Peer Mentoring and Study Sessions
Organizing cross-major mentoring and study sessions to support students' academic, research, and internship goals.
Admitted to the M.S. in Computer Science program at the University of Maryland.
Incoming M.S. Student & Researcher
Hyunwoo Jae
I am a Computer Science student at the University of Maryland, College Park, expected to continue into the M.S. program after my B.S., and I work on efficient reasoning, multimodal benchmarks, embodied AI, and robotic perception.
My recent work studies KV cache compression for reasoning models, programmatically controllable multimodal reasoning environments, and embodied navigation and question answering across simulated 3D worlds.
News
Began work on Tiamat-Benchmark, designing embodied multi-modal navigation and question-answering tasks across AI2-THOR, MP3D, and Isaac Sim environments.
KV cache project appearing at the NeurIPS 2025 Efficient Reasoning Workshop.
Started as a researcher at Swell, developing full-stack architecture and AI tools for a Q-EDA platform for superconducting circuits.
Joined the Furong Huang Research Lab, contributing to research on efficient reasoning, multimodal benchmarks.
Education
M.S. in Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
Fall 2026 - Expected Spring 2027 | College Park, MD
B.S. in Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
Minor in Mathematics. Dean's List 2024-2025. GPA: 3.87/4.00.
Spring 2024 - Spring 2026 | College Park, MD
Experience
Swell
Researcher
Developing a Q-EDA platform for superconducting circuits, with a focus on full-stack architecture and AI tools for FEM simulation workflows.
May 2025 - Feb 2026
Korean Undergraduate Student Association
Event Chair, University of Maryland
Re-registered and relaunched KUSA events, organized cross-major mentoring and study sessions, and expanded community engagement.
Aug 2024 - May 2026 | College Park, MD
Econexenc
Software Developer
Built a document management system with Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, MariaDB, SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024 | Ori, South Korea
English for Life
Software Developer
Developed a bilingual web application for academy introduction, course enrollment, and inquiry workflows.
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022 | Seoul, South Korea
Eunhye Community Childcare Center
Social Service Agent
Supported child welfare programming and provided academic help in math and English to underprivileged children.
Mar 2022 - Dec 2023 | South Korea
Research
Furong Huang Research Lab | NeurIPS 2025 Efficient Reasoning Workshop; submitted to ICLR 2026
Hold Onto That Thought: Assessing KV Cache Compression on Reasoning
Studying how cache compression changes reasoning accuracy, latency, and memory use across Llama, Nemotron, DeepSeek-R1-Distill, GSM8K, MATH500, and other reasoning benchmarks.
Furong Huang Research Lab
Tiamat-Benchmark: Embodied Multi-Modal Navigation and Question Answering
Designing embodied agent tasks across seven scenarios using AI2-THOR, MP3D, and Isaac Sim 4.2. Leading outdoor scene generation, automated floor-map pipelines, exploration simulation, synthetic navigation videos, and question-answer annotations.
Furong Huang Research Lab | arXiv:2506.05523
MORSE: A Suite of Programmatically Controllable Multimodal Reasoning Environments
Contributed to MORSE-500 and developed physical reasoning data with Manim and Matplotlib, supporting difficulty scaling across entity complexity, reasoning depth, distractor density, temporal complexity, and visual complexity.
UMD Bioinspired Robotics Lab
Hedwig: Flapping Wing Robot
Worked on an owl-wing drone platform for silent flight and fire detection. Redesigned the fire-detection pipeline for noisy, low-resolution field video and fine-tuned YOLOv8 to 94% test accuracy under deployment constraints.
Teaching
Math and English Academic Support
Provided academic support in math and English to underprivileged children while serving as a social service agent in South Korea.