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

[C4] Hwiyoon Choi, Youngsik Yun, and Jihie Kim. "From Zero-shot Human-in-the-loop: A Human Feedback Framework for Reducing Cultural Bias in CLIP-based Generative AI". The 26th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2025. (ISIS 2025)

[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

[C2] Sooyeon Park, Youngsik Yun, and Jihie Kim. "A Diagnostic Evaluation Methodology for Exploring Cognitive Errors of VLM in the Korean Cultural Context". The Annual Symposium of KIPS 2026 (ASK 2026). 2026

[C1] Minki Hong, Youngsik Yun, Sohyeon Park, and 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 Review: AAAI-2026, IUI-2026

• 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