Mingi Kwon

Ph.D. Student, ViLab (Visual Intelligence Lab), Department of Artificial Intelligence, College of Computing, Yonsei University  Research Advisor: Prof. Yongjung Uh

Co-founder of GivernyAI

Running VeritasiumKorean (180k subscribers)

Email: kwonmingi@yonsei.ac.kr (Personal, Research) mingikwon@giverny.ai (Bussiness) 

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About

As a Ph.D. student

I am currently a Ph.D. student at the Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University. My research interests are generative AI especially image/video generation and editing. I have developed diffusion-based image editing methods. Recently, my focus on research has been extending video generation and editing including talking head problems.

Previously, I completed my internship at Adobe Research (2023 May-Dec), advised by SeoungWug Oh, JoonYoung Lee, Yang Zhou, Difan Liu, Feng Liu, and other great team members. 

As a YouTuber

I am currently running a YouTube channel called Veritasium Korean, which focuses on math and science stories. Since 2021, I have been officially collaborating with the original Veritasium channel. Currently, the channel has nearly 200k subscribers. I have also appeared on the channel '안될공학' and I welcome inquiries for appearances anywhere.

As a Co-founder

I am currently a co-founder of GivernyAI, a startup that just launched in 2024. Based on my years of experience as a translation YouTuber, I established a startup that provides AI services for translating videos. Since 2022, I have been researching and working on this as a side project with Jaeseok Jeong, who has greatly supported me. At the end of 2023, for the first time in my life, I met in-person with Professor Yong-jae Lee, a distant relative and a leading figure in the field of Generative AI that I study. Together, the three of us have established the company in the United States in 2024.

Papers

❤️ : First author or co-first author   🧡 : My favorite co-working papers!

Research Experience

Awards