Hyunjin Kim 김현진
I'm a first-year PhD student in CS at University of Maryland, College Park, where I'm advised by Prof. Dinesh Manocha.

I received my MS in CS from UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Xiaolong Wang. Before that, I earned my BS from Yonsei University, during which I worked with Prof. Jaesik Park.

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News
Oct. 2026 I was selected as a Top Reviewer for NeurIPS 2026.
Aug. 2026 I joined UMD CS as a PhD student!
June 2026 I joined Nokia Bell Labs as a research intern this summer!
Sep 2025 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025.

Research
My research interests lie at the intersection of robotics and computer vision, where I aim to build computational systems capable of human-like scene understanding. These systems perceive complex environments and construct world models that capture both visual appearance and physical dynamics. My current research focus is on physics-grounded world models and their applications to robotics.

Academic Activities
Reviewer Conference Reviewer
CoRL 2026, NeurIPS 2026

Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)


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