KyoungJun Park

kjpark@cs.utexas.edu
Ph.D. Student at UT Austin

INTERESTS

  • I received the M.S. degree at the School of Computing, KAIST in 2019 and I am currently pursuing Ph.D. degree at UT Austin CS advised by Prof. Lili Qiu. My research interests include:
  • Generative AI, Multimodal LLM, Multimedia, Reinforcement Learning, and Next-generation Networking.

RESEARCH

My research focuses on multimodal machine learning and video systems and efficient mobile and streaming system design. Representative topics:

  • Multimodal diffusion models with visual and physical signals (Two papers in submission)
  • AI-generated video detection and reasoning-based MLLMs (ICLR '26)
  • Video streaming in LEO satellite networks (INFOCOM '26)
  • Resource-efficient mobile and adaptive video systems (CoNEXT '24, TMC '22, INFOCOM '19)
Title Authors Publication Links Description / Others
World Models with Signals Kyoungjun Park, Shicheng Zheng, Yifan Yang, Lili Qiu, Junbo Li, Xinyi Fu, Xiaomeng Li In Submission! [project] Combining video diffusion with Wi-Fi and Lidar signal embeddings.
RF Signal Generation using Image Diffusion Kyoungjun Park, Yifan Yang, Changhan Ge, Lili Qiu, Shiqi Jiang In Submission! [project] Generating RSSI prediction heatmaps using stable diffusion with RF conditioning.
VidGuard-R1: AI-Generated Video Detection and Explanation via Reasoning MLLMs and RL Kyoungjun Park, Yifan Yang, Juheon Yi, Shicheng Zheng, Muhammad Muaz, Yifei Shen, Dongqi Han, Caihua Shan, Lili Qiu ICLR 2026 [paper] MLLM-based detector combining chain-of-thought reasoning and reinforcement learning (GRPO).
Joint Optimization of Handoff and Video Rate in LEO Satellite Networks Kyoungjun Park, Zhiyuan He, Cheng Luo, Yi Xu, Lili Qiu, Changhan Ge, Muhammad Muaz IEEE INFOCOM 2026 [paper] RL-based optimization for satellite video streaming with centralized training and distributed inference.
Real-Time Neural Video Recovery and Enhancement on Mobile Devices Zhaoyuan He, Yifan Yang, Lili Qiu, Kyoungjun Park, Yuqing Yang ACM CoNEXT 2024 [paper] Design
NeuSaver: Neural Adaptive Power Consumption Optimization for Mobile Video Streaming Kyoungjun Park, Myungchul Kim, Laihyuk Park IEEE TMC 2022 [paper] NeuSaver RL
EVSO: Environment-aware Video Streaming Optimization of Power Consumption Kyoungjun Park, Myungchul Kim IEEE INFOCOM 2019 [paper] EVSO
Energy-efficient Mobile Charging for Wireless Power Transfer in Internet of Things Networks Woongsoo Na, Junho Park, Cheol Lee, Kyoungjun Park, Joongheon Kim, Sungrae Cho IEEE IoT Journal 2017 [paper] Simulator

EDUCATION

  • M.S., Feb. 2019, School of Computing, KAIST (Outstanding Thesis Award)
  • B.S., Feb. 2017, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University (Summa Cum Laude)

INTERNSHIP

  • Amazon Logo
    Amazon
    Seattle, US
    Topic: Lightweight Multimodal LLM for Product Matching
    with Pedro Herrero Vidal, You-Lin Chen, and Bin Xu
    Fall 2025

  • MS Logo
    Microsoft Research Asia
    Shanghai, China
    Topic: Researched Video Streaming in Low Earth Orbit
    with Cheng Luo, Zhiyuan He, and Lili Qiu
    Summer 2022

TEACHING ASSISTANT

  • [CS356] Computer Networks at UT Austin (Fall 2024)
  • [CS303E] Elems of Computers/Programming at UT Austin (Spring 2024)
  • [CS378] Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction at UT Austin (Fall 2023)
  • [CS331] Algorithms and Complexity at UT Austin (Spring 2023)
  • [CS371M] Mobile Computing at UT Austin (Fall 2022)
  • [CS360] Instruction to Database at KAIST (Spring 2018)
  • [CS408] Computer Science Project at KAIST (Fall 2017)