Speech & Interactive AI Laboratory

News

[Aug 2026] Congratulations!🎉 SIA Lab has been selected for the 「2026 한국연구재단 개인기초연구사업 - 핵심연구(기본연구B)」 for the period from Sep. 2026 to Aug. 2027. 

[Aug 2026] Congratulations!🎉 Three of our papers have been accepted to EMNLP 2026 Main Conference. 

[Jun 2026] Congratulations!🎉 SIA Lab has been selected for the 「NVIDIA Academic Grant Program」 and has received 4 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q Workstation Edition GPUs. 

[Jun 2026] Congratulations!🎉 Two of our papers have been accepted to INTERSPEECH 2026, one as a Regular Paper and one as a Long Paper, with the Long Paper selected for an oral presentation. 

[May 2026] Congratulations!🎉 SIA Lab has been selected for NIPA’s 「첨단 GPU 활용 지원 사업」 and granted access to three NVIDIA B200 nodes (24 GPUs) from May to Jul. 2026 for the project “1인칭 시점 환경에서의 능동 제안형 멀티모달 에이전트 연구.”

[Apr 2026] Congratulations!🎉 One of our papers has been accepted as an ACL 2026 Main Conference

[Mar 2026] SIA Lab opens at University of Seoul. Prof. Heeseung Kim joins the Department of Artificial Intelligence as an Assistant Professor.

About

At SIA Lab, we explore how AI can communicate with humans in the most natural way: through speech. Our core research focuses on speech-based AI that can listen, understand, and speak in real-time, just like humans do in everyday conversations. 

Starting from speech, we are expanding into broader modalities including audio, video, and text to build AI that can fully perceive and engage with the world. Our long-term vision is to create intelligent agents that can perceive, reason, and act autonomously and proactively alongside humans in everyday life.