I am a Senior Researcher at Samsung Research America (SRA), focusing on robotic manipulation, navigation, streaming video understanding, agentic memory design, and multimodal understanding for edge devices - robots, laptops, and phones. Before joining SRA, I was a postdoctoral researcher at POSTECH, where I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering under Professor Minsu Cho. During my research journey, I collaborated with Google Research on multimodal video understanding with Cordelia Schmid, and with Microsoft Research Asia on biologically-inspired machine vision with Chong Luo.
Work experience
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Senior Researcher, Samsung Research America Research focus: vision-language models for edge devices. Working with Suren Kumar. -
Postdoctoral Researcher, POSTECH Research focus: foundation models for robotics. Worked with Professor Minsu Cho. -
Student Researcher, Google Research Research focus: modular reasoning for video question answering. Published MoReVQA at CVPR 2024. -
Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia Research focus: biologically inspired image representation learning. Published PerViT at NeurIPS 2022. -
Interim Associate Software Engineer, Electronic Arts Korea Developed and maintained FIFA Online 3 client/front-end UI modules.
Publications
- arXiv 2026 GoldiCLIP: The Goldilocks Approach for Balancing Explicit Supervision for Language-Image Pretraining Project Page arXiv Bibtex
- arXiv 2026 Foveated Reasoning: Stateful, Action-based Visual Focusing for Vision-Language Models Project Page arXiv Bibtex
- ICCV 2025 highlight Combinative Matching for Geometric Shape Assembly Project Page arXiv Bibtex
- ICML 2024 3D Geometric Shape Assembly via Efficient Point Cloud Matching Project Page arXiv Poster Open Review Bibtex Code
- CVPR 2024 MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering Project Page arXiv Poster Video Open Access Bibtex
- WACV 2024 oral, best paper finalist Efficient Semantic Matching with Hypercolumn Correlation Project Page arXiv Bibtex Code
- TPAMI 2023 Convolutional Hough Matching Networks for Robust and Efficient Visual Correspondence Project Page arXiv IEEE Xplore Bibtex Code
- NeurIPS 2022 Peripheral Vision Transformer Project Page arXiv Poster OpenReview Bibtex Code
- CVPR 2022 TransforMatcher: Match-to-Match Attention for Semantic Correspondence Project Page arXiv Open Access Bibtex Code
- ICCV 2021 Relational Embedding for Few-Shot Classification Project Page arXiv Video Open Access Bibtex Code
- ICCV 2021 Hypercorrelation Squeeze for Few-Shot Segmentation Project Page arXiv Poster Open Access Bibtex Code
- CVPR 2021 oral Convolutional Hough Matching Networks Project Page arXiv Poster Video Open Access Bibtex Code
- WACV 2021 Learning to Distill Convolutional Features into Compact Local Descriptors Open Access Bibtex
- ECCV 2020 Learning to Compose Hypercolumns for Visual Correspondence Project Page arXiv Video ECVA Bibtex Code
- arXiv preprint 2019 SPair-71k: A Large-scale Benchmark for Semantic Correspondence Project Page arXiv Bibtex Download Dataset
- ICCV 2019 Hyperpixel Flow: Semantic Correspondence with Multi-layer Neural Features Project Page arXiv Poster Open Access Bibtex Code
Education
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POSTECH, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Professor Minsu Cho
Sep 2018 – Feb 2024 -
The Pennsylvania State University, B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Sep 2011 – Dec 2014
Honors and Awards
- IPIU Best Paper Award (2024), 3D Geometric Shape Assembly via Efficient Point Cloud Matching
- CSE Outstanding Research Award (2024), in CSE at POSTECH
- Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award (2024), in CSE, GSAI, EE, CITE at POSTECH
- BK21 Outstanding Paper Awards (2023)
- Google PhD Fellowship (2022), Machine Perception, Speech Technology, and Computer Vision
- Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR (2022), awarded to top 5% reviewers
- POSTECHIAN Fellowship Award (2022)
- BK21 Outstanding Paper Awards (2022)
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea (2021), Convolutional Hough Matching Networks
- Outstanding Reviewer at ICCV (2021), awarded to top 5% reviewers
- The 1st POSTECH Research Performance Contest (2021), fourth prize
- NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship Award (2020)
- Best Term Project Presentation Award (2019), in-class achievements
Professional services
- Webmaster, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019
- Regular reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, TPAMI, IJCV, WACV, MVA
Military obligation
- Rifleman, 59 ASP & 102 Replacement Battalion, Chuncheon, Korea · Jun 2015 – Mar 2017
Language skills
- Korean (native)
- English (fluent)
