $2K per semester. Selected based on the academic performance.
2019
CALS Research Fellowship Program Certificate
Development of real-time crop disease detection model using deep learning.
2019
2019 SNU AGENC FAIR
Bronze Prize (Top 3) for developing farming SNS app.
2018
SNU Hope Scholarship
Received $2K per semester. Selected based on the academic performance.
2017
2017 SNU Debate Contest
Bronze Prize (Top 3) in the contest among 30+ teams from Seoul National University.
2017 - 2018
SNU Debate and Speech Club "Acropolis"
Vice President.

Publications

Multi-level and Multi-modal Action Anticipation
Seulgi Kim, Ghazal Kaviani, Mohit Prabhushankar, Ghassan AlRegib
IEEE International Conference for Image Processing (ICIP). 2025.
Project Demo PDF Recording Code BibTeX
Hierarchical and Multimodal Data for Daily Activity Understanding
Ghazal Kaviani, Yavuz Yarici, Seulgi Kim, Mohit Prabhushankar, Ghassan AlRegib
Journal of Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR). 2025.
Project Demo PDF Recording Code BibTeX
HEX: Hierarchical Emergence Exploitation in Self-Supervised Algorithms
Kiran Kokilepersaud, Seulgi Kim, Mohit Prabhushankar, Ghassan AlRegib
The IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 2025.
Project PDF Recording Poster Code BibTeX

Patent

Apparatus and Method for Determining a Position of an Object outside a Vehicle
Seulgi Kim, Rahoon Kang, Minseong Son, Hayoung Woo, Dongyeop Jeon
US 18/538,386, 2023.
Method and Apparatus for Multi-modal Camera based Road Facility
Seulgi Kim, Minseong Son
KR 1020230178910, 2023.
Apparatus for Determining a Height of an object outside a Vehicle and a Method for the same
Rahoon Kang, Seulgi Kim, Minseong Son, Hayoung Woo, Dongyeop Jeon
US 18/505,816, 2023.
Method and Apparatus for Determining Vehicle Location based on License Plate Recognition
Seulgi Kim, Rahoon Kang, Minseong Son, Hayoung Woo, Dongyeop Jeon
KR 1020230087663, 2023.
Apparatus for Determining of Object Position outside Vehicle and Method Thereof
Seulgi Kim, Rahoon Kang, Minseong Son, Hayoung Woo, Dongyeop Jeon
KR 1020230071042, 2023.
Apparatus for Determining of Object Position outside Vehicle and Method Thereof
Rahoon Kang, Seulgi Kim, Minseong Son, Hayoung Woo, Dongyeop Jeon
KR 1020230062646, 2023.
Apparatus for Predicting a Driving Path of a Vehicle and a Method Thereof
Seulgi Kim, Yimju Kang
US 18/142,677, 2023.
Apparatus for Training a Path Prediction Model and a Method Thereof
Seulgi Kim, Yimju Kang
US 18/136,687, 2023.
Apparatus for Detecting Label Errors in Training Datasets and Method Thereof
Seulgi Kim
KR 1020230062646, 2023.
Apparatus for Predicting Driving Path of Vehicle and Method Thereof
Seulgi Kim, Yimju Kang
KR 1020220145334, 2022.
Apparatus for Training Path Prediction Model and Method Thereof
Seulgi Kim, Yimju Kang
KR 1020220145335, 2022.
Method for Controlling Seat Position based Learning
Kyungju Nam, Seulgi Kim, Yukyeong Song, Hyojeong Lee
KR 1020210160162, 2021.

Book

From the First to the Tenth Steps of Statistics (Across Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics)
Seulgi Kim, Jeongbin Park
Festbook, 2023.
ISBN 9791192190143 (VOL 1)

Invited Talks

Will AI Take Over the World? Understanding Risks in ChatGPT
Apr 2025
UGAxGT Graduate Research Seminar
LLM Attributor: Interactive Visual Attribution for LLM Generation
Mar 2025
Georgia Tech, School of CSE Recruiting Event
Will AI Take Over the World? Understanding AI's Realistic Risks
Mar 2025
Women in GTKSA Research & Career Seminar
Expanding Your Career Canvas: Pitching Strategies for Diverse Audiences
Aug 2024
Fostering Innovation in Rising Experts (FIRE) at United States-Korea Conference (UKC)
Diffusion Explainer: Diffusion Explainer: Visual Explanation for Text-to-image Stable Diffusion
Nov 2023
Georgia Tech, School of CSE Recruiting Event
Student Panel for Prospective Students
Nov 2023
Georgia Tech, School of CSE Recruiting Event
STEM Global Engineer Seminar
May 2023
Seoul National University, SNU Engineering Honor Society (STEM)
MisVis: Explaining Website Reliability by Visualizing Hyperlink Connectivity
Nov. 2022
Georgia Tech, School of CSE Recruiting Event
Mar. 2022
AVAST Software, Fake News Monthly Sync Up
Multi-Source Domain Adaptation with Pseudo-labels
Jun. 2020
Seoul National University, AIIS Retreat
STEM Vision Mentoring
Jul. 2019
Seoul National University, STEM Vision Mentoring
Organized and gave lectures on engineering for high school students. More than 700 students attended.

Teaching

Spring 2024
Teaching Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
AI Foundations (ECE 2806), Instructor: Ghassan AlRegib
Lectured Lab and Recitation classes for 2nd year undergraduate students.
2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
AI Foundations (ECE 2806), Instructor: Ghassan AlRegib
Developed the course from scratch.
2017 - 2018
Lead Tutor
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Acropolis: Speech and Debate Class
Lead tutor for two consecutive years, taught 28 high school students.

Mentoring

Fall 2023 — Present
Sri Ranganathan Palaniappan
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fall 2024 — Present
Kunal Mohindra
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fall 2023 — Fall 2024
Aishwarya Chakravarthy
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fall 2023 — Fall 2024
Grace Kim
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fall 2023 — Fall 2024
Alexander Karpekov
M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: CS Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology
Fall 2023 — Fall 2024
Aeree Cho
M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: ML Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology
Fall 2021 — Fall 2023
David Munechika
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
Fall 2021 — Spr. 2023
Kevin Li
B.S. in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: ML Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University
Fall 2021 — Spr. 2023
Alex Yang
M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: CS Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology
Fall 2021 — Spr. 2022
Omar Shaikh
B.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sigma Xi Best Undergraduate Research Award, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: CS Ph.D. at Stanford University

Grants and Funding

2024
Democratizing Visual AI: Enhancing Efficiency and Usability of Large Vision Models for Fostering Under-Resourced Access
NSF Medium Grant
Co-PIs: Judy Hoffman, Celine Lin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
Co-authored winning proposal resulting in $1.2M NSF grant. Contributed to experiment with on-device implementation of the CLIP model.
2023
Scaling Up Educators' Capacities: Automating Visualization Assessment via Generative AI
Google Award for Inclusion Research
Co-PIs: Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
Co-authored a proposal resulting in $60k resesarch funding from Google.
2022
Cisco Research Funding
Co-PIs: Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
Co-authored a proposal resulting in $200k resesarch funding on responsible AI from Cisco.

Service

Reviewer
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2025
Institutional
2021 – Present
Georgia Tech Korean Student Association
Serving as a president. Have served as treasury, web administrator, and recruitment officer. Organize events for Korean graduate students at Georgia Tech.
2022 – 2024
Georgia Tech CSE Website Committee
Improve external and internal communication in collaboration with a communication officer and faculty members
2017 – 2021
Seoul National University ECE Student Reporter
Published a magazine about research, people, and events of Department of ECE every semester.
2020
SNU Buddy
Selected as the best buddy out of over 60 buddy students based on the votes from international exchange students.
2018, 2019
Dream Camp Mentoring
Conducted mentoring program about "how to materialize one's dream" for high school students in countryside
2018
Young Generation Forum (YGF)
Hosted by KOFST to bring young Korean heritage students from all over the world. Attended as a Korean delegate.
2017 – 2018
Seoul National University ECE Student Vice President
Elected from student vote.
2016, 2017
KOSAF Talent Sharing Volunteer Camp
Conducted self-planned mentoring for elementary school students in underprivileged areas in Korea
Member
2024 - Present
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

References

Dr. Ghassan AlRegib, Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology