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.

Journal

RA-L'24RA-L 2024
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
2024
IJMRCAS'24IJMRCAS 2024
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
2024

Conference

NeurIPS'26GLINT NeurIPS 2026
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
2026
MICCAI'25OFF-CLIP MICCAI 2025
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%
2025
IROS'25IROS 2025
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
2025
IROS'24IROS 2024
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
2024
CHIL'24CHIL 2024
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%
2024

Preprints

arXiv'26SD-GRPO 2026
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
2026
arXiv'26SSTL 2026
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
2026
arXiv'26Markerless 6D Pose 2026
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
2026

Challenges

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

Honors & Awards

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

Experience

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

Education

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

Professional Services

Reviewer
MICCAI (2025); IEEE RA-L, IEEE/RSJ IROS (2024)
Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate Research Group Project (2025); Artificial Intelligence Basics (2024)

© Junhyun Park · Last updated October 2026