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📌 I'm currently on the 2025 job market, looking for a tenure-track faculty position in several countries. If you'd like to connect, please feel free to reach out!

I'm a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the MURGe-Lab (UNC-NLP Group) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, working with Prof. Mohit Bansal. Prior to joining UNC, I received my Ph.D. degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2023, advised by Prof. Sung Ju Hwang, and won the best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the KAIST College of Engineering and School of Computing. During my Ph.D. study, I interned at Microsoft Research, mentored by Dr. Yue Cao, and worked as a short-term visiting student at the Weizmann Institute of Science, hosted by Prof. Yonina Eldar. I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).

For my long-term research goal, I've been dedicated to developing lifelong adaptability in embodied AI systems and multimodal foundation models (e.g., VLM, MLLM, diffusion models) within dynamic real-world environments. These systems aim to be reliable, improvable, interactive, and compositional, addressing practical, real-world challenges to better understand human behavior and significantly impact our daily lives.

My recent research interest includes the following topics:

  • Self-Verification and Self-Evolving Models for Learning Various Skills
  • MLLM/LLM-guided Multimodal Video Reasoning, Generation, and Editing
  • Towards Realistic Continual Learning on Various Modalities
  • Efficient Training and Inference for Large Models

  • News

    02. 2023     Won the best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the KAIST College of Engineering and School of Computing!
    Old News (~2022)


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