Junhyun Park

Researcher, DEEPNOID · M.S., DGIST (2026)

I am an AI researcher at DEEPNOID (alternative military service), working on medical foundation models for chest X-ray, CT, and MRI — vision-language modeling, self-supervised learning, and report generation.

I received my M.S. in Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering and B.E. in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (double major, summa cum laude) from DGIST, advised by Prof. Minho Hwang. In the summer of 2023, I interned at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, advised by Prof. Synho Do and Prof. Kyungsu Kim.

My research aims toward fully automated surgical pipelines — AI-driven diagnosis from medical imaging, coupled with continuum manipulators that navigate natural orifices to perform scar-free interventions.

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News

Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

Type
Domain

Journal

RA-L'24RA-L 2024
Surgical Robotics Hysteresis Compensation
Hysteresis Compensation of Flexible Continuum Manipulator using RGBD Sensing and Temporal Convolutional Network
Junhyun Park*, Seonghyeok Jang*, Hyojae Park, Seongjun Bae, Minho Hwang
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 9, no. 7, 2024
IJMRCAS'24IJMRCAS 2024
Surgical Robotics Hysteresis Compensation
SAM: Semi-Active Mechanism for Extensible Continuum Manipulator and Real-time Hysteresis Compensation Control Algorithm
Junhyun Park*, Seonghyeok Jang*, Myeongbo Park, Hyojae Park, Jeonghyeon Yoon, Minho Hwang
International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (IJMRCAS), 2024

Conference

NeurIPS'26GLINT NeurIPS 2026
Medical AI VLP
GLINT: Sparsely Gated Vision-Language Alignment for Fine-Grained Radiology Representations
Jonggwon Park*, Seongeun Lee*, Junhyun Park, Hannah Yun, Hyunwoong Kim, Sohyun Jeong, Hyewon Kang, Byungmu Yoon, Kyoyun Choi
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
MICCAI'25OFF-CLIP MICCAI 2025
Medical AI VLP
OFF-CLIP: Improving Normal Detection Confidence in Radiology CLIP with Simple Off-Diagonal Term Auto-Adjustment
Junhyun Park*, Chanyu Moon*, Donghwan Lee, Kyungsu Kim, Minho Hwang
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2025
Early Accept — Top 9% · Acceptance rate 30%
IROS'25IROS 2025
Surgical Robotics Hysteresis Compensation Tendon-Sheath Mechanism
Vibration-Assisted Hysteresis Mitigation for Achieving High Compensation Efficiency
Myeongbo Park*, Chunggil An*, Junhyun Park*, Jonghyun Kang, Minho Hwang
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
IROS'24IROS 2024
Surgical Robotics
Optimizing Base Placement of Surgical Robot: Kinematics Data-Driven Approach by Analyzing Working Pattern
Jeonghyeon Yoon*, Junhyun Park*, Hyojae Park, Hakyoon Lee, Sangwon Lee, Minho Hwang
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
CHIL'24CHIL 2024
Medical AI LLM
Integrating ChatGPT into Secure Hospital Networks: A Case Study on Improving Radiology Report Analysis
Kyungsu Kim*, Junhyun Park*, Saul Langarica, Adham Mahmoud Alkhadrawi, Synho Do
Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL), 2024
Acceptance rate 34%

Preprints

arXiv'26SD-GRPO 2026
RL VLM
SD-GRPO: Verifiable Segment Decomposition for Long-Form Vision-Language Generation
Hyunwoong Kim, Seongeun Lee, Hannah Yun, Junhyun Park, Jonggwon Park
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2606.09871, 2026
arXiv'26SSTL 2026
Surgical Robotics Hysteresis Compensation Tendon-Sheath Mechanism
SSTL: Self-Sensing Tendon Loop for Hysteresis Modeling and Compensation in Tendon-Sheath Mechanisms
Myeongbo Park*, Junhyun Park*, Ihsan Ullah, Chunggil An, Minho Hwang
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2605.16870, 2026
arXiv'26Markerless 6D Pose 2026
Surgical Robotics Pose Estimation
MarUco: A Markerless 6D Pose Estimation Framework for Closed-Loop Control of Surgical Continuum Manipulators
Junhyun Park*, Chunggil An*, Myeongbo Park, Ihsan Ullah, Sihyeong Park, Minho Hwang
arXiv preprint, arXiv:2602.16365, 2026

Challenges

VLM3D 2026, MICCAI — MRI Abnormality Classification 1st place
Sep 2026
VLM3D 2026, MICCAI — CT Abnormality Classification 2nd place
Sep 2026
TREAT-MMTB 2026, MICCAI — Task 2: TB Diagnosis 2nd place
Paper
Aug 2026
TREAT-MMTB 2026, MICCAI — Task 1: Cavity Detection and Segmentation 3rd place
Paper
Aug 2026

Experience

DEEPNOID, AI Research Lab — Multimodal Team
Researcher (Alternative Military Service)
Medical foundation models for CXR, CT, and MRI: VLM, SSL, and report generation.
Feb 2026 — Present
DGIST, Surgical Robotics and Robot Manipulation Lab
Graduate / Undergraduate Researcher
Advisor: Prof. Minho Hwang.
Dec 2021 — Feb 2026
Harvard Medical School, Lab of Medical Imaging and Computation
Research Intern
Advisors: Prof. Synho Do, Prof. Kyungsu Kim.
Jul 2023 — Aug 2023

Education

DGIST
M.S., Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Minho Hwang · GPA: 4.25 / 4.3
Feb 2024 — Feb 2026
DGIST
B.E., Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (Double Major)
GPA: 4.07 / 4.3 · Summa Cum Laude, Valedictorian
Feb 2020 — Feb 2024

Honors & Awards

Best Oral Presentation Award [1st place], KoSAIM 2026
Korean Society of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
“Sparse-Gated Alignment in Vision–Language Pretraining Improves Zero-Shot Classification and Localization of Chest Findings on Radiographs and CT”
Oct 2026
Talent Award of Korea, Minister of Education
National award to 100 outstanding young talents annually.
Dec 2025
Best Researcher Award [top 1%], Dept. of RME, DGIST
One of two graduate students selected annually in the Department of Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST.
Jan 2025
Excellence Poster Award, Dept. of RME, DGIST
Jan 2025
IPESK Next Generation Engineering Researcher
Jan 2025
Outstanding Paper Award [top 2.2%]
The 18th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference.
Feb 2023
Korea Presidential Science Scholarship, President of Korea
Jun 2022 — Feb 2024
DGIST Presidential Fellowship [top 1%], President of DGIST
Awarded to only 2 students per cohort at DGIST.
Apr 2021 — Feb 2024
Korean College Mathematics Competition [silver medal], Korean Mathematical Society
Dec 2020
Dean's List, DGIST
Spring/Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Spring/Fall 2023.
2020 — 2023

Professional Services

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