- 2025.12: My undergraduate intern at UMN, Nathan Stangler, presented our work SolarCLIP (a CLIP model for the Sun) at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
- 2025.12: My undergraduate intern at UMN, Shilong Xiang, received a 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 undergraduate 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 was fortunate to receive the CSE Data Science Initiative (DSI) Fellowship. We will be taking Spatial AI to the Sun!
About
I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at University of Minnesota (UMN), advised by Yao-Yi Chiang and Dalton Lunga.
I have broad interests in foundation models and self-supervised learning for real-world applications (e.g., remote sensing, on-device AI).
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 have also interned at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and KAIST.
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🎉 News
- 2026.10: One paper was accepted to WACV 2027. Congrats!
- 2026.09: Two papers were accepted to NeurIPS 2026. Congrats!
- 2026.09: Our team advanced to the top 3 at the OASIS 2026 Challenge and received a Google DeepMind Travel Grant. Congrats!
- 2026.09: I will be joining Samsung Research America (SRA) as an AI Scholar this fall. See you in Mountain View :)
- 2026.08: Two papers were accepted to SIGSPATIAL 2026. Congrats!
- 2026.05: My undergraduate intern at UMN, Yiling Sun, received a UROP Award. Congrats!
- 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: Our team placed among the top 10 in 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
- AI/ML: ICLR (‘27), NeurIPS (‘26), ICML (‘26: 🥈 Silver Recognition), TMLR (‘26), AAAI (‘26, ‘27)
- Vision: CVPR (‘26), ICRA (‘26), WACV (‘26)
- GeoAI: SIGSPATIAL (‘25, ‘26), IGARSS (‘26), TSAS (‘25)
- HCI: CHI (‘26), UIST (‘25), VRST (‘26)
🎋 Miscellanea
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– Patrick Winston