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Education
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2021
Ph.D. in Artifical Intelligence
Ajou University, Korea
- Advised by Prof. Kyung-Ah Sohn
- Thesis: Toward an Efficient Deep Image Restoration Method
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2016
Bachelor of Media in Digital Media
Ajou University, Korea
Work Experience
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2021 - Now
AI Researcher
Webtoon AI, NAVER WEBTOON Corp.
- Research on building user-centric AI tools designed for cartoon creators
- Research on making portrait stylization method, WebtoonMe
- Research on user privacy-aware generative AI applications
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2019 - 2020
Visiting Researcher
Clova AI Research, NAVER Corp.
- Collaborated with Jaejun Yoo, Youngjung Uh and Yunjey Choi
- Resarched on developing data augmentation methods for super-resolution
- Developed label-efficient conditional generative models
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2018
Intern
Clova AI, NAVER Corp.
- Developed image-to-image translation pipeline for talking head project
Academic Activity
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Reviewer
- Conference: CVPR (2023-2024), ICCV (2023)
- Journal: TPAMI, TIP, TMM, TCVST, SPIC
- Workshops: NTIRE (@ CVPR 2022)
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Editor
- Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (Guest editor)
Miscellaneous
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Award
- N Innovation Award, 3rd prize in R&D track at NAVER, Jan. 2024 (AI Protection team)
- N Innovation Award, 2nd prize in R&D track at NAVER, Jan. 2023 (WebtoonMe project)
- Honorable Mention Award at NTIRE 2018 Challenge on NTIRE in CVPR workshop
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Press
- "미국·유럽·일본도 '감탄'...웹툰 AI 시대 열어야죠", Tech M, Feb. 2023
- "내 얼굴이 웹툰 캐릭터로 변했다", Digital Daily, Jan. 2023
- "日本のマンガを脅かす韓国発「ウェブトゥーン」 AI等の活用で急追", KOREA WORLD TIMES, Dec. 2022
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Teaching
- Lecture Instructor in Fastcampus (2017). Covered the basics of deep learning and its applications for non majors as well as provided mentoring of term projects