Project

Funding in 2026: KRW 242,000,000  ·  Cumulative: KRW 502,000,000

Amounts in parentheses are the share attributed to this lab. Where a project is shared, the lab share is given first and the full award second, and only the lab share is counted toward the totals above.

Ongoing Projects

(2026.07 - 2029.06) Basic Research Laboratory: Tactile Foundation Models for Robotics (KRW 375,000,000 of KRW 1,500,000,000)

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Basic Research Laboratory program, conducted jointly by four principal investigators over three years. PI: Sungwoo Chun.

  • Total award KRW 500,000,000 per year, KRW 1,500,000,000 over three years
  • Held jointly by four PIs; this lab holds a one-quarter share, KRW 125,000,000 per year
National Research Foundation of Korea

(2026.05 - 2027.02) Korea-Singapore (NTU) International Joint Research Planning: VLM-based AI Science Education Platform (KRW 20,000,000)

Planning project for a Korea-Singapore (NTU) international collaboration on an AI science education platform built on science-education-aligned vision-language models (VLM).

  • Partner: Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Nanyang Technological University

(2026.05 - 2026.10) LLM-based Knowledge Tracing Model Research, Phase 2 (KRW 20,000,000)

Continuation of the Phase 1 knowledge tracing project, focused on dataset and benchmark construction. Output: "BuddyBench: A Privacy-Constrained Multi-Task Benchmark for Pediatric Social-Communication Personalization"

Neudive

(2026) International Collaboration with UCL (KRW 10,000,000 of KRW 20,000,000)

Collaborative research with Prof. Sungyong Lee at University College London (UCL).

  • Korea University internal research funding
  • Total award KRW 20,000,000; this lab holds KRW 10,000,000
  • Partner: University College London (UCL)
University College London

(2026) Lab Start-up Fund (KRW 27,000,000)

Start-up funding for establishing the lab at Korea University Sejong Campus.

Korea University

(2026) Industry-Academia Joint Project (KRW 30,000,000)

Industry-academia collaborative research project under the SW-Oriented University program.

Korea University

Completed Projects

(2026.03 - 2026.04) ISD-Agent-Bench Research (KRW 10,000,000)

Based on our preprint: "ISD-Agent-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-based Instructional Design Agents" (arXiv:2602.10620).

Upstage

(2025.10 - 2025.12) LLM-based Knowledge Tracing Model Research (KRW 10,000,000)

Research on knowledge tracing models leveraging large language models. Output: "A Training-Free Large Reasoning Model-based Knowledge Tracing Framework for Unified Prediction and Prescription" (Thinking-KT)

Neudive