Hyeongheon Cha 🍓
Hyeongheon Cha

Ph.D. Student

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Networking & Mobile Systems Lab at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), advised by professor Sung-Ju Lee. I am currently a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia (2025-2026), advised by professor Lili Qiu. I was a research intern at InBody (2020), and I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST with Magna Cum Laude.

Passionate about developing on-device AI soulution, aim to create cutting-edge, adaptable, and efficient software for real-world environments.

Please reach out to collaborate 😃

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Interests
  • On-device Artificial Intelligence
  • Efficient Model Adaptation
  • Self-Supervised Learning
  • Mobile Sensing
Education
  • MS & PhD in Electrical Engineering

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

  • BS in Electrical Engineering

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

News
  • Nov. 2025 🌟 Won First Place at Microsoft Global Hackathon 2025
  • Oct. 2025 📝 First author paper 'SNAP' is accepted at NeurIPS '25
  • Mar. 2025 📝 Paper 'From Vision to Motion' is accepted at IEEE TMC
  • Jul. 2025 📚 Research Internship at Microsoft Research Asia, Shanghai, China
  • Jan. 2025 🌟 Recieved Inseong (Character) Scholarship at KAIST
  • Jun. 2024 ✈️ MobiSys '24 @ Tokyo, Japan (Jun. 3 - 7)
  • Jun. 2024 🌟 Graduate Student Council President of KAIST EE
  • Apr. 2024 📝 Poster 'TESLA' accepted at MobiSys '24
  • Aug. 2023 📝 Submitted paper 'Sherlock'
  • Mar. 2022 📚 Joined Networking & Mobile System Lab at KAIST
  • Feb. 2022 📚 Received B.S. degree at KAIST with Magna Cum Laude
  • Aug. 2020 📚 Research Internship (Team leader) at InBody.co., Seoul, Korea
Projects
Publications
(2025). SNAP: Low-Latency Test-Time Adaptation with Sparse Updates. The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS ‘25).
(2024). From Vision to Motion: Translating Large-Scale Knowledge for Data-Scarce IMU Applications. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
(2023). Sherlock: Automated Hidden Camera Detection with Shutter Speed Adaptation. Preprints.
Professional Experiences

07/2025 – 01/2026

Microsoft Resarch Asia, Wireless Communication and Sensing Group (Mentor: Lili Qiu)

Research Intern

Shanghai, China

02/2021 – 02/2022

KAIST, Network and Mobile System Lab

Undergraduate Research Intern

Daejeon, Republic of Korea

02/2020 – 08/2020

InBody Co., Future Innovation Team

Research Intern

Seoul, Republic of Korea

08/2019 – 09/2019

KAIST, Smart and Mobile System Lab

Individual Research Intern

Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Leadership Experiences

2024 – 2024

Graduate Student Council President

KAIST School of Electrical Engineering

2020 – 2020

Team Leader

InBody Co., Future Innovation Team

2018 – 2019

Undergraduate Student Council President

KAIST School of Electrical Engineering

2018 – 2019

Freshman Program Designer

Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Design and operate special classes and programs for KAIST freshmen

Honors

2022

Magna Cum Laude

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

2019

Noyeop Cultural Foundation Scholarship

Noyeop Cultural Foundation

One person per department, provided until graduation

2017

Dean's list

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Outstanding student in the department

Skills

Programming — Python, C, C++, Java

Machine Learning — Pytorch, Tensorflow, Tensorflow Lite

Hardware Prototyping — Arduino, RaspberryPi, Qorvo

Network Simulation — NS3 simulator