Junwan Kim
AI Researcher
I am a Master’s student in Computer Science at New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Prior to NYU, I earned my B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University. My research interests lie in artificial intelligence, with a focus on generative models and multi-modal learning.
junwan [dot] kim [at] nyu [dot] edu
Computer Vision, Multi-modal Learning
Master's Student @ New York Univiersity
251 Mercer St, New York, NY 10012, US
URECA💡: Unique Region Caption Anything
Sangbeom Lim*, Junwan Kim*, Heeji Yoon, Jaewoo Jung, Seungryong Kim
arXiv preprint
V.I.P.: Iterative Online Preference Distillation for Efficient Video Diffusion Models
Jisoo Kim, Wooseok Seo, Junwan Kim, Seungho Park, Sooyeon Park, Youngjae Yu
International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025
DisCoRD: Discrete Tokens to Continuous Motion via Rectified Flow Decoding
Jungbin Cho*, Junwan Kim*, Jisoo Kim, Minseo Kim, Mingu Kang, Sungeun Hong, Tae-Hyun Oh, Youngjae Yu
International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025, Highlight
TWLV-I: Analysis and Insights from Holistic Evaluation on Video Foundation Models
TwelveLabs Team
Technical Report
Pegasus-v1 Technical Report
TwelveLabs Team
Technical Report
AVIN-Chat: An Audio-Visual Interactive Chatbot System with Emotional State Tuning
Chanhyuk Park*, Jungbin Cho*, Junwan Kim*, Seongmin Lee, Jungsu Kim, Sanghoon Lee
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Demo Track 2024
Design and Implementation of User-Interactive Crowd Accident Avoiding System
Junwan Kim*, Youngbae Kong*, Byeongho Kim*, Minjae Park*, Jeongeun Nah
Annual Conference of Korea Information Processing Society (ACK) 2023
* denotes equal contribution
TwelveLabs
March 2024 - August 2024
Seoul, South Korea / San Francisco, USA
TwelveLabs, a startup specializing in foundation models for video understanding, where I worked as a research intern in the video-language research team. (Advisor: Prof. Minjoon Seo)
Linq Alpha
September 2023 - January 2024
Boston, USA (Remote)
Linq Alpha, a startup specializing in generative models for finance, where I participated in an industry-academic collaboration project. (Advisor: Prof. Jy-Yong Sohn)
Rebuilder AI
July 2023 - August 2023
Seoul, South Korea
Rebuilder AI is a startup specializing in developing AI models for 3D assets, where I participated in an industry-academic collaboration project.
Yonsei University
March 2019 - August 2025
Seoul, South Korea
B.S. in Elctrical and Electronic Engineering
New York University
September 2025 - Present
New York, United States
M.S. in Computer Science
MIRLAB
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Undergraduate Researcher (Supervisor: Prof. Yonugjae Yu)
CVLAB
Sep 2024 - Present
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), Seoul, South Korea
Undergraduate Researcher (Supervisor: Prof. Seungryong Kim)