I am a PhD student in the MLAI Lab at KAIST, advised by Prof. Sung Ju Hwang.
I completed my MS in the same group and received my BS in Computer Science from KAIST.
My research interest is to extend the successes of machine learning to the physical world, with a focus on reinforcement learning and pre-training for efficient RL.

Publications

SpeedAug: Policy Acceleration via Tempo-Enriched Policy and RL Fine-Tuning

arXiv 2025 [paper]
Taewook Nam, Sung Ju Hwang

LiFT: Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning with Foundation Models as Teachers

NeurIPS 2023 Workshop ALOE [paper] [code]
Taewook Nam, Juyong Lee, Jesse Zhang, Sung Ju Hwang, Joseph J Lim, Karl Pertsch

Skill-Based Meta-Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2022 [paper] [project] [code]
Taewook Nam, Shao-Hua Sun, Karl Pertsch, Sung Ju Hwang, Joseph J. Lim

Meta Dropout : Learning to Perturb Latent Features For Generalization

ICLR 2020 [paper] [code]
Taewook Nam, Shao-Hua Sun, Karl Pertsch, Sung Ju Hwang, Joseph J. Lim