Jungtaek Kim
Assistant Professor @ the University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
United States
Jungtaek Kim is an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas.
He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering from POSTECH, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from POSTECH, 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 artificial intelligence for scientific discovery.
News
| Aug 10, 2026 | After an incredible time at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, I am thrilled to have joined the University of Arkansas as an assistant professor. |
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| Apr 30, 2026 | 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 accepted at ICML-2026. |
| Apr 15, 2026 | My paper “Exploration and Exploitation Errors Are Measurable for Language Model Agents” with Jaden Park, Jongwon Jeong, Prof. Yong Jae Lee, and others has been released at arXiv. |
| Mar 26, 2026 | My paper “Transformers in the Dark: Navigating Unknown Search Spaces via Bandit Feedback” has been awarded a J2C Certification. |
| Mar 02, 2026 | My paper “Transformers in the Dark: Navigating Unknown Search Spaces via Bandit Feedback” with Prof. Kangwook Lee and others has been accepted at TMLR. |