Junyeob Baek

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at KAIST working with Prof. Sungjin Ahn. Currently, I’m visiting Mila-Quebec AI Institute as a visiting student, collaborating with Yoshua Bengio’s group and LawZero team members. My research goal lies in building lifelong developmental agents with human-like cognitive capabilities. To achieve this, I am particularly interested in world modeling, interpretability, open-ended learning, and the alignment problem. Prior to my Ph.D., I received my MS from KAIST under the supervision of Prof. Sungjin Ahn. Before entering academia, I worked for 4.5 years in industry, gaining practical experience in robotics at Syscon Robotics and AI at Makinarocks.