Portrait
Sung June Kim
Ph.D. Student (Candidate)
Korea University
About Me

Hello ๐Ÿ‘‹ I am a Ph.D. student at Korea University, advised by Prof. Sangpil Kim. My research explores how embodied agents can reason, learn, and act in the physical world. In particular, I am interested in developing self-supervising and self-improving embodied agents through reasoning, with a focus on reasoning verification, latent reasoning, and continual learning and adaptation.

I'm always happy to chat about embodied AI, embodied reasoning, and related research. Feel free to reach out by email or schedule a coffee chat โ˜•

Education
  • Korea University
    Korea University
    Deptartment of AI
    Ph.D. Student
    Mar. 2022 - Feb. 2027 (Expected)
  • Dongguk University
    Dongguk University
    B.A. in Business Management
    Mar. 2015 - Feb. 2019
Experience
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Visiting Researcher (Advisor - Prof. Honglak Lee)
    May. 2025 - May. 2026
  • Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
    Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
    Visiting Researcher (Advisor - Prof. Sujin Jang)
    Mar. 2024 - Feb. 2025
News
2026
One paper accepted to ECCV 2026. See you in Malmรถ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช
Jun 28
One paper accepted to CVPR 2026. (not attending)
Feb 25
2025
One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025. See you in San Diego ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Sep 15
Started the visiting research program at University of Michigan
May 12
One paper accepted to ICML 2025. See you in Vancouver ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
May 06
One paper accepted to CVPR 2025. See you in Nashville ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Feb 20
2024
One paper accepted to ECCV 2024. See you in Milan ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
Jun 20
Started the visiting research program at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Mar 01
One paper accepted to CVPR 2024. See you in Seattle ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
Feb 20
Selected Publications (view all )
Path-level Hinsight Instructions for Semantic Exploration in Vision-Language Navigation
Path-level Hinsight Instructions for Semantic Exploration in Vision-Language Navigation

Sung June Kim, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $, Honglak Lee$^โ€ $

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026

Path-level Hinsight Instructions for Semantic Exploration in Vision-Language Navigation

Sung June Kim, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $, Honglak Lee$^โ€ $

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026

Active Test-time Vision-Language Navigation
Active Test-time Vision-Language Navigation

Heeju Ko, Sung June Kim, Gyeongrok Oh, Jeongyun Yoon, Honglak Lee, Sujin Jang, Seugryong Kim, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025

Active Test-time Vision-Language Navigation

Heeju Ko, Sung June Kim, Gyeongrok Oh, Jeongyun Yoon, Honglak Lee, Sujin Jang, Seugryong Kim, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025

Test-time adaptation for Online Vision-Language Navigation with Feedback based Reinforcement Learning
Test-time adaptation for Online Vision-Language Navigation with Feedback based Reinforcement Learning

Sung June Kim*, Gyeongrok Oh*, Heeju Ko, Daehyun Ji, Dongwook Lee, Byung-Jun Lee, Sujin Jang, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $ (* equal contribution)

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025

Test-time adaptation for Online Vision-Language Navigation with Feedback based Reinforcement Learning

Sung June Kim*, Gyeongrok Oh*, Heeju Ko, Daehyun Ji, Dongwook Lee, Byung-Jun Lee, Sujin Jang, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $ (* equal contribution)

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025

3D Occupancy Prediction with Low-Resolution Queries via Prototype-aware View Transformation
3D Occupancy Prediction with Low-Resolution Queries via Prototype-aware View Transformation

Gyeongrok Oh*, Sung June Kim*, Heeju Ko, Hyung-gun Chi, Jinkyu Kim, Dongwook Lee, Daehyun Ji, Sujin Jang$^โ€ $, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $ (* equal contribution)

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025

3D Occupancy Prediction with Low-Resolution Queries via Prototype-aware View Transformation

Gyeongrok Oh*, Sung June Kim*, Heeju Ko, Hyung-gun Chi, Jinkyu Kim, Dongwook Lee, Daehyun Ji, Sujin Jang$^โ€ $, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $ (* equal contribution)

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025

Higher-order Relational Reasoning for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
Higher-order Relational Reasoning for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction

Sung June Kim, Hyung-gun Chi, Hyerin Lim, Karthik Ramani, Jinkyu Kim, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024

Higher-order Relational Reasoning for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction

Sung June Kim, Hyung-gun Chi, Hyerin Lim, Karthik Ramani, Jinkyu Kim, Sangpil Kim$^โ€ $

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024

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