Speech & Interactive AI Laboratory

News

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

[Aug 2026] Three of our papers have been accepted to EMNLP 2026 Main Conference, one for oral presentation and two as posters.

[Jun 2026] 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] 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] 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] 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 study how AI can perceive the world and interact with people as naturally as humans do. Our research spans three directions: interactive and proactive AI that understands what people are doing and helps at the right moment; generative models that create realistic and controllable content across modalities; and speech, audio, and music AI that hears, understands, and generates sound.

Our long-term goal is to build intelligent agents that perceive, reason, and act alongside people in everyday life, communicating with them in real time through natural conversation.