Education

• Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 

M.S. student in the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (Feb. 2023 - Present)

• INHA University (INHA)

B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Interdisciplinary Major in Software Convergence Engineering

Visiting Scholar

• Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Visiting Scholar in Computer Science (Korean Government Fellowship, USD 41K)

Publications

• One More Glance with Sharp Eyes: Rethinking Lightweight Captioning as a Practical Visual Specialist

  • Junha Song, Yongsik Jo, So Yeon Min, Quanting Xie, Taehwan Kim, Yonatan Bisk, and Jaegul Choo, arXiv (2025) [PDF], [Project Page] [Code] 

• Towards Human-like Multimodal Conversational Agent by Generating Engaging Speech

  • Taesoo Kim, Yongsik Jo, Hyunmin Song, and Taehwan Kim, Interspeech (2025) (Oral Presentation) [PDF]

• Deeper, Sharper, Faster: Application of Efficient Transformer to Galaxy Image Restoration

  • Hyosun Park, Yongsik Jo, Seokun Kang, Taehwan Kim, and M. James Jee, Astrophysical Journal 972:45 (2024) [PDF], [Code] 

Project Experiences 

• Galaxy Image Restoration Project (Collaborative Project with Yonsei University) (Feb. 2023 - Present)

  • Restoring galaxy images via Deep Learning

• Hyundai Elevator Project (Mar. 2021 - Dec. 2021)

  • Operation and management service technology to increase the available elevator service time.

• Industry-Academic Joint Education Model Project (Sep. 2021 - Nov. 2021)

  • AI-based system for reducing defect rates in the foaming process [PDF]

• LG Electronics Project (Apr. 2021 - Aug. 2021)

  • Data-based injection and mold quality analysis 

Awards and Honors  

• AI Intensive Program at Carnegie Mellon University (IITP & Sogang University, USD 41K) (Aug. 2024 - Feb. 2025) 

• Excellence Prize, Campus Patent Universiade, Korea (Prize: KRW 3,000K) (Nov. 2021) 

• Grand Prize, Spring Student Case Presentation, Korea Society for Quality Management, Korea (May 2021) 

• Distinguished Paper Prize, Korea of Quality Management, Korea (Oct. 2021)

• Scholarship for University Innovation Project from INHA University (Fall, 2021)

• Scholarship for University Innovation Project from INHA University (Spring, 2021)

• Military Service, Republic of Korea Army (Jan. 2018 – Sep. 2019)

Presentation 

• “Towards Human-like Multimodal Conversational Agent by Generating Engaging Speech", Korean Institute of Broadcast and Media Engineers (Spring 2025) 

• “Development of Elevator Repair Time Prediction System Using Fault Data”, Korean Society for Engineering Education (Autumn 2021)

• “Development of Elevator Fault Diagnosis System Using Vibration Data”, Korean Safety Management & Science (Autumn 2021) (Oral Presentation) 

• “Fault and Vibration Data Analysis for Elevator Fault Diagnosis”, Korean Safety Management & Science (Autumn 2021) [PDF]

• “An Exploratory Data Analysis for Elevator Failure Prediction”, Korean Safety Management & Science (Spring 2021) [PDF]