Jungtaek Kim
Research Associate @ the University of Wisconsin–Madison
1550 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI 53706
United States
Jungtaek Kim is a research associate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working with Prof. Kangwook Lee.
He received B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering from POSTECH in 2015, and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from POSTECH in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Seungjin Choi and Prof. Minsu Cho.
His main research interests are statistical machine learning, Bayesian optimization, large language models, and sequential assembly.
News
| Dec 01, 2025 | My collaborative paper “ReJump: A Tree-Jump Representation for Analyzing and Improving LLM Reasoning” with Yuchen Zeng, Shuibai Zhang, Wonjun Kang, Prof. Kangwook Lee, and others has been released at arXiv. |
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| May 01, 2025 | My two papers “Density Ratio Estimation-based Bayesian Optimization with Semi-Supervised Learning” and “VersaPRM: Multi-Domain Process Reward Model via Synthetic Reasoning Data” have been accepted at ICML-2025. |
| Feb 11, 2025 | My collaborative paper “VersaPRM: Multi-Domain Process Reward Model via Synthetic Reasoning Data” with Thomas Zeng, Prof. Kangwook Lee, and others is released at arXiv. |
| Jan 01, 2025 | Happy new year! |
| Nov 01, 2024 | After a wonderful time at the University of Pittsburgh, I am joining the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a research associate working with Prof. Kangwook Lee. |