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3 <div id="park2026interpretable" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Interpretable Geometry Sensitivity for Inverse Design of Integrated Photonics</div> <div class="author"> Junho Park<sup>*</sup>, <strong class="author-self">Taehan Kim<sup>*</sup></strong>, Mohammad Ali, and <span class="more-authors" title="click to view 1 more author" onclick=" var element=$(this); element.attr('title', ''); var more_authors_text=element.text() == '1 more author' ? 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Leung, <strong class="author-self">Taehan Kim</strong>, and Jeongbin Park </div> <div class="links"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21830" class="btn btn-sm z-depth-0" role="button" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">arXiv</a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> <abbr class="badge rounded w-100">ICPR</abbr> </div> <div id="seo2026automated" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Automated Visualization Code Synthesis via Multi-Path Reasoning and Feedback-Driven Optimization</div> <div class="author"> Wonduk Seo, D. Kang, H. An, and <span class="more-authors" title="click to view 2 more authors" onclick=" var element=$(this); element.attr('title', ''); var more_authors_text=element.text() == '2 more authors' ? 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Langeberg, <strong class="author-self">Taehan Kim</strong>, Roma Nagle, and <span class="more-authors" title="click to view 4 more authors" onclick=" var element=$(this); element.attr('title', ''); var more_authors_text=element.text() == '4 more authors' ? 'Charlotte Meredith, Dimple Amitha Garuadapuri, Jennifer A. Doudna<sup>â </sup>, Jamie H. D. 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