Region-Aware Text-to-Image Retrieval with Efficient Region-Informed Sequential Query Embedding
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(Incoming) Applied Scientist, Agentic AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS), New York
Ph.D., Seoul National University · M.IN.D Lab, advised by Taesup Moon
originalseok [at] gmail.com
I am a research scientist working towards developing practical AI algorithms in resource-constrained systems. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, advised by Taesup Moon, with the Outstanding Dissertation Award. In Fall 2026, I will join the Agentic AI team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in New York as an (Incoming) Applied Scientist. During my Ph.D., I worked as a research intern at Amazon AGI and Microsoft Research Asia, and as a visiting student researcher at Stanford University. My primary research focus lies in image denoising, multi-modal representation learning, and agentic AI.
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Work done during internship at Amazon AGI
AdaptFM: Resource-Adaptive Foundation Model Inference. *: Equal contribution
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Work done during internship at Microsoft Research Asia. *: Equal contribution
Oral presentation. *: Equal contribution
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Manager: Davide Modolo, Mentor: Gukyeong Kwon
Advisors: Tsachy Weissman, Joonhee Choi
Mentor: Jianlong Fu
Mentor: Sehoon Lee
Outstanding Dissertation AwardSeoul National University
CVPR Outstanding Reviewer
SBS Foundation Scholarship
Stars of Tomorrow, Excellence Award, MSRA Internship
Future Gauss LecturerGauss Labs
Big Contest Challenge League, Second Prize
Institute of Applied Statistics, SKKU, First Prize
Wooseok Jungho Scholarship
ICML 2023–2025, NeurIPS 2023–2025, ICLR 2024–2026, CVPR 2024–2026, ICCV 2025, ECCV 2026, AAAI 2024–2026, EMNLP 2023
TMLR 2024–2026
President, Statistical Analysis Study ClubSungkyunkwan University