Published multiple high-impact papers including ICML 2024, CVPR 2024, WACV 2024 (oral, best paper finalist), TPAMI 2023, etc.
IPIU Best Paper Award (2024) for '3D Geometric Shape Assembly via Efficient Point Cloud Matching'.
CSE Outstanding Research Award and Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award at POSTECH (2024).
Google PhD Fellowship (2022) in Machine Perception, Speech Technology, and Computer Vision.
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea (2021) for 'Convolutional Hough Matching Networks'.
BK21 Outstanding Paper Awards (2022, 2023) and NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship Award (2020).
Regular reviewer for top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, TPAMI, IJCV); recognized as Outstanding Reviewer (top 5%) at CVPR 2022 and ICCV 2021.
Webmaster for International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019.
Research Experience
Senior Researcher, Samsung Research America, Mountain View, CA (Feb 2025 – present). Focus: vision-language models for edge devices. Collaborating with Suren Kumar.
Postdoctoral Researcher, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea (Mar 2024 – Jan 2025). Focus: foundation models for robotics. Worked with Prof. Minsu Cho.
Student Researcher, Google Research, Grenoble, France (Jul 2023 – Mar 2024). Focus: modular reasoning for video question answering. Collaborated with Shyamal Buch, Arsha Nagrani, and Cordelia Schmid. Published CVPR paper 'MoReVQA'.
Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia (Remote) (Oct 2021 – Apr 2022). Focus: biologically inspired image representation learning. Collaborated with Yucheng Zhao and Chong Luo. Published NeurIPS paper 'PerViT'.
Interim Associate Software Engineer, Electronic Arts Korea Inc., Seoul (Jan 2018 – Mar 2018). Developed and maintained FIFA Online 3 client/front-end UI modules.