Research Topic

Machine Learning, Multi-Modal Learning, and Fairness in AI

Education

Ph.D. [Mar.2024 ~ Present] (Advisor: Jihie Kim)

Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Donnguk University, Seoul, South Korea

M.S. [Mar.2022 ~ Feb.2024] (Advisor: Jihie Kim)

Department of Artificial Intelligence (GPA: 4.5/4.5)

Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea

B.S. [Mar.2019 ~ Feb.2022]

Department of Computer Science (GPA: 4.22/4.5, Early graduation)

Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea

Publications

International Conferences

[C3] Suchae Jeong, Inseong Choi, Youngsik Yun, and Jihie Kim. "Culture-TRIP: Culturally-Aware Text-to-Image Generation with Iterative Prompt Refinement". The 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL. 2025. (NAACL 2025)

[C2] Youngsik Yun, and Jihie Kim. "CIC: A Framework for Culturally-Aware Image Captioning". Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2024. (IJCAI 2024)

[C1] Zhixuan Liu, Peter Schaldenbrand, Beverly-Claire Okogwu, Wenxuan Peng, Youngsik Yun, Andrew Hunt, Jihie Kim, and Jean Oh. "SCoFT: Self-Contrastive Fine-Tuning for Equitable Image Generation". Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision. 2024. (CVPR 2024)

International Workshop

[W1] Youen Shin, Zhixuan Liu, Beverley-Claire Okogwu, Youngsik Yun, Peter Schaldenbrand, Jihie Kim, and Jean Oh. "Towards equitable representation in text-to-image synthesis models with the cross-cultural understanding benchmark (ccub) dataset". AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023 Workshop on Creative AI Across Modalities.

Doctoral Consortium

[DC1] Youngsik Yun. "Culturally-aware Image Captioning". Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2024. Doctoral Consortium.

Domestic Conference

[C1] Minki Hong, Youngsik Yun, Sohyeon Park, Jihie Kim. "Generating Korean Image Captions using OCR in CoT Prompting". Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology. 2024.

Work Experiences

• Feb. 2022 ~ Present: Research Assistant, ITRC Knowledge Science Research Center, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea (Advisor: Jihie Kim)

• Sep.2022 ~ Mar. 2023: Student Researcher, Bot Intelligence Group (BIG) lab, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA (Advisor: Jean Oh) 

Project Experiences

• Jan. 2022 ~ Present: High-Performance Knowledge System and Human Resource Development, Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea

• Jul. 2024 ~ Dec. 2024: A Fundamental Study for the Development of the Enterprise Korean version ssLLM Model and Multimodal Application, Dongguk University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, South Korea

• Jun. 2024 ~ Nov. 2024: Optimization of Personalized AI Generative Models with Multimodal Data and Demographic Diversity, Ministry of Education, South Korea

• Jun. 2022 ~ Apr. 2023:  User-Centered Visual and Language Reasoning, Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea

Academic Experiences

• Program committee, AAAI-26

• Innovation Academy Field Meeting @ IITP, Aug 2025

• Presentation of the International Congress, International Trade and Economic Development, Jun 2025

Patents

[P8] Method and Computing Device for Text-to-Image Generation Using Cultural Context-Based Iterative Prompt Refinement, and Recording Medium Thereof, Sep, 2025

• Jihie Kim, Youngsik Yun

[P7] Korean Captioning with CoT Prompt, Aug 2025 [Software Program]

•  Jihie Kim, Suchae Jung, Inseong Choi, Youngsik Yun

[P6] Cultural Prompt Refinement, Aug 2025 [Software Program]

•  Jihie Kim, Suchae Jung, Inseong Choi, Youngsik Yun

[P5] OCR Information Extraction with Korean Captioning, Aug 2025 [Software Program]

•  Jihie Kim, Minki Hong, Youngsik Yun, Sohyeon Park

[P4] Cultural Prompt Feedback, Aug 2025 [Software Program]

•  Jihie Kim, Suchae Jung, Inseong Choi, Youngsik Yun

[P3] Culturally aware image captioning method and controller, Dec 2024 [PCT]

•  Jihie Kim, Youngsik Yun

[P2] A framework for culturally-aware image captioning, Apr 2024 [Software Program]

•  Jihie Kim, Youngsik Yun

[P1] Culturally aware image captioning method and framework for culturally aware image description, Jul 2024

• Jihie Kim, Youngsik Yun