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Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Full Name Minji Kim
Affiliation AI Researcher, Markr AI
Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, POSTECH
Email minji.kim@markr.ai
mzkim@postech.ac.kr

Education

  • M.S. in Artificial Intelligence
    • Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea
    • 2024.02 - 2026.02
    • Advised by Prof. Hyounghun Kim
    • Thesis: Exploring Interpretable and Trustworthy Alignment Techniques for Large Language Models
    • Our lab moved from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) to POSTECH in Feb 2025
  • B.S. in Computer Science
    • University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea
    • 2022.03 - 2024.02
    • Advised by Prof. Daehwan Kim

Research Interests

  • Large Language Models
  • Alignment
  • Safety
  • Multimodal Learning

Publications

  • Refuse without Refusal: A Structural Analysis of Safety-Tuning Responses for Reducing False Refusals in Language Models
    • Minji Kim, Hyounghun Kim
    • Proceedings of EMNLP 2026
  • Knowing What Not to Answer: Selective Non-Compliance in Vision-Language Models
    • Minji Kim, Jihyoung Jang, Hyounghun Kim
    • Proceedings of EMNLP 2026
  • Revealing the Inherent Instructability of Pre-Trained Language Models
    • Seokhyun An, Minji Kim, Hyounghun Kim
    • Findings of EMNLP 2025
  • Enabling Chatbots with Eyes and Ears: An Immersive Multimodal Conversation System for Dynamic Interactions
    • Jihyoung Jang, Minwook Bae, Minji Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Hyounghun Kim
    • Proceedings of ACL 2025
  • AVEC: Achieving Instruction-Following via a Single Vector Intervention
    • Minji Kim, Hyounghun Kim
    • Proceedings of KAIA 2025
  • Detection of Sexuality and Violence in Korean News Article Titles Based on KoBERT Model
    • Minji Kim, Hwando Kim, Jimin Bong, Daehwan Kim
    • Proceedings of ACK 2023

Research Experiences

  • AI Researcher
    • Markr AI, South Korea
    • 2026 - Present
  • Graduate Student
    • Language & Intelligence Lab, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
    • 2024.02 - 2026.02
    • Advised by Prof. Hyounghun Kim
  • Research Intern
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, South Korea
    • 2023.01 - 2023.02
  • Undergraduate Research Student
    • Computer Vision Lab, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
    • 2022.10 - 2022.12

Awards and Honors

  • Grand Prize, University Student Mentor
    • Naver Connect, Korea
    • 2023.01
  • Scholarship for Academic Excellence
    • University of Ulsan, Korea
    • 2022.03 - 2023.09

Projects

  • Teaching Assistant (Introduction to Natural Language Processing), POSTECH, Korea
  • Artificial Intelligence Mentoring, Naver Connect, Korea
  • Teaching Assistant (Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse), Ulsan ICT Promotion Agency, Korea