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Experience
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2024.9 - Assistant Professor
Inha University - Department of Information and Communication Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Graduate School)
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2021 - 2024 AI Researcher
Webtoon AI, NAVER WEBTOON - Built user-centric AI tools designed for cartoon creators/artists (e.g. Cartooner, DreamStyler)
- Researched user privacy-aware Gen AI (e.g. Impasto, which prevents copyright violation by Gen AI models)
- Developed portrait stylization production (e.g. WebtoonMe)
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2019 - 2020 Visiting Researcher
Clova AI Research, NAVER - Researched data augmentation for image super-resolution (e.g. CutBlur)
- Developed label-efficient conditional generative models
- Co-worked with Jaejun Yoo, Youngjung Uh and Yunjey Choi
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2018 - 2018 Intern
Clova AI, NAVER - Developed image-to-image translation pipeline for talking head project
Education
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2021.8 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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2016.2 Bachelor of Media in Digital Media
Ajou University, Korea
Professional Service
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Reviewer
- Conference: CVPR (2023-), ICCV (2023), ECCV (2024), NeurIPS (2024)
- Journal: TPAMI, TIP, TMM, TCVST, SPIC, ESWA, Neurocomputing
- Workshops: NTIRE (@ CVPR 2022)
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Editor
- Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (2022-2023; Guest)
Teaching
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2024-2 Computer Graphics, Creative Design for Engineering -
2017 Deep Learning and its Applications (at FastCampus)
Invited Talk
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2024.5 Ajou University, "Career path advise for undergraduate students" -
2023.3 Ajou University, "Recent advances in visual generative models"