- 2025.12: My undergrad intern at UMN, Nathan Stangler, presented our work SolarCLIP (a CLIP model for the Sun) at URS.
- 2025.12: My undergrad intern at UMN, Shilong Xiang, received the UROP Award. Congrats!
- 2025.09: I will continue my internship with the GeoAI group at ORNL this Fall.
- 2025.08: Our paper, Transit for All: Mapping Equitable Bike2Subway Connection using Region Representation Learning, was accepted to SIGSPATIAL 2025!
- 2025.05: I will be interning with the GeoAI group at ORNL this Summer.
- 2025.02: My undergrad intern at UMN, Shilong Xiang, received the MURAJ In-Action Grant Award. Congrats!
- 2025.01: Our paper, DiminishAR: Diminishing Visual Distractions via Holographic AR Displays, was accepted to CHI 2025! See you in Yokohama 🌸
- 2025.01: I am fortunate to receive the CSE Data Science Initiative (DSI) Fellowship. We will be taking Spatial AI to the Sun!
About
I am a PhD student in Computer Science at University of Minnesota (UMN), advised by Yao-Yi Chiang and Dalton Lunga.
My research focuses on the transferability of learned representations, particularly in self-supervised learning (SSL). I am interested in understanding how SSL models learn representations that generalize across diverse downstream tasks, and how such representations can be learned efficiently.
Prior to this, I received my MS and BS in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University (SFU), and a BS in Materials Science & Engineering from Korea University. I also did an internship at KAIST, which ignited my journey in AI.
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🎉 News
- 2026.05: I will continue my internship with the GeoAI group at ORNL this Summer.
- 2026.02: Our work on information-theoretic multimodal learning was accepted to CVPR 2026! See you in Denver 🌇
- 2026.01: Our work on transferable self-supervised learning was accepted to ICLR 2026! See you in Rio 🇧🇷
- 2026.01: I will continue my internship with the GeoAI group at ORNL this Spring.
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- 2024.10: I made it into the top 10 teams of the HuMob competition! See you in Atlanta.
- 2024.03: I won the SFU CS Diversity Award!
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- 2023.06: I won the SFU CS Innovation Prize!
✒️ Publications (selected)
🤝 Service
Reviewer
- ML: NeurIPS (‘26), ICML (‘26: 🥈 Silver Recognition), AAAI (‘26)
- Vision: CVPR (‘26), ICRA (‘26), WACV (‘26), TCSVT (‘25)
- GeoAI: SIGSPATIAL (‘25, ‘26), IGARSS (‘26), TSAS (‘25), GRSL (‘26)
- HCI: CHI (‘26), UIST (‘25), IJHCI (‘26)
🎋 Miscellanea
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