Seunghoon Jeong
(정승훈, 鄭勝薰)
(정승훈, 鄭勝薰)
Curriculum Vitae (Last updated: 8 August, 2026)
4th year graduate student (Integrated Master and Ph.D course)
POSTECH, Department of Mathematics
Advisor: Beomjun Choi (currently at KAIST)
Contact: jshmth@postech.ac.kr (Primary) | jshmth001@gmail.com
My interests lie in Optimal Transport, PDEs and Gradient Flows.
More specifically, my recent research program focuses on analyzing the behavior of partial differential equations that can be formulated as (modified) Wasserstein gradient flows, using geometric methods on the Wasserstein space.
Preprints
Talks
KAIST Math Graduate Student Seminar, Łojasiewicz theory on the Wasserstein space (Oct 2026)
The 6th Geometry Day, Thom's gradient conjecture and its applications (Oct 2026)
KAIST Geometric Analysis Group Seminar, Łojasiewicz-Simon inequalities: Old and new (Sep 2026)
(CT) 19th EASIAM Annual Meeting, Transformer attention dynamics through the lens of nonconvex Wasserstein gradient flows (Aug 2026)
(Poster)19th EASIAM Annual Meeting, Asymptotic convergence of nonconvex Wasserstein gradient flows (Aug 2026)
2026 Workshop for Young Mathematicians in Korea, Optimal Transport Everywhere: From Wasserstein to Analysis, Geometry, PDEs, and AI (Aug 2026)
(Poster) ICERM topical workshop: Partial Differential Equations for Many Particles Systems, Asymptotic convergence of nonconvex Wasserstein gradient flows (Aug 2026)
(Poster) The 15th AIMS Conference, Wasserstein--\L ojasiewicz inequalities and asymptotics of McKean-Vlasov equation (Jul 2026)
(Poster) International Conference for the 80th Anniversary of the Korean Mathematical Society, Wasserstein--\L ojasiewicz inequalities and asymptotics of McKean-Vlasov equation (Jun 2026)
KAIST Geometric Analysis Group Seminar, Geometry of unbalanced optimal transport (Apr 2026)
The 5th Geometry Day, Asymptotic convergence of nonconvex Wasserstein gradient flows (Apr 2026)
2026 Jinju Workshop on Geometric Analysis, Riemannian structure on the L^2-Wasserstein space (Feb 2026)
KAIST Geometric Analysis Group Seminar, Asymptotics of McKean-Vlasov equation (Dec 2025)
(Poster) 2025 KSIAM annual meeting, Asymptotic convergence of nonconvex Wasserstein gradient flows (Nov 2025)
(Poster) ReaDiNet 2025: International Conference on Recent Topics in Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Their Applications, Asymptotic convergence of nonconvex Wasserstein gradient flows (Oct 2025)
2nd KIAS Graduate Student Meeting in Pure Mathematics, Asymptotoic convergence of nonconvex Wasserstein gradient flows (May 2025)
MATH622-01 Complex Manifold Class Final Project, Yau's proof on Calabi conjecture (Dec 2024)
Awards
Graduate Research Fellowship
POSTECH Department of Mathematics | Sep. 2026
Best Poster Grand Award
Korean Mathematical Society | Jun. 2026
Postechian Scholarship (Pioneering Category)
POSTECH BK21 Mathematical Science Division | Mar. 2026
Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistantship
POSTECH Mathematical Education | Mar. 2026, Mar. 2025
Outstanding Poster Award
Korea Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | Nov. 2025
Award for Academic Services
POSTECH Department of Mathematics | Sep. 2025
Conferences (organized)