Javad Ismayilzada

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I am a fourth year undergraduate at KAIST, double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. Currently, I am Undergraduate Researcher at NLP*CL Lab advised by Professor Jong C. Park where I work on evaluating and improving the reliability of multimodal language models. My research interests center around multimodal and generative AI, including but not limited to alignment and interpretability.

Previously, I worked as Undergraduate Research Intern at U&I Lab adviced by Professsor Alice Oh, focusing on benchmarking and detecting model bias which led to Outstanding Paper Award Paper at Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP) at NAACL2025.

I also had industry experince building generative workflows at Google Startup Campus at Smoretalk Co.,Ltd , and building agentic systems at Big Wave AI Co.,Ltd.

Outside of research, I enjoy bouldering and solving competitive math olympiad problems.

news

Mar 01, 2026 Joined the NLP & Computational Linguistics Lab at KAIST as a research intern.
Dec 21, 2025 Joined Big Wave AI as an AI Architect & Data Scientist to work on agent logic, workflow orchestration, and RAG pipelines.
Jun 22, 2025 Joined SmoreTalk at Google AI Academy as an AI engineer to work on generative AI workflows.
Mar 01, 2025 Our paper on cultural bias in multimodal LLMs received an Outstanding Paper Award at C3NLP (NAACL 2025)! 🎉
Sep 01, 2024 Started a semester as an exchange student at TU Berlin, Faculty IV (Computer Science).

selected publications

  1. NAACL
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    When Tom Eats Kimchi: Evaluating Cultural Awareness of Multimodal Large Language Models in Cultural Mixture Contexts
    Jun Seong Kim, Kyaw Ye Thu, Javad Ismayilzada, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP 2025)
    🏆 Outstanding Paper Award, C3NLP @ NAACL 2025 , May 2025
    arXiv