About

👋 Hi, I’m Kyeonghwan Gwak 🤗
I am currently a Research Officer at the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), South Korea’s national agency for defense R&D. Concurrently, I serve as a Second Lieutenant in the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF), commissioned through the Research Officers for National Defense (ROND) program.

I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering with a minor in Mathematical Sciences from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), graduating with Summa Cum Laude and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Award. During my time there, I was a member of the UNIST Vision and Learning Laboratory, advised by Prof. Seungryul Baek.
📫 How to reach me!
Email: khgwak@unist.ac.kr / khgwak03@gmail.com

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 2022.02 – 2026.02
- B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Minor in Mathematical Sciences
  Summa Cum Laude, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Award

Agency for Defense Development (ADD), 2026.06 – Present
Research Officer for National Defense
- Evaluating Agentic Mathematical Discovery Loops (NeurIPS 2026 Workshop)
UNIST Vision and Learning Laboratory, 2024.01 – 2026.02
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Advisor: Prof. Seungryul Baek
- Bimanual Category-agnostic Hand-Object Interaction Reconstruction (CVPR 2025, ECCV 2024 Workshop)
- Iterative Classification-based Hand Pose Refinement (IPIU 2026)
- Single-image Feed-forward Gaussian Hand Avatar Reconstruction (NeurIPS 2026)

[C] Conference [W] Workshop [D] Domestic Conference (South Korea) [T] Technical Report

[C2] InstantHand: Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting for Animatable Hand Avatar Reconstruction from a Single Image
Chanho Kim, Muhammad Salman Ali, Kyeonghwan Gwak, Muhammad Shaheryar, Incheol Park, Jeongwan On, Seungryul Baek
The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026
[W1] MathLoopBench: Evaluating Agentic Mathematical Discovery Loops
Kyeonghwan Gwak
The 6th Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI (NeurIPS Workshop MATH-AI) 2026
[D1] 3D Hand Pose Refinement via Iterative Classification
Kyeonghwan Gwak, Seungryul Baek
The 38th Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU) 2026
[C1] BIGS: Bimanual Category-agnostic Interaction Reconstruction from Monocular Videos via 3D Gaussian Splatting
Jeongwan On, Kyeonghwan Gwak, Gunyoung Kang, Junuk Cha, Soohyun Hwang, Hyein Hwang, Seungryul Baek
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025
[T1] 1st Place Solution to the 8th HANDS Workshop Challenge - ARCTIC Track
Jeongwan On, Kyeonghwan Gwak, Gunyoung Kang, Hyein Hwang, Soohyun Hwang, Junuk Cha, Jaewook Han, Seungryul Baek
The 8th Workshop on Observing and Understanding Hands in Action (ECCV Workshop HANDS) 2024

AI Challenge Award (Top 20) at the SK hynix AI Hackathon 2026, 2026.11
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Award, UNIST Outstanding Graduate Award, 2026.02
Summa Cum Laude, UNIST, 2026.02
2nd prize at the UNIST Artificial Intelligence Challengers Program (AICP) 2024, 2024.12
1st place at the 8th HANDS workshop challenge - ARCTIC track held in ECCV 2024, 2024.09
National Excellence Scholarship (STEM), Ministry of Science and ICT, 2024 – 2025
Academic Excellence Scholarship, UNIST, 2022 – 2025