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General Information

Full Name Jaeyeon Kim
Date of Birth November 2nd, 2001
Languages Korean, English

Education

  • 2024 - Present
    Ph.D. Student at Harvard University, Computer Science
    • Advised by Sitan Chen and Sham Kakade
  • 2020 - 2024
    B.S. at Seoul National University, Mathematics
    • GPA 4.23/4.30, Major GPA 4.30/4.30

Experience

  • 2022 - 2024
    Research Intern, Seoul National University
    • Worked on optimization theory under Ernest Ryu
  • 2023 Summer
    Research Intern, MIT (remote)
    • Worked on optimization theory under Asuman Ozdaglar

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    Outstanding Paper Award, ICML 2025
    • Awarded to the top 6 papers among 15,000 submissions
  • 2021
    3rd place, Simon Marais Mathematics Competition
    • Mathematics competition for university students in Asia
  • 2020 - 2021
    Gold Medal, Korean Undergraduate Mathematics Competition
    • Mathematics competition for undergraduate students in Korea
  • 2020 - 2023
    Presidential Science Scholarship
    • Scholarship for undergraduate students in Korea
  • 2019
    Romanian Masters of Mathematics
    • International mathematics competition for pre-university students
  • 2018 - 2019
    Korean Finalist for the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
    • Final-round students (13 students)

Teaching

  • 2025 Fall
    Computational Optimal Transport, Harvard University
  • 2024 Spring
    Machine Learning Theory, Seoul National University
  • 2023 Fall
    Mathematical Foundation of Deep Neural Networks, Seoul National University

Miscellaneous

  • 2025
    Vice President of the Harvard Graduate Korean Society
  • 2022
    Vice President of the Global Leadership Program
  • 2021
    Vice President of the Mathematics Department Student Association