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I am an Associate Professor at the School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea since 2025. Prior to KAIST, I joined Dept. of Elec. Eng. (adjunct with Grad. school of AI and Dept. of Creative IT Eng.), POSTECH, Korea as an Assistant Professor in 2020 and was appointed as an Associate Professor since 2023. I was also jointly affiliated with OpenLab, POSCO-RIST, Pohang, Korea from 2021 to 2023 as Research Director.

I received the B.E. degree (Valedictorian of the class) in Computer Engineering from Kwang-Woon University, South Korea in '10, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, South Korea in '12 and '17, respectively.

I was with Facebook AI Research working with prof. Lorenzo Torresani. I was a postdoctoral associate in Computational Fabrication Group (PI: prof. Wojciech Matusik) at MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, US. I completed my M.S. and Ph.D. at Dept. EE, KAIST, Korea (co-advised by profs. In So Kweon and Jinwoo Shin, and former co-advisor Dr. Yu-Wing Tai). I finished my B.E. degree (the first-class honor) from Dept. Computer Engineering at Kwang-Woon University (KWU), Korea.

I was a research intern in Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China from 2014 to 2015, where I was working with Drs. Yasuyuki Matsushita and David Wipf. I visited Cognitive Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, US in 2016 as a research intern, and worked with Drs. Sing Bing Kang, Neel Joshi and Baoyuan Wang on computational photography.

I am a recipient of Best Poster Award at BMVC2024, Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, Gold prize of Samsung HumanTech thesis award, Qualcomm Innovation awards, Excellent research achievement award by Hyundai Motor Co., CVPR outstanding reviewer award 2020 and top research achievement awards from KAIST. I was also selected as an outstanding reviewer in CVPR'20 and ICLR'22.

I have served as area chairs for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, senior area chairs or senior program chairs for ICCV’25 and AAAI'22, and an associate editor for the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and Visual Computer journal (TVCJ), and ICRA'23-'24.

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