Awards and Honors

Award1st Place AwardAI Frontier Challenge (AIFC), Korea Artificial Intelligence Association (KAIA)Nov 2025
1st place
out of 15 teams
$5,000
Prize
Task
AI Model Development for Speech Enhancement under Extreme Noise Environments
Members
Sungnyun Kim (Leader), Sungwoo Cho

AIFC 2025 presentation

AIFC 2025 award certificate

AwardBest Student Paper AwardIEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)Apr 2024
Top 0.18%
5/2,812 accepted papers
$1,000
Prize
Authors
Kangwook Jang, Sungnyun Kim, Hoirin Kim

ICASSP 2024 Best Student Paper Award certificate

AwardOutstanding Paper AwardKorea Artificial Intelligence Association (KAIA)Fall 2021
5th place
$500
Prize

Delivered a spotlight talk on self-contrastive learning

Authors
Sungnyun Kim, Sangmin Bae, Se-Young Yun
ReviewerOutstanding ReviewerIEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)Jun 2026
Top 6.1%
1,545/25,149 reviewers
ReviewerTop ReviewerInternational Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)Jul 2025
Top 1.88%
206/10,943 reviewers
$900
Complimentary registration for ICML 2025
HonorPostdoctoral FellowshipInnoCORE-LLM Research Center, KAISTMar 2026
HonorInvited PaperFGVC10 Workshop, CVPRJun 2023
HonorDean’s ListFaculty of Engineering Department, KAISTSpring 2017
Top 3%
TalkInvited TalkNeurIPS 2022 Preview, VESSL AIOct 2022
  • Invited Talk at VESSL AI NeurIPS Preview
  • Delivered a 10-min talk about my paper, along with the panel talk session
  • My presentation was given at Seoul National University and was also broadcast live on YouTube
Co-authors
Jaehoon Oh, Namgyu Ho
VESSL AI NeurIPS Preview (YouTube)
My presentation (in Korean)

VESSL AI NeurIPS 2022 Preview talk

VESSL AI NeurIPS 2022 Preview panel session