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Experience

  • 2024.9 -
    Assistant Professor
    Inha University
    • Department of Information and Communication Engineering
    • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Graduate School)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 2018 - 2018
    Intern
    Clova AI, NAVER
    • Developed image-to-image translation pipeline for talking head project

Education

  • 2021.8
    Ph.D. in Artifical Intelligence
    Ajou University, Korea
  • 2016.2
    Bachelor of Media in Digital Media
    Ajou University, Korea

Professional Service

  • Reviewer
    • Conference: CVPR (2023-), ICCV (2023), ECCV (2024), NeurIPS (2024)
    • Journal: TPAMI, TIP, TMM, TCVST, SPIC, ESWA, Neurocomputing
    • Workshops: NTIRE (@ CVPR 2022)
  • Editor
    • Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (2022-2023; Guest)

Teaching

  • 2024-2
    Computer Graphics, Creative Design for Engineering
  • 2017
    Deep Learning and its Applications (at FastCampus)

Invited Talk

  • 2024.5
    Ajou University, "Career path advise for undergraduate students"
  • 2023.3
    Ajou University, "Recent advances in visual generative models"