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Sehoon Kim.

AI Systems, Efficient AI, Large Language Models

Contact:  kssteven418 at gmail dot com

SEAL @ KAIST AI

About

I am an Assistant Professor at KAIST AI, where I lead the Scalable and Efficient AI Lab (SEAL). If you are interested in joining, please read this note.

Previously, I built Grok at xAI, focusing on inference and RL infrastructure. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Kurt Keutzer. During my Ph.D., I was selected as a MLCommons ML and Systems Rising Star and was a finalist for the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship in 2024. I was also a founding engineer at Narada AI during my Ph.D.

Education

UC Berkeley 2020 - 2024

Ph.D. in Computer Science
M.S. in Computer Science

Work Experiences

KAIST AI Aug 2026 - Present

Assistant Professor

xAI Jan 2025 - Apr 2026

Member of Technical Staff

Narada AI May 2022 - Dec 2024

Founding Engineer

Honors and Awards

Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Scholarship 2017

Publications

The publications below highlight work from my Ph.D. For the full publication list, visit SEAL Publications.