KAIST SoC Colloquium (2026 Fall)



Upcoming Talk

2026/09/14 Mon 16:00-18:00
Room 1501 (Joint Lecture Room 1), E3-1, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Moontae Lee
LG AI Research | Vice President & Head of Superintelligence Lab
Self-Improving AI Agents
(English (Offline))

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Mon
SEP
07
Sang Won Bae
Kyonggi University | Professor
Counting Polygons and Holes: Algorithms and Complexity
(Korean (Offline))  
Mon
SEP
14
Moontae Lee
LG AI Research | Vice President & Head of Superintelligence Lab
Self-Improving AI Agents
(English (Offline))  
Mon
SEP
21
YongKeun (Paul) Park
KAIST | Endowed Chair Professor
Holotomography and AI
(English (Offline))  
Mon
SEP
28
Suthee Ruangwises
Chulalongkorn University | Lecturer
Card-Based Cryptography: Computing Securely with Playing Cards
(English (Offline))  
Mon
OCT
12
Johannes Blömer
Paderborn University | Professor
Sums of Square Roots, Travelling Salesmen and Diophantine Approximation
(English (Offline))  
Mon
OCT
26
Naoto Yokoya
The University of Tokyo | Professor
Open and Globally Reliable GeoAI
(English (Offline))  
Mon
NOV
02
Seungbum Jo
Chungnam National University | Assistant Professor
Encoding Data Structures on Arrays
(English (Offline))  
Mon
NOV
09
Eunjin Oh
POSTECH | Associate Professor
How Geometry Changes the Computational Landscape
(English (Offline))  
Mon
NOV
16
Donghee Na
Karrot (당근) | Lead ML Infrastructure Software Development Engineer
AI는 소프트웨어 엔지니어링을 어떻게 바꾸고 있는가
(Korean (Offline))  
Mon
NOV
23
Byungseok Roh
Kakao Corporation | Executive Leader
From Pretraining to Production: Building AI Models for Millions of Users
(Korean (Offline))  
Mon
NOV
30
Sangdoo Yun
Naver AI Lab | Research Director
Beyond Scaling: Efficient and Grounded Multimodal Intelligence
(Korean (Offline))  
Mon
DEC
07
Maximilian Gorsky
IBS DIMAG | Senior Researcher
How Graph Structure Makes Hard Problems Tractable
(English (Offline))  
Attendance
When

Mon, 16:00 - 18:00

Where

Offline - Room 1501 (Joint Lecture Room 1), E3-1, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

How to check attendance

Attendance will be checked as follows:

  • All seminars this semester will be held offline in this semester.
  • A survey form will be distributed at the entrance before the seminar.
  • Please fill in your name and student ID, provide a summary of the seminar.
  • After the seminar, please submit the completed form to the TA at the entrance.
Attendance Policy
  • [IMPORTANT] To get the S(pass) grade, you should attend 10 or more sessions.
  • For international students, attendance at a minimum of 7 out of the 8 classes is required (excluding 4 classes in Korean) from the SoC Colloquium.
    • For the remaining attendance, participation in the following seminars will also be accepted:
      • Any CS-related seminars that organized or hosted by KAIST
      • SoC seminar announced on the SoC board
  • For any questions regarding attendance or other administrative matters, please contact the TAs (Sehun Park, Minseong Bae) rather than contacting the instructors directly.
Attending Other Seminars
(International students only)
  • Submit the seminar announcement (email or portal notice), and
  • Upload at least two photos/screenshots as proof of attendance (e.g., the seminar presentation screen and a photo showing yourself at the seminar venue) to KLMS (Course Q&A board) as a private post.
Absence & Late Arrival Policy
  • Up to two absences may be excused with valid documentation (e.g., medical leave, internship, business trip).
    • For a business trip, please submit an approved business trip application form or equivalent supporting document.
    • Procedure:
      1. Post a private message on the KLMS Q&A board.
      2. Send an email to the TA.
  • Late Arrival Policy:
    • Attendance sheets will be removed 5 minutes after the seminar begins.
    • 5–10 minutes late: You will be marked as late. Please collect the attendance sheet from the TA.
    • More than 10 minutes late: You will be marked as absent.
    • Two late arrivals will be counted as one absence. A single late arrival will not be counted as an absence.
Contacts
Instructor

Prof. Martin Ziegler link

Prof. Hyunwoo J. Kim link

Teaching Assistant

If you do not have a specific concern, please use the TA's email below:

Sehun Park, Minseong Bae (email)