Woogyeol Jin

Graduate student at KAIST

KAIST AI

wlsdnruf2 [AT] kaist.ac.kr / woogyeoljin [AT] gmail.com

About

I am a graduate student at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), advised by Prof. Kimin Lee. My current research focuses on distillation and RL-based post-training for LLMs. Previously, I worked on the safety and alignment of LLM agents.

Publications

[C4] Entropy-Aware On-Policy Distillation of Language Models

Woogyeol Jin, Taywon Min, Yongjin Yang, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Yi Zhou, Dennis Wei, Nathalie Baracaldo, Kimin Lee

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

[C2] Unintended Misalignment from Agentic Fine-Tuning: Risks and Mitigation

Dongyoon Hahm*, Taywon Min*, Woogyeol Jin*, Kimin Lee

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026

[C1] Enhancing LLM Agent Safety via Causal Influence Prompting

Dongyoon Hahm, Woogyeol Jin, Junesuk Choi, Sungsoo Ahn, Kimin Lee

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings), 2025

[C4] Entropy-Aware On-Policy Distillation of Language Models

Woogyeol Jin, Taywon Min, Yongjin Yang, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Yi Zhou, Dennis Wei, Nathalie Baracaldo, Kimin Lee

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

[C2] Unintended Misalignment from Agentic Fine-Tuning: Risks and Mitigation

Dongyoon Hahm*, Taywon Min*, Woogyeol Jin*, Kimin Lee

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026

[C1] Enhancing LLM Agent Safety via Causal Influence Prompting

Dongyoon Hahm, Woogyeol Jin, Junesuk Choi, Sungsoo Ahn, Kimin Lee

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings), 2025

Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Mar. 2026 - Current

M.S. Student in Artificial Intelligence

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Mar. 2020 - Feb. 2026

B.S. in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering

Experience

Research InternApr. 2026 - Oct. 2026
Shanghai, China

Microsoft Research

Undergraduate Research InternSep. 2024 - Feb. 2026
Seoul, Korea

Rise Lab

Undergraduate Research InternNov. 2023 - Mar. 2024
Daejeon, Korea

Computer Architecture and Systems Lab