Portrait of Yewon Hwang

Yewon Hwang

AI Researcher

Research experience

SEP 2024 — PRESENT

Postdoctoral Researcher

Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

  • Vision-based system that reconstructs game states from broadcast video through multi-object tracking, player identification, and geometric mapping for dynamic scene understanding
  • Multimodal healthcare AI with IMU sensors and pose keypoints
Computer visionMulti-object trackingHomography estimationRe-IDVLM

FEB 2021 — AUG 2024

Doctoral Researcher

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

  • Multimodal representation learning across text, audio, and video for emotion and sentiment understanding, with robust cross-modal alignment under noisy modalities and missing labels
  • LLM-based task planning
Cross-modal alignmentSensor fusionDomain generalizationMultimodal learningAffective computingLLM

FEB 2019 — FEB 2021

Master’s Researcher

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

  • Contactless text input from finger movements and mobile input systems
  • Vision-based industrial defect classification
HCIDefect detection