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AI Research Engineer, AI Lead (promoted Oct. 2023)

Cinamon

• Led research direction, prioritization, technical reviews, and delivery against team objectives as the AI team scaled, aligning researchers, engineers, motion specialists, and product teams to turn research into production-ready outcomes.
• Proposed and productized an agentic LLM/VLM system that coordinated multimodal reasoning and tool use to convert creative intent into precise shot specs and editable 3D previz, ensuring reliable execution, evaluation, and observability in production.
• Built a reusable generative-motion lifecycle spanning 3D data preparation, distributed model training, quantitative and expert evaluation, inference optimization, and production deployment.
• Built and maintained a reusable 3D data-processing package that transformed heterogeneous assets into validated, training-ready representations, establishing the data foundation for the company’s AI model development and production workflows.
• Led the overall research and publication process for a team paper as corresponding author, guiding research direction, experimental design, technical review, and manuscript development.

Research Scientist Intern

KakaoBrain

• Conducted research and experiments across generative modeling approaches, including GANs, flow-based models, diffusion models, and text-to-image generation, covering model design, training, and evaluation.
• Conceived and conducted a research project on variable-length, language-conditioned motion generation, covering the full research lifecycle as first author, from problem formulation and model development to experimentation, evaluation, and manuscript submission.

Machine Learning Scientist

AILYS (formerly Solidware)

• Delivered 10+ on-site machine-learning engagements across Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Malaysia, working directly with client stakeholders to translate business objectives into well-scoped predictive-modeling problems and technical requirements.
• Developed and validated predictive models against client-defined criteria, iterating with stakeholders to align technical outcomes with operational needs.
• Researched, developed, and maintained an AutoML platform, translating machine-learning research and recurring customer requirements into reusable product capabilities.
• Enabled adoption by training business users at client organizations to use the solution independently in their day-to-day workflows.

Corporate Property and Casualty Underwriter

Hanwha General Insurance

• Underwrote personal and corporate property-insurance products for Hanwha Group affiliates, evaluating property exposures and policy risk.

M.S.

Korea University

Artificial Intelligence

• GPA: 4.38 / 4.50; advised by Sungjoon Choi.
• Research: generative models, vision models, deep learning and its applications, human motion generation, and kinematics.

B.S.

Hanyang University

Electronic Engineering

• GPA: 4.08 / 4.50 cumulative; 4.13 / 4.50 major; Summa Cum Laude.

International Exchange

Drexel University

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• GPA: 3.87 / 4.00; Dean’s List in all enrolled quarters.

Controllable Long-term Motion Generation with Extended Joint Targets

WACV 2026

Eunjong Lee, Eunhee Kim, Sanghoon Hong, Eunho Jung, Jihoon Kim† · Project · Paper · Code · Video

Robust and Expressive Humanoid Motion Retargeting via Optimization-Based Rig Unification

IROS 2025

Taemoon Jeong, Taehyun Byun, Jihoon Kim, Keunjun Choi, Jaesung Oh, Sungpyo Lee, Omar Darwish, Joohyung Kim, Sungjoon Choi · Project · Paper · Code · Video

FLAME: Free-form Language-based Motion Synthesis & Editing

AAAI 2023 (Oral)

Jihoon Kim, Jiseob Kim, Sungjoon Choi · Project · Paper · Code · Video

Conditional Motion In-betweening

Pattern Recognition

Jihoon Kim, Taehyun Byun, Seungyoun Shin, Jungdam Won, Sungjoon Choi · Project · Paper · Code · Video

Learning Joint Representation of Human Motion and Language

arXiv

Jihoon Kim, Youngjae Yu, Seungyoun Shin, Taehyun Byun, Sungjoon Choi · Paper

Bronze Award

Kyobo Insuretech Hackathon, Kyobo Insurance

Bronze Award

Culture and Tourism Big Data Contest, Korea Culture & Tourism Institute

First Prize

Engineering School Capstone Design Fair and Graduation Project Competition, Hanyang University

Qualcomm Scholarship Program

Qualcomm Korea

Best Tutor Award

Engineering Mathematics Tutoring Program, Hanyang University

National Science & Technology Scholarship

KOSAF

Academic Excellence Award

Hanyang University