Yooseung Wang

Yooseung Wang (왕유승)

I am a researcher at Mobility Platform Research Center, Korea Electronics Techonlogy Institute (KETI).

Previously, I worked as a research officer (8 EE students selected nationwide) at Defense Artifical Intelligence Center, Agency for Defense Development (ADD). I received my M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where I was advised by Prof. Changick Kim, and my B. S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).

I am a recipient of 2024 1st Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate School (9 EE students selected nationwide), 2023 Kwanjeong Scholarship (the sole recipient from KAIST EE/CS), Kwon Yeong-Se Scholarship (Top Academic Entrance Scholarship in KAIST EE (1st/2nd Place)), and graduated as the Valedictorian of the UNIST ECE, Class of 2019.

My research interests include vision-based on-device AI, autonomous driving, and multimodal learning.

Email: yswang@keti.re.kr; yswang@kaist.ac.kr

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Education

2022.08 - 2024.08 M.S., School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

- Computation Intelligence Lab, Advisor : Changick Kim, GPA: 4.25/4.3

- Thesis : Subdivided Mask Dispersion Network in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

2015.03 - 2019.02 B.S. Dep. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea
- Valedictorian in ECE (Ranked 1/131), Summa Cum Laude

-2018-2019, Undergraduate Research Intern, CSAIL, Advisor: Jaesik Choi (Was at UNIST, moved to KAIST AI Graduate School)

-2018, Uzbekistan, TUIT(타슈켄트정보통신대학교), ALgorithm Lecturer (English), fully funded by Worlds Friends IT

-2017, Hong Kong, HKUST(홍콩과학기술대학교), Exchange Student, fully funded by government scholarship

-2016, Singapore, NTU(난양공과대학교), Singapore, Participated Global Startup Acceleration Program, fully funded by NIA (winning the Startup Competition)

Research Experience

(2024.09.01~) Korea Electronics Techology Institute (KETI), Mobility Platform Research Center, Researcher

(2019.06-2022.05) Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Defence AI Center (DAIC), Research Officer (Mandatory military Service)

Projects: Autonomous driving car perception [J1, J2, J4, D1, D2, PT1, PT2] (News) / occluded object detection / face recognition

(2018.06-2018.08) Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI),Visual Intelligence Lab, Undergraduate Researcher

Action recognition, object tracking, semantic segmentation

(2018.12 - 2019.02, 2022.06 - 2022.08) Satrec Initiative Analytics (SIA), Image Processing Team, Research Intern

3rd Place, 2022 CVPRW SpaceNet 8 Challenge (link, See sianalytics)
Beat the winner @ 2018 CVPRW DeepGlobe Challenge [GRSL'21]

Awards & Honors
2024, 1st Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate School

2023, Kwanjeong Scholarship (Sole Recipient from KAIST EE/CS/AI)

2022, Kwon Yeong-Se Scholarship (Recipient of Top Academic Entrance Scholarship (1st/2nd Place) in KAIST EE)
2022, 3rd Place, SpaceNet 8 Challenge on CVPRW

2021, 1st Place, AI Idea Competition for Brain Hemorrhage Diagnosis Track

2018, Top 1%, NAVER CEO Award, Han-ium ICT Competition

2018-2019, National Science & Technology Scholarship

2017, UNIST Overseas Studies Scholarship, (5,000 USD)

2016, (Top 2%) 13th place, ACM ICPC Daejeon Regional

2015 4th Place, Global Startup Competition

2015 (Top 2%) 57th out of 2300, LG Code Challenger
2015-2019 UNIST Academic Performance Scholarship (Full Scholarship)

2015 Honorable mention, Korea Super-computing Challenge

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