Publications: 'Emergence of Text Readability in Vision Language Models' (EVAL FoMo Workshop @ CVPR 2025), 'Hierarchical Visual Feature Aggregation for OCR-Free Document Understanding' (NeurIPS 2024), etc.; Awards: Outstanding Reviewer (CVPR 2024), Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea 2023 Winner, Youlchon AI Star Scholarship (2023); Academic Services: Journal reviewer for TPAMI, CVIU, MVAP; Conference reviewer for CVPR, NeurIPS, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, ICML, and IROS
Research Experience
Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon AGI, July 2025 – October 2025, Manager: Davide Modolo, Mentors: Yanbei Chen, Siddharth Choudhary; Research Intern, Naver AI Lab, June 2024 – November 2024, Mentors & Collaborators: Wonjae Kim, Sanghyuk Chun, Sangdoo Yun
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Sept. 2018 – Current, Advisor: Prof. Bohyung Han; B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Mar. 2012 – Aug. 2018; Military Service: Aug. 2014 – Aug. 2016
Background
Ph.D. student in computer vision at SNU Computer Vision Lab, advised by Prof. Bohyung Han. Interested in computer vision and deep learning, with a focus on multi-modal understanding and video analysis under limited conditions like continual learning, self-supervised learning, and weakly-supervised learning. Recently, also studying the representation of text in images, investigating its interaction with visual elements and developing methods for effective extraction and utilization.