Sumin YU

Seoul National University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ysmsoomin@snu.ac.kr

I am a Master’s student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, supervised by Prof. Taesup Moon.

I received my B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, where my undergraduate thesis focused on algorithmic fairness for Alzheimer’s disease prediction.

My research has focused on AI ethics (with an emphasis on algorithmic fairness) and AI safety (including safe image generation in generative models and safety evaluation of multimodal large language models). More recently, I have been moving toward the intersection of AI technology, policy, and governance, aiming to bridge technical research with broader societal and regulatory perspectives.

Research Interests

Ensuring safe and trustworthy AI, with a focus on algorithmic fairness, bias, and privacy risks.

AI governance and accountability for responsible and trustworthy AI.

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Education

Seoul National University

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
May 2023 - Present

Seoul National University

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

GPA: 3.95/4.3 (Summa Cum Laude)
Thesis: “Achieving Rawls’ Fairness for MRI-based Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction”

May 2019 - Feb 2023

Pubications

Sumin Yu*, Hyunwoong Bae*, Taesup Moon. "Revisiting VLLM Safety Evaluation: Disentangling Benign Grounding from True Safety Failures in VLLMs." the Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy Multimodal AI Systems at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.

Sumin Yu*, Taesup Moon. "SP-Guard: Selective Prompt-adaptive Guidance for Safe Text-to-Image Generation." the European Workshop on Trustworthy AI at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2025. [paper].

Sangwon Jung*, Sumin Yu*, Sanghyuk Chun, Taesup Moon. "Do Counterfactually Fair Image Classifiers Satisfy Group Fairness?--A Theoretical and Empirical Study." Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024. [paper].


Experience

Consultant, AI Ethics Guideline Task Force

Seoul National University AI Policy Initiative (SAPI)

Supervised by Prof. Sangchul Park

Aug 2025 - Present

SNU Tomorrow’s Edge Membership (STEM), Honor Society

College of Engineering, SNU
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023

Research Intern at Seoul National University

M.IN.D lab

Supervised by Prof. Taesup Moon & Dr. Sangwon Jung

Sep 2022 - Feb 2023

Student Society for Social Responsibility, SNU Social Responsibility

Member (2019.09 - 2020.08); President (2020.01 - 2020.08)
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020

Honors & Awards

SNU Summa Cum Laude

Seoul National University
Feb 2023

Full Scholarship

Cho Chang-seok Cultural Foundation
2019 – 2022