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General Information

Full Name Patrick Kwon
Date of Birth 28th Feburary 1997
Languages English, Korean

Education

  • 2018 ~ 2019
    Master of Science
    Columbia University
    • Data Science
    • GPA 3.9/4.0
  • 2015 ~ 2017
    Bachelor of Arts
    University of Virginia
    • Statistics & Computer Science
    • GPA 3.8 / 4.0
    • Two-year early graduation

Experience

  • 2021 - 2023
    Deep learning researcher
    Naver Webtoon
    • Researched and designed deep learning solutions focused on image generation and editing
    • Research projects
      • Chupa: Diffusion-based 3D Human Digitalization project (accepted to ICCV 2023 Oral)
      • LPMM: Facial landmark based Talking-head model (accepted to CVPR 2023 AI4CC Workshop)
      • Sketch Simplification: Translating rough sketch paintings into clean line for colorization
      • Interactive Cartoonization: Interactive image translation of sketches to cartoon images (accepted to CVPR 2022)
    • Programming projects
      • AI Studio: An interactive, user-friendly system of training generative AI models & generating images.
  • 2020-2021
    Deep learning researcher
    Deepbrain AI
    • Researched and designed deep learing solutions for face generation and speech synthesis
    • Research projects
      • KoDF: A Large-scale Korean DeepFake Detection Dataset (accepted to ICCV 2021)
  • 2019-2023
    Research Assistant
    Columbia University CGUI Lab
    • Developed Unity (C♯) based Augmented Reality projects with Professor Steven K. Feiner
    • Research projects
      • ARIOS: Case study research on Augmented Reality-Assisted Intraoral Scanning
      • Pally: Project on improving social skills for autistic children using Microsoft Hololens and 5G Network.
  • 2019-2019
    Data Scientist
    Emadri
    • Designed recommendation systems for recommending packing list items for travelers.
  • 2017-2018
    Data Scientist
    Krafton Studios
    • Provided data-centered insight on game development.

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • Verizon 5G Edtech Challenge Winning Project
  • 2017
    • UVA Order of the Orange Stole
    • UVA Dean's List

Academic Interests

  • Image Generation
    • Diffusion-based Generative models
    • Image translation
    • Talking-head video generation
  • 3D Generation
    • Human Digitalization