• Computer Science & Engineering @ Korea University (Mar 2022 - Present)
  
• Brain and Cognitive Sciences @ Korea University (Mar 2024 - Present)
  
• Exchange Student (CS) @ The University of Texas at Austin (Jan 2025 - May 2025)

Undergraduate Intern, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Advisor: Prof. Chanyoung Park), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Dec 2025 – Feb 2026

• Reviewed prior publications from the lab and conducted independent research on diffusion-based VLA models.

Undergraduate Researcher, Data & Adaptive Intelligence Systems Lab (Advisor: Prof. Susik Yoon), Korea University
July 2024 – Dec 2025

• Conducted independent research on time-series representation learning with large language models (LLMs).

Numerical-Token-Grounded Time-Series & Textual Embedding Alignment for Forecasting
June 2025 – Dec 2025
(Individually led research conducted at Data & Adaptive Intelligence Systems Lab under the supervision of Prof. Susik Yoon, Korea University)

• Identified that existing time-series–text methods rely on naive channel-wise attention without explicit alignment criteria.
• Proposed a numerical token–based alignment framework by converting time-series values into natural-language descriptions.
• Aligned timestamp-level time-series embeddings with number-aware textual token embeddings, enabling fine-grained and interpretable cross-modal representations.
• Validated the framework through basic experiments on ETTh1 and ILI datasets.
• Manuscript in preparation.

• Visual Perception & Scene Understanding
• Interpretable & Structured Representation Learning
• Multimodal Representation Learning
• Visual Language Action Models (VLAs)
• Autonomous Driving Perception

• 📨 Email: kimjiyun138@gmail.com
• 🌐 Google Scholar / CV: (coming soon)
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✨ “Keep it simple, but meaningful”