Portrait of Kiyoung Seong

Kiyoung Seong

Ph.D. Candidate, KAIST AI

Advised by Prof. Sungsoo Ahn

About

My research goal is to accelerate materials discovery with AI. I am interested in materials generation, property prediction, machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIP), and DFT-based database construction.

I am also interested in building AI computational scientists that orchestrate these capabilities — autonomously design, simulate, evaluate, and collect data for materials.

Publications

  • Multimodal Crystal Flow: Any-to-Any Modality Generation for Unified Crystal Modeling

    Kiyoung Seong, Sungsoo Ahn, Sehui Han, Changyoung Park

    Preprint 2026

  • Transition Path Sampling with Improved Off-Policy Training of Diffusion Path Samplers

    Kiyoung Seong, Seonghyun Park, Seonghwan Kim, Woo Youn Kim, Sungsoo Ahn

    ICLR 2025

  • On Scalable and Efficient Training of Diffusion Samplers

    Minkyu Kim*, Kiyoung Seong*, Dongyeop Woo, Sungsoo Ahn, Minsu Kim(* equal contribution)

    NeurIPS 2025

  • Learning Collective Variables from BioEmu with Time-Lagged Generation

    Seonghyun Park, Kiyoung Seong, Soojung Yang, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Sungsoo Ahn

    ICLR 2026

  • Energy-Based Generator Matching: A Neural Sampler for General State Space

    Dongyeop Woo, Minsu Kim, Minkyu Kim, Kiyoung Seong, Sungsoo Ahn

    NeurIPS 2025

Experience

  1. 2025.03 — Present

    Ph.D. Candidate

    KAIST AI

    Advisor: Prof. Sungsoo Ahn

  2. 2025.09 — 2026.02

    Research Intern, Materials Intelligence Lab

    LG AI Research

    Supervisor: Changyoung Park

  3. 2023.06 — 2025.02

    Researcher

    POSTECH, CSE

  4. 2017.03 — 2023.02

    B.S. in Mathematics Education (Advanced Mathematics Track)

    Korea University