Jihoon Kim

AI Research Engineer & Technical Lead

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I’m Jihoon Kim, an AI Research Engineer & Technical Lead focused on production AI systems that bring together multimodal agents and generative AI models. At Cinamon, I work across agentic story planning, multimodal generation, and the broader AI lifecycle, from 3D data processing and distributed training through evaluation, inference, and deployment. My interests include AI agent applications, generative model training and optimization, and reliable inference in production. Earlier in my career, I worked on generative model research at KakaoBrain and contributed to enterprise AutoML product development and client delivery at AILYS. I hold an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Korea University and a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Hanyang University.

selected publications

  1. WACV
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    Controllable Long-term Motion Generation with Extended Joint Targets
    Eunjong Lee, Eunhee Kim, Sanghoon Hong, Eunho Jung, and Jihoon Kim
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV); corresponding author: Jihoon Kim , Mar 2026
  2. IROS
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    Robust and Expressive Humanoid Motion Retargeting via Optimization-Based Rig Unification
    Taemoon Jeong, Taehyun Byun, Jihoon Kim, Keunjun Choi, Jaesung Oh, Sungpyo Lee, Omar Darwish, Joohyung Kim, and Sungjoon Choi
    In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
  3. AAAI
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    FLAME: Free-form Language-based Motion Synthesis & Editing
    Jihoon Kim, Jiseob Kim, and Sungjoon Choi
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; oral presentation , 2023
  4. Pattern Recogn.
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    Conditional Motion In-betweening
    Jihoon Kim, Taehyun Byun, Seungyoun Shin, Jungdam Won, and Sungjoon Choi
    Pattern Recognition, Dec 2022