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Sangkyung Kwak

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I am a Research Engineer @General Robotics. Before joining General Robotics, I completed my M.S. degree @Algorithmic Intelligence Laboratory (ALIN-LAB), where I was advised by Jinwoo Shin. During my M.S. degree, my research focused on vision language models, generative modeling, and their applications. Prior to that, I received my B.S. in Computer Science @KAIST.

Publications (C: Conference, J: Journal, W: Workshop , P: Preprint)

[P2] DreamControl-v2: Simpler and Scalable Autonomous Humanoid Skills via Trainable Guided Diffusion Priors
Sudarshan Harithas, Sangkyung Kwak, Pushkal Katara, Srujan Deolasee, Dvij Kalaria, Srinath Sridhar, Sai Vemprala, Ashish Kapoor, Jonathan Huang
arXiv 2026
paper  |  project page

[C7/W2] DreamControl: Human-Inspired Whole-Body Humanoid Control for Scene Interaction via Guided Diffusion
Dvij Kalaria, Sudarshan Harithas, Pushkal Katara, Sangkyung Kwak, Sarthak Bhagat, Shankar Sastry, Srinath Sridhar, Sai Vemprala, Ashish Kapoor, Jonathan Huang
ICRA 2026, HumanoidsW 2025
paper  |  project page

[P1] FontAdapter: Instant Font Adaptation in Visual Text Generation
Myungkyu Koo, Subin Kim, Sangkyung Kwak, Jaehyun Nam, Seojin Kim, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv 2025
paper

[C6] StarFT: Robust Fine-tuning of Zero-shot Models via Spuriosity Alignment
Younghyun Kim*, Jongheon Jeong*, Sangkyung Kwak, Kyungmin Lee, Juho Lee, Jinwoo Shin
IJCAI 2025
paper

[C5] Controllable Human Image Generation with Personalized Multi-Garments
Yisol Choi, Sangkyung Kwak, Sihyun Yu, Hyungwon Choi, Jinwoo Shin
CVPR 2025
paper  |  project page

[C4] Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think
Sihyun Yu, Sangkyung Kwak, Huiwon Jang, Jongheon Jeong, Jonathan Huang, Jinwoo Shin, Saining Xie
ICLR 2025
Oral Presentation (213/11672=1.82%)
paper  |  project page  |  code

[C3] Direct Consistency Optimization for Robust Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion models
Kyungmin Lee, Sangkyung Kwak, Kihyuk Sohn, Jinwoo Shin
NeurIPS 2024
paper  |  project page  |  code

[C2] Improving Diffusion Models for Virtual Try-On
Yisol Choi, Sangkyung Kwak, Kyungmin Lee, Hyungwon Choi, Jinwoo Shin
ECCV 2024
paper  |  project page  |  code

[J1/W2] Few-shot Anomaly Detection via Personalization
Sangkyung Kwak, Jongheon Jeong, Hankook Lee, Woohyuk Kim, Dongho Seo, Woojin Yun, Wonjin Lee, Jinwoo Shin
IEEE Access, ICMLW 2023
paper

[C1] Beyond Instructions: A Taxonomy of Information Types in How-to Videos
Saelyne Yang, Sangkyung Kwak*, Juhoon Lee*, Juho Kim
CHI 2023
paper  |  project page

[W1] Improving Video Interfaces by Presenting Informational Units of Videos
Saelyne Yang, Sangkyung Kwak, Taesoo Kim, Juho Kim
CHIW 2022
paper

Research & Work Experience

General Robotics
Research Engineer

Feb. 2025 - Present

KAIST ALIN Lab
M.S. Student (advisor: Jinwoo Shin)

Mar. 2023 - Feb. 2025

KAIST Interaction Lab
Research Intern (advisor: Juho Kim)

Jun. 2021 - Sep. 2022

SK Hynix
Intern

Jan. 2021 - Feb. 2021

FINDA
Software Engineer

Apr. 2018 - Oct. 2018

Education

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (advisor: Jinwoo Shin)

Mar. 2023 - Feb. 2025

B.S. in Computer Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

Mar. 2016 - Feb. 2023