Hyomin Lee

I'm a master's student in the MLAI Lab at KAIST, under the supervision of Prof. Sung Ju Hwang. I earned my bachelor's degree in Cyber Defense and Artificial Intelligence from Korea University.

My primary research interests lie at the intersection of security and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on:

  • Model Robustness
  • Safe & Trustworthy AI
  • LLM Agent Security

Education

  • M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, KAIST
    • Sep 2025 - Present
  • B.E. in Cyber Defense & Artificial Intelligence, Korea University
    • Mar 2021 - Feb 2025

Publications

  • Enhancing Variational Autoencoders with Smooth Robust Latent Encoding
    • Hyomin Lee*, Minseon Kim*, Sangwon Jang, Jongheon Jeong, Sung Ju Hwang
    • arXiv preprint, 2025
  • Automatic Jailbreaking of the Text-to-Image Generative AI Systems
    • Minseon Kim, Hyomin Lee, Boqing Gong, Huishuai Zhang, Sung Ju Hwang
    • ICML Worshop on NextGenAISafety, 2024

Honors and Awards

  • Presidential Science Scholarship, 2023-2024
  • Best Prize, LG U+ Security Hackathon (Team: roKyC), 2024
  • Best Prize, Hacktheon Sejong Cybersecurity Competition (Team: CyKor), 2022
  • Top 10 Finalist, KITRI Best of the Best 9th, 2021

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