Assistant Professor | Chung-Ang University
Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film
I am an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film at Chung-Ang University. I earned my Ph.D. at KAIST under the supervision of Prof. Joon Son Chung. My research focuses on multimodal conversational AI with particular emphasis on audio-visual generative models.
✉️ jihk [at] cau.ac.kr
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📍 Rm 709, Bldg 305
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Work Experience
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
Assistant Professor
Mar 2026 - Present
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Visiting Scholar
Host: Shinji Watanabe
May 2025 - Nov 2025
Hyundai Motor Group/42dot, Seoul, South Korea
Full-time Research Engineer
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
Education
KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Joon Son Chung
Mar 2023 - Feb 2026
Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Seong-Whan Lee
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
B.S. in Mathematics
Mar 2013 - Aug 2019
Academic Services
Program Committee & Reviewer
Journals
• Speech Communication
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Conferences (Speech)
• ASRU/SLT: 2025 -
• Interspeech: 2025 -
• ICASSP: 2026
Conferences (CV)
• CVPR: 2025 -
• WACV: 2026
• BMVC: 2026
Conferences (ML)
• ICML: 2026
• AAAI: 2026
• NeurIPS: 2026
Invited Talk
(Apr. 2026) "Toward Human-like Conversation: Giving Voice and Face to AI," Department of Mathematics, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
(Sep. 2025) "Visual Speech Generation," Speech (Sphinx) Lunch, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Korea
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