Junseo Kim

Hello, I'm Junseo Kim.

I'm an integrated M.S./Ph.D. student at Seoul National University, advised by Professor Gunhee Kim. My research aims to build human-centered, trustworthy agents that understand the world both socially and physically, and that act and communicate consistently with what they know and the norms they should uphold.

My work is rooted in cognitive reasoning, the study of how agents think. My interests run across a few connected threads:

• Social intelligence. How agents read intentions and relationships, and navigate deception, persuasion, social hierarchies, and intimacy.
• Knowing-doing gap. Why an agent that knows the right action can still fail to take it.
• Physical common sense. Grounding agents in causal world models of embodied environments, as a step toward physical intelligence.
• Conversational behavior gap. The divide between what an agent intends and how it actually communicates.

Currently, my research centers on the knowing-doing gap and physical common sense.