Seonghwan Seo

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

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I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry, KAIST, under the supervision of Prof. Woo Youn Kim.

My research area is AI-driven drug discovery, focusing on deep generative models for molecular design and in silico evaluation. During my Ph.D., I have specialized in integrating RL agent (RxnFlow) with autonomous laboratories to accelerate the discovery cycle.

Currently, I serve as the primary developer for K-Fold, a national project dedicated to biomolecular structure prediction. Moreover, I am extending my research into computational protein design, collaborating with Prof. Wengong Jin.

research highlights

Generative modeling

In silico evaluation

news

May 02, 2025 1 paper is accepted to ICML 2025: CGFlow
May 01, 2025 Hyper Screening X powered by RxnFlow has became a world’s largest virtual library search with access to eMolecules’ 11 trillion compound library (Blog).
Apr 01, 2025 1 paper is accepted as spotlight paper to ICLR 2025 GEM and AI4Mat Workshop: CGFlow
Jan 12, 2025 1 paper is accepted to ICLR 2025: RxnFlow
Nov 03, 2024 1 paper is accepted to Chemical Science: PharmacoNet

selected publications

  1. ICML
    Compositional Flows for 3D Molecule and Synthesis Pathway Co-design
    Tony Shen*Seonghwan Seo*, Ross Irwin, Kieran Didi, Simon Olsson, Woo Youn Kim, and Martin Ester
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025
    * Previously presented at ICLR AI4Mat and GEM Workshop 2025
  2. ICLR
    Generative Flows on Synthetic Pathway for Drug Design
    Seonghwan Seo, Minsu Kim, Tony Shen, Martin Ester, Jinkyoo Park, Sungsoo Ahn, and Woo Youn Kim
    In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
    * Previously presented at NeurIPS AIDrugX Workshop 2024
  3. TMLR
    TacoGFN: Target-conditioned GFlowNet for Structure-based Drug Design
    Tony Shen, Seonghwan Seo, Grayson Lee, Mohit Pandey, Jason R Smith, Artem Cherkasov, Woo Youn Kim, and Martin Ester
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024
  4. Adv. Sci.
    Molecular generative model via retrosynthetically prepared chemical building block assembly
    Seonghwan Seo, Jaechang Lim, and Woo Youn Kim
    Advanced Science, 2023
    IF: 15.1