Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software and Computer Engineering at Ajou University. Prior to joining Ajou University, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the AI Institute for Seoul National University (AIIS). In 2025, I earned my Ph.D. in AI from Seoul National University under the supervision of Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang. I was selected as RSS Pioneers in 2025 and as a Youlchon AI Star Fellow in 2024.

My research lies at the intersection of multimodal AI and robotics. Specifically, I aim to advance robot learning and human-robot interaction by leveraging semantic, generalizable priors from multimodal AI models.

News

• [Nov 2025] I gave a talk at Dept. of Immersive Media Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU).
• [Oct 2025] I gave a talk at UNIST graduate school of AI.
• [July 2025] Our vision-language navigation work is accepted to BMVC 2025.
• [April 2025] Happy to announce that our work (CLIP-RT) is accepted to RSS 2025!
• [April 2025] I'm selected as a member of RSS Pioneers!
• [Nov 2024] Happy to release a new robotics foundation model, CLIP-RT!
• [Aug 2024] I'm selected as a recipient of the Youlchon AI Star Fellowship.
• [Jun 2024] PGA is accepted at IROS 2024.
• [Apr 2024] A preprint for embodied instruction following (Socratic Planner) is released.
• [Mar 2024] I wrote my research statement about what I've been studying.
• [Mar 2024] A new preprint (Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation) is released.
• [Jan 2024] PROGrasp is accepted to ICRA 2024!
• [Dec 2023] I attend Brainlink 2023.
• [Nov 2023] I'll give a talk at Dept. of Energy Resources Engineering at Seoul National University (Title: "The Evolution of Language Models: From Basic NLP to ChatGPT and Beyond").
• [Oct 2023] Two preprints (PROGrasp and PGA) are released!
• [Jun 2023] One paper is accepted to IROS 2023!
• [Mar 2023] Happy to announce that our paper is accepted to CVPR 2023!
• [Jun 2022] One paper is accepted to ICML 2022 Pre-training Workshop.
• [May 2022] Thrilled to announce that our new preprint is released!
• [Apr 2022] One paper is accepted to CVPR 2022 HCIS Workshop.
• [Dec 2021] I gave an invited talk at Korea Software Congress.
• [Oct 2021] One paper is accepted to NeurIPS 2021 CtrlGen Workshop.
• [Aug 2021] One paper is accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2021.
• [May 2021] One paper is accepted to ACL 2021.
• [Sep 2020] I'm starting my Ph.D. in this fall.
• [Jun 2020] From July, I'll join SNU AI Institute (AIIS) as a researcher.
• [Jan 2020] Our paper has been accepted to ICASSP 2020!
• [Dec 2019] From January, I'll be a research intern at SK T-Brain!
• [Nov 2019] I gave a spotlight talk at Video Turing Test workshop, ICCV 2019.
• [Oct 2019] I gave an invited talk at SK Telecom AI Center.
• [Aug 2019] Excited to announce that our paper has been accepted to EMNLP 2019.
• [Jun 2019] Our proposed method ranks 3rd place in Visual Dialog Challenge 2019!!
• [Aug 2018] We have a paper accepted to ECCV 2018 Workshop on VizWiz Grand Challenge.

Recent Publications [Full List]

• Seongjun Jeong, Gi-Cheon Kang, Seongho Choi, Joochan Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation, in BMVC 2025
• Gi-Cheon Kang^*, Junghyun Kim^*, Kyuhwan Shim, Jun Ki Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang, CLIP-RT: Learning Language-Conditioned Robotic Policies from Natural Language Supervision, in RSS 2025 (Oral)
• Suyeon Shin, Sujin Jeon^*, Junghyun Kim^*, Gi-Cheon Kang^*, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Socratic Planner: Self-QA-Based Zero-Shot Planning for Embodied Instruction Following, in ICRA 2025
• Junghyun Kim, Gi-Cheon Kang^*, Jaein Kim^*, Seoyoon Yang, Minjoon Jung, Byoung-Tak Zhang, PGA: Personalizing Grasping Agents with Single Human-Robot Interaction, in IROS 2024
• Gi-Cheon Kang, Junghyun Kim, Jaein Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang, PROGrasp: Pragmatic Human-Robot Communication for Object Grasping, in ICRA 2024 (Oral)
• Gi-Cheon Kang, Sungdong Kim^*, Jin-Hwa Kim^*, Donghyun Kwak^*, Byoung-Tak Zhang, The Dialog Must Go On: Improving Visual Dialog via Generative Self-Training, in CVPR 2023
• Junghyun Kim, Gi-Cheon Kang^*, Jaein Kim^*, Suyeon Shin, Byoung-Tak Zhang, GVCCI: Lifelong Learning of Visual Grounding for Language-Guided Robotic Manipulation, in IROS 2023 (Oral)
• Gi-Cheon Kang, Junseok Park, Hwaran Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang^*, Jin-Hwa Kim^*, Reasoning Visual Dialog with Sparse Graph Learning and Knowledge Transfer, in EMNLP Findings 2021
• Ahjeong Seo, Gi-Cheon Kang, Joonhan Park, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Attend What You Need: Motion-Appearance Synergistic Networks for Video Question Answering, in ACL 2021
• Taehyeong Kim, Injune Hwang, Gi-Cheon Kang, Won-Seok Choi, Hyunseo Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Label Propagation Adaptive Resonance Theory for Semi-Supervised Continuous Learning, in ICASSP 2020
• Gi-Cheon Kang, Jaeseo Lim, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Dual Attention Networks for Visual Reference Resolution in Visual Dialog, in EMNLP 2019

Service

Reviewing

• Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2026
• IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2025
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023-2025
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024-2026