Whie Jung

whieya [at] kaist.ac.kr

I am a phD student in the school of computing in KAIST, advised by Prof. Seunghoon Hong. My research focus is on Machine Learning, especially on object-centric learning, disentangled representation learning, and compositional representation learning.

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Publications
Disentangled Representation Learning via Modular Compositional Bias
Whie Jung, Dong Hoon Lee, and Seunghoon Hong
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
pdf / code
Bridging the gap to real-world language-grounded visual concept learning
Whie Jung, Semin Kim, Junee Kim, and Seunghoon Hong
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
pdf / code
Learning to Compose: Improving Object Centric Learning by Injecting Compositionality
Whie Jung, Jaehoon Yoo, Sungjin Ahn, and Seunghoon Hong
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
pdf / code
Revisiting hierarchical approach for persistent long-term video prediction
Wonkwang Lee, Whie Jung, Han Zhang, Ting Chen, Jing Yu Koh, Thomas Huang, Hyungsuk Yoon, Honglak Lee, and Seunghoon Hong
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021.
pdf / code
Education

2020~ current: Ph.D. student in the School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2017~2019: M.S. in Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2013~2017: B.S. in Enelctrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

2010~2013: Korea Science Academy, Busan, Korea

Honors and Awards

NeurIPS 2024 Top Reviewer, 2024

Outstanding TA Award (CS576 Computer Vision), School of Computing, KAIST, 2021

Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Global Scholarship, 2019

National Science and Technology Scholarship, 2013-2016

Teaching

2022 KAIST CS576 Computer Vision (Spring)

2021 KAIST Counseling Assistant (Fall)

2021 KAIST CS576 Computer Vision (Spring)

2020 KAIST CS470 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Fall)

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2024~, CVPR 2024~, ICML 2025, ICCV 2025, NeurIPS 2024~


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