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Jee Seok Yoon

Jee Seok Yoon

PhD Student


Background


About

About

Generative models and model interpretability/modularization for medical and computer vision. Current Interests: Diffusion Model, Domain Generalization, Large Vision-language Models

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Research Intern, Hyundai Motor Group (Robotics Vision Team)

    Feb, 2023 - Sep, 20237 months

    Developed a counterfactual image generation technique for visualizing errors and augmenting data in long-tailed instance segmentation (see Final Presentation in Korean - Overleaf)

    • Developed a counterfactual image generation technique for visualizing errors and augmenting data in long-tailed instance segmentation

  • Research Intern, Kakao Enterprise (AI Laboratory)

    Mar, 2021 - Sep, 20216 months

    Developed a diffusion model conditioned on transformer temporal embeddings for longitudinal medical image synthesis. Example: Brain MRI inter-/extra-polation w.r.t. age (partial work for [16])

    • Developed a diffusion model conditioned on transformer temporal embeddings for longitudinal medical image synthesis.

  • Research Intern, Kakao Corp. (Computer Vision Team)

    Jun, 2018 - Aug, 20182 months

    Developed a plug-and-play image generator using off-the-shelf classifiers. Utilized mutual information estimation to factorize an entangled feature into factor of variations (produced [6])

    • Developed a plug-and-play image generator using off-the-shelf classifiers.

    • Utilized mutual information estimation to factorize an entangled feature into factor of variations

  • Co-founder, CTO, Backend Developer, Startup Company

    Mar, 2013 - May, 20141 year 2 months

    Developed the backend for a mobile dating service (Java+Netty) (currently out of business...!)

    • Developed the backend for a mobile dating service (Java+Netty)

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation Challenge 2016

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20161 day

    9th place

    • 9th place in Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation Challenge 2016 (Official Leaderboard, [21])

  • Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge 2016

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20161 day

    10th place

    • 10th place in Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Challenge 2016 ([27], [28], unofficial)

  • Lung Nodule Analysis 2016

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20161 day

    4th place

    • 4th place in Lung Nodule Analysis 2016 (Official Leaderboard, under the name MILAB, [15])

  • Carrot Insurance PhoneCare LCD Insurance

    - Present

    LCD CRACK Detection

    • Developed smartphone LCD crack detector (News)

  • SmartCareworks Inc. GoCDSS

    - Present

    FIBROSIS DIAGNOSIS

    • Fully automated liver, spleen segmentation and liver fibrosis diagnosis system (News, [14])

Skills

Skills

  • Programming Languages

    Python

    Tensorflow

    PyTorch

    Java (Rusty)

    C# (Rusty)

    C++ (Rusty)

  • HPC

    AWS

    GCP

    SLURM

    PBS

    GPU Clusters Management

  • Datasets

    Few-shot

    1D (signal)

    2D

    3D (2D+time, 2D+depth)

    4D (3D+time)

Education

Education

  • Brain and Cognitive Engineering (College of Informatics), Ph.D. candidate, Korea University

    Sep, 2018 - Aug, 2025

    4.18/4.5 (96.3 / 100)

    Coursework and Quals Completed

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering, Visiting Research Student, University of British Columbia

    Aug, 2022 - Aug, 2023

  • Computer Science and Engineering (College of Informatics), B.S., Korea University

    Mar, 2012 - Aug, 2018

Awards

Awards

  • Talent Award of Korea , Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea

    Awarded on: Dec 01, 2024

  • International Research Grant ($39,000) , Korea University

    Awarded on: Aug 12, 2022

  • Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea (Finalist) , Qualcomm Korea

    Awarded on: May 01, 2022

  • Naver Ph.D. Fellowship , Naver Corp.

    Awarded on: Dec 01, 2021

  • Research Scholarship , Korea University

    Awarded on: Oct 01, 2021

  • Junior Fellow Research Grant , Korea University

    Awarded on: Invalid date

  • Fundamental Scientist Scholarship ($22,000) , JW Foundation

    Awarded on: Jan 01, 2021

  • Student Travel Award , Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Conference (MICCAI)

    Awarded on: Sep 01, 2017

  • Best Paper Award , Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) Korea Computer Congress (KCC)

    Awarded on: Jun 01, 2017

  • Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award , Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) Winter Conference

    Awarded on: Dec 01, 2016

Publications

Publications

Interests

Interests

  • Generative Models

    Diffusion Model
  • Model Interpretability/Modularization

  • Domain Generalization

  • Large Vision-language Models

  • Medical Vision

  • Computer Vision