Seunghwan Jang

M.S. Student, School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST
Autonomous Control for Stochastic Systems Lab; advisor: Prof. SooJean Han
jsh991124[at]kaist[dot]ac[dot]kr

Research interests lie in safety-critical generative AI. Beyond integrating formal safety guarantees (e.g., control barrier functions) into generative models, I focus on designing generative architectures (diffusion, flow matching, discrete diffusion) that are inherently amenable to safety certification. Primary application domains include robotics and language models.

I am always open to discussing research and enjoy exchanging new ideas. Please feel free to reach out to me anytime!


Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

M.S. Student, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Autonomous Control for Stochastic Systems Lab (Daejeon, Korea)
Advisor: Prof. SooJean Han
Sep 2024 – Present

Kyung Hee University

B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering
College of Software Convergence (Yongin, Korea)
Advisor: Prof. Hui Yong Kim
GPA: 4.02 / 4.3 (Ranked 1st/97)
Mar 2019 – Aug 2024

Experience

M.S. Student Researcher

Autonomous Control for Stochastic Systems Lab, KAIST (Daejeon, Korea)

• Safety-critical generative AI: designing and certifying generative planners (flow matching, streaming flow, discrete diffusion) with formal safety guarantees (CBF/ECBF). Published at ICLR 2026 and workshops.

Sep 2024 – Present

Research Student

Visual Media Lab, Kyung Hee University (Yongin, Korea)

• Built and evaluated MPEG FCM/FCVCM pipelines combining conventional codecs (VVC, HEVC) with neural compression; emphasized rate–accuracy trade-offs and reproducibility.
• 3 first-author domestic publications; 10 MPEG standardization contributions; 1 Korean patent.

Aug 2022 – Aug 2024

Research Intern

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) (Daejeon, Korea)

Supported MPEG standardization by running validation experiments and analyzing performance data for FCM/FCVCM.

Jul 2023 – Aug 2023

Research Project

AFOSR (United States)

Fast, accurate, and efficient situational awareness using visual sensor networks (3D Gaussian Splatting–based system).

Jun 2025 – Present

Research

Focus Areas
  • Integrating formal safety guarantees (e.g., CBF) into generative models (diffusion, flow matching, discrete diffusion)
  • Designing generative architectures inherently amenable to safety certification
  • Applications to robotics and language models

Keywords: safety-critical AI, safe generation, diffusion models, flow matching, discrete diffusion, safety-critical control, control barrier functions, robotics, language models

Publications
Conference
SafeFlowMatcher: Safe and Fast Planning using Flow Matching with Control Barrier Functions
Jeongyong Yang*, Seunghwan Jang*†, SooJean Han
ICLR 2026 | 2026
(* Equal contribution; †Corresponding author)
Workshop
Safe Streaming Flow Planning by Aligning Generation with Execution
Seunghwan Jang*, Jeongyong Yang*, Siddharth Ancha, SooJean Han
ICLR 2026 Workshop on World Models | 2026
Stratified Hazard Sampling: Minimal-Variance Event Scheduling for CTMC/DTMC Discrete Diffusion and Flow Models
Seunghwan Jang, SooJean Han
ICLR 2026 ReALM-GEN Workshop | 2026
Comparison of Compression Codec Algorithms to Image Datasets in 3D Gaussian Splatting Models
Seunghwan Jang, SooJean Han
Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU) | 2025-02