Chaewon Moon

M.S. student at KAIST

Visiting Student at CMU

chaewonm [AT] andrew.cmu.edu

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About

I am a Master's student at KAIST AI, advised by Prof. Chulhee Yun. I am currently a visiting student at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, I completed my B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at Seoul National University. My research interests lie in understanding modern machine learning systems through theoretical and optimization-based perspectives, with a particular focus on how data, training algorithms, and post-training procedures shape model behavior.

Publications

Gradient Clipping at and Beyond the Edge of Stability

Chaewon Moon, Chulhee Yun, Sewoong Oh

Manuscript

Machine Unlearning with a Destination: Tracking a Minimizer Path to the Retain-Only Objective

Chaewon Moon, Yeseul Cho, Chulhee Yun

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT 2026)

Minor First, Major Last: A Depth-Induced Implicit Bias of Sharpness-Aware Minimization

Chaewon Moon, Dongkuk Si, Chulhee Yun

ICLR 2026

Deep Model-Based Optimization of Jamming Effectiveness under Aircraft AESA Radar Operational Environments

Hanseul Cho, Baekrok Shin, Chaewon Moon, Sang-Geun Hong, U-Ju Byeon, Jin-Yong Sung, Chulhee Yun

J-KICS

The Cost of Robustness: Tighter Bounds on Parameter Complexity for Robust Memorization in ReLU Nets

Yujun Kim*, Chaewon Moon*, Chulhee Yun

NeurIPS 2025

ICML 2025 Workshop on High-dimensional Learning Dynamics (HiLD)

KAIA Outstanding Paper Award at KAIA Summer Conference 2025 (CKAIA 2025)

Gradient Clipping at and Beyond the Edge of Stability

Chaewon Moon, Chulhee Yun, Sewoong Oh

Manuscript

Machine Unlearning with a Destination: Tracking a Minimizer Path to the Retain-Only Objective

Chaewon Moon, Yeseul Cho, Chulhee Yun

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT 2026)

Minor First, Major Last: A Depth-Induced Implicit Bias of Sharpness-Aware Minimization

Chaewon Moon, Dongkuk Si, Chulhee Yun

ICLR 2026

Deep Model-Based Optimization of Jamming Effectiveness under Aircraft AESA Radar Operational Environments

Hanseul Cho, Baekrok Shin, Chaewon Moon, Sang-Geun Hong, U-Ju Byeon, Jin-Yong Sung, Chulhee Yun

J-KICS

The Cost of Robustness: Tighter Bounds on Parameter Complexity for Robust Memorization in ReLU Nets

Yujun Kim*, Chaewon Moon*, Chulhee Yun

NeurIPS 2025

Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

M.S. in Artificial IntelligenceSep. 2024 - Present

Seoul National University (SNU)

B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2024

Experience

Carnegie Mellon UniversityAug. 2026 - Present

Visiting Student

Optimization & Machine Learning Laboratory, KAIST AIOct. 2023 - Aug. 2024

Research Intern, advised by Prof. Chulhee Yun

GERAD, Polytechnique MontrealFeb. 2022 - Jul. 2022

Research Intern, advised by Prof. Brunilde Sansò

Big Data AI Center, Seoul National UniversityJun. 2021 - Aug. 2021

Research Intern, advised by Prof. Sungzoon Cho

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer ICLR 2027, NeurIPS 2026 (Top Reviewer, top 8%)