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I am a researcher in computer vision, with a focus on image and video generation, editing, and customization.
I'm a Ph.D. student at Seoul National University, advised by Jaesik Park, who also supervised my M.S. (Best Thesis Award). I earned my B.S. at GIST and worked with Jonghyun Choi and Jeany Son as an undergraduate.
I'm currently a research scientist intern at Adobe Research with Duygu Ceylan and Tuanfeng Y. Wang. Previously, I interned at Sony Research with Takashi Shibuya and Masato Ishii, and at Microsoft Research Asia with Chong Luo and Qi Dai.
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Currently researching diffusion models for image and video generation at Adobe Research.
Worked on efficient methods for image and video editing, with an emphasis on practical generative editing pipelines.
Investigated video generative models, subject-driven customization, and practical systems for open-domain customized video generation. This work led to an ICASSP 2026 paper and two ECCV 2026 papers: Learning Zero-Shot Subject-Driven Video Generation Using 1% Compute and RCEdit-500K: Reference Completion for Image-Conditioned Image Editing.
Built an early research foundation in computer vision, visual recognition, video understanding, and generative modeling. Published multiple domestic conference and journal papers through KSC, KIMST, and the Journal of KIISE, along with international conference papers including ICCV 2025 and ICCV 2023.
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Master's thesis: Advancing Image Editing through Layer-wise Memory in Diffusion. The thesis studied controllable image editing in diffusion models through layer-wise memory mechanisms and was recognized with the Best Master's Thesis Award. Thesis link will be added later.
Coursework included EECS 127 (Optimization Models in Engineering) and CS 70 (Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory).
Graduated 2nd in rank in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and received Magna Cum Laude honors. Coursework and undergraduate research focused on machine learning, computer vision, and systems foundations.
* indicates equal contribution. † indicates corresponding authors.
TL;DRGenerates videos of a user-specified subject with no per-subject tuning by separating identity injection (from subject images) and motion learning (from unrelated videos), matching prior zero-shot methods at roughly 1% of the compute.
TL;DRA large open dataset for reference-image-guided editing, built via "reference completion" — automatically synthesizing the missing reference for existing text-edit triplets to yield ~477K input–reference–instruction–target quadruplets across six edit categories.
TL;DRReconstructs dynamic 3D humans and their surrounding scene over time from only a few low-overlap cameras, using camera-controlled video diffusion to synthesize dense novel views and reconstructing background and people separately with cross-view tracking.
TL;DRTackles open-domain customized video generation — synthesizing videos of user-specified subjects across arbitrary domains — with an end-to-end ecosystem spanning data, model, and evaluation.

TL;DRIntroduces online event-boundary detection for streaming video (unlike prior methods that need the whole clip), with an Event-Segmentation-Theory–inspired model (ESTimator) that flags boundaries where its frame predictions diverge from what actually happens.
TL;DREditing methods built for U-Net diffusion fail on multimodal diffusion transformers (MM-DiT); this work analyzes MM-DiT's text–image attention to build an editing method handling global-to-local edits across MM-DiT variants, including few-step models.
TL;DRSupports long, multi-step image edits by storing past edits in a layer-wise memory, with background-consistency guidance and multi-query disentanglement so objects can be added or removed with rough masks while keeping earlier edits intact.
TL;DRReplaces costly 1×1 channel-squeeze layers in ConvNets by splitting channels into subsets and dynamically picking per pixel based on the input — about 25% faster at comparable accuracy, and reusable as a downscaler and dynamic pruner.
TL;DRGenerates coherent image sequences from multi-sentence stories using a context-memory module that propagates information across frames and an online text-augmentation scheme that creates pseudo-descriptions during training, improving long-term consistency.
Feel free to reach out for research discussions, collaboration ideas, or anything related to visual generation and multimodal learning.
You can also reach out to my advisor Jaesik Park for any collaboration.
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