Research to Practice
We publish at top AI conferences.
Then we apply it to real infrastructure.
Why Research Matters
Most infrastructure companies rely on best practices and experience. We add mathematical rigor and AI innovation.
Our research isn't academic exercise - it's the foundation for better infrastructure delivery.
Publications
2024-2025
CostNav: A Navigation Benchmark for Cost-Aware Evaluation of Embodied Agents
Haebin Seong*, et al. (*equal contribution)
arXiv, November 2024
Economic modeling for autonomous systems. First benchmark evaluating robots by profit, not just task success.
HarmAug: Effective Data Augmentation for Knowledge Distillation of Safety Guard Models
Seanie Lee*, Haebin Seong*, et al.
ICLR 2025
SafeRoute: Adaptive Model Selection for Efficient and Accurate Safety Guardrails
Seanie Lee*, Dong Bok Lee*, et al. (Haebin Seong co-author)
ACL 2025
Dynamic model selection for AI safety applications.
D2E: Scaling Vision-Action Pretraining on Desktop Data for Transfer to Embodied AI
Suhwan Choi*, Jaeyoon Jung*, Haebin Seong*, et al.
arXiv, 2024
Transfer learning from desktop environments to robotics. 96.6% success on manipulation tasks.
Research Areas
🤖 Embodied AI & Robotics
- • Economic modeling
- • Cost-aware decision making
- • Navigation and automation
- • Vision-action learning
🛡️ AI Safety & Security
- • LLM guardrails
- • Red-teaming and jailbreak defense
- • Efficient safety models
- • Secure AI deployment
⚙️ Infrastructure Optimization
- • Cost modeling frameworks
- • Resource allocation
- • Predictive analytics
- • Performance optimization
From Research to Product
How We Apply Research
1. Publish & Validate
Peer-reviewed research at top conferences. Academic rigor, proven approaches.
2. Prototype & Test
Apply to internal infrastructure first. Validate in controlled environments.
3. Pilot Deployment
Early customer projects. Real-world validation and refinement.
4. Production Service
Full service offering. Proven, reliable, scalable.
• Cost modeling: Pilot deployments ✓
• Predictive maintenance: Early testing
• Infrastructure automation: Research → Prototype
Research Background
Our team members bring experience from these institutions:
- • KAIST (Machine Learning and AI Lab)
- • Maum.AI (WoRV Team)
- • Theori (AI Security)
- • Yonsei University
- • Postech (Laboratory for Unix Security)