Jisu Han

Hi, I'm Jisu! I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) at Seoul National University, and a member of the M.IN.D Lab, where I am fortunate to be advised by Taesup Moon.

I obtained my Master's Degree in the Graduate School of AI at KAIST, in the Humanoid Generalization Lab directed by Beomjoon Kim. I received my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Ewha Womans University. I was fortunate to work with Joseph Lim and Jaeheung Park.

Jisu Han

Inspired by the coexistence portrayed in Detroit: Become Human, I want to build cognitive systems that learn through experience and adapt to the people sharing their environment. I view skills as flexible abstractions that agents represent, ground in context, and update through experience. My central interest is how scene understanding can guide changes in a robot's motions and subgoals, enabling capable, predictable, and human-aware behavior throughout long-horizon tasks.

① Representation
What is a skill made of? — language, trajectory, policy, effect, and context
② Grounding
How should a skill adapt to a new scene — and how should its people, objects, and activities shape the robot's motion?
③ Update
Can an agent recognize failures, then refine its skills or learn new ones through experience?

I study how LLMs, VLMs, and VLAs can connect scene understanding with adaptive action. Around people, the same task may require a robot to pause, change its approach, or revise a subgoal as the scene changes. Does context actually influence the motion a robot executes? I investigate how to evaluate this capability across tasks and embodiments, and how those evaluations can inform interpretable policies for long-horizon adaptation.

🤖 Humanoid Cognition where I see this heading — a body that thinks and adapts for itself, sharing the spaces we live and work in.
🏠household 🏥hospital 📦warehouse 🚀space
Detroit: Become Human — the coexistence I imagine

Each paper below is tagged by where it sits on that loop.

* denotes equal contribution

SafeHRI-Nav
SafeHRI-Nav: A Context-Aware Low-Level Safe Navigation Benchmark for Human-Robot Interaction
Authors anonymized during review
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on Semantic-Aware Mapping and Navigation (SeMaNa), 2026 · Submitted to ICLR 2027
GroundingVisionRobot
OTA
Option-aware Temporally Abstracted Value for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Hongjoon Ahn*, Heewoong Choi*, Jisu Han*, Taesup Moon
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025 Spotlight
RepresentationRobot
HAMNet
Hierarchical and Modular Network on Non-prehensile Manipulation in General Environments
Yoonyoung Cho*, Junhyek Han*, Jisu Han, Beomjoon Kim
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025
GroundingRepresentationRobot
GoS
Adaptive visual abstraction via object token merging and pruning for efficient robot manipulation
Jisu Han
CVPR Workshop (Causal and Object-Centric Representations for Robotics), 2024 Oral
GroundingVisionRobot
POMDPs
Preference learning for guiding the tree search in continuous POMDPs
Jiyong Ahn, Sanghyeon Son, Dongryung Lee, Jisu Han, Dongwon Son, and Beomjoon Kim
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023
GroundingRepresentationRobot
Chess Robot Teacher
Real-world Chess Robot Teacher
Jisu Han, Chaehyun Song, Minjae Song, Hwancheol Kim, and Semin Ahn
2025 Fall Class Project
Real-world robotic teacher system capable of teaching chess in physical environments. Qwen3-VL-Thinking model for Chess reasoning, and Isaac-Gr00T for action reasoning.
RepresentationGroundingLanguageVisionRobot
WraspRobot
WraspRobot: Bug-catching Robot
Jisu Han, Jaehoon Choi, Gunwoo Choi, and Dongwook Lee
Huggingface LeRobot WorldWide Hackathon, 2025 Top 10 Finalist among 3,000+ global participants
Clarifying the task
Clarifying the task: Identifying task from human videos as a representation
Jisu Han and Doohyun Lee
AI611: Machine Learning for Robotics (Prof. Joseph Lim) project, 2023
To learn a generalized reward function that can be utilized on reinforcement learning, we devise a representation that can effectively disentangle environment information and task information.
Cart MEME
Cart MEME: Deep Learning Based Autonomous-Driving Cart
Jisu Han, Jiyoon Park, Chaewon Kim, and Sangsoo Park
Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS), 2021
TheCodeEscape
TheCodeEscape: VR room escape game based on Unity3D and Oculus
Jisu Han, Minyeong Hwang, and Seoungwoon Jung
KAIST MadCamp Final Project, 2019
Teaching Experience
Fall 2026
Teaching Assistant, Issues in System Software (Graduate Seminar)
Seoul National University (Prof. Taesup Moon)
Coordinating seminar presentations, course administration, and attendance management.
Fall 2025
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Deep Learning
Seoul National University (Prof. Taesup Moon)
Selected as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant for contributions to course operation, student support, and project mentoring.
Research Experience
Jan 2025 – Aug 2025
Research Assistant, M.IN.D Lab
Seoul National University
Developed option-aware temporal abstraction methods for offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning, resulting in a NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper.
Sep 2024 – Nov 2024
Research Assistant, Cognitive Learning for Vision and Robotics Lab
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Research of analyzing the impact of data scaling on the performance of robotics policies
Jul 2021 – Aug 2022
Research Intern, Intelligent Mobile Manipulation Lab
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Research on interactive perception
Dec 2020 – Aug 2021
Research Intern, Dynamic Robotic Systems (DYROS) Lab
Seoul National University
Developed a deep learning based grasp solution, published a domestic paper
May 2019 – Jul 2019
Research Intern, Information Coding and Processing Lab
Ewha Womans University
Developed a drowsy driving prevention system based on the driver's eye-tracking system using OpenCV
Professional Service