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- [April 2026] My collaborative paper "ReJump: A Tree-Jump Representation for Analyzing and Improving LLM Reasoning" with Yuchen Zeng, Shuibai Zhang, Wonjun Kang, Prof. Kangwook Lee, and others has been accepted at ICML-2026.
- [April 2026] My paper "Exploration and Exploitation Errors Are Measurable for Language Model Agents" with Jaden Park, Jongwon Jeong, Prof. Yong Jae Lee, and others has been released at arXiv.
- [March 2026] My paper "Transformers in the Dark: Navigating Unknown Search Spaces via Bandit Feedback" has been awarded a J2C Certification.
- [March 2026] My paper "Transformers in the Dark: Navigating Unknown Search Spaces via Bandit Feedback" with Prof. Kangwook Lee and others has been accepted at TMLR.
- [February 2026] My collaborative paper "TAPE: Tool-Guided Adaptive Planning and Constrained Execution in Language Model Agents" with Jongwon Jeong and Prof. Kangwook Lee will be presented at ICLR Workshop on Agentic AI in the Wild: From Hallucinations to Reliable Autonomy (AAIW-2026).
- [February 2026] My collaborative paper "TAPE: Tool-Guided Adaptive Planning and Constrained Execution in Language Model Agents" with Jongwon Jeong and Prof. Kangwook Lee has been released at arXiv.
- [February 2026] My collaborative paper "GP-4DGS: Probabilistic 4D Gaussian Splatting from Monocular Video via Variational Gaussian Processes" with Mijeong Kim and Prof. Bohyung Han has been accepted at CVPR-2026.
- [January 2026] Happy new year!
- [December 2025] My collaborative paper "ReJump: A Tree-Jump Representation for Analyzing and Improving LLM Reasoning" with Yuchen Zeng, Shuibai Zhang, Wonjun Kang, Prof. Kangwook Lee, and others has been released at arXiv.
- [May 2025] My two papers "Density Ratio Estimation-based Bayesian Optimization with Semi-Supervised Learning" and "VersaPRM: Multi-Domain Process Reward Model via Synthetic Reasoning Data" have been accepted at ICML-2025.
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ABOUT ME
Jungtaek Kim is a research associate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working with Prof. Kangwook Lee. Previously, he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh, working with Prof. Paul W. Leu, Prof. Satish Iyengar, Prof. Lucas Mentch, and Prof. Oliver Hinder, and a postdoctoral researcher at POSTECH in the group of Prof. Minsu Cho. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering from POSTECH in 2015 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from POSTECH in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Seungjin Choi and Prof. Minsu Cho. During his Ph.D. program, he interned at Vector Institute and SigOpt (acquired by Intel). His internship at Vector Institute was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Graham W. Taylor, and he worked with Dr. Michael McCourt at SigOpt. He presented his work as a first author or co-author at top-tier machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, UAI, and ICLR. He has also served as a program committee member or reviewer for several machine learning conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, UAI, and ICLR. His main research interests are statistical machine learning, Bayesian optimization, large language models, and sequential assembly.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Statistical Machine Learning
- Bayesian Optimization
- Large Language Models
- Sequential Assembly
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Last updated: April 30, 2026