I am a Machine Learning Research Engineer at PYLER, developing video understanding AI to boost advertising performance and strengthen brand value.

I specialize in video understanding, multi-modal deep learning, and scalable evaluation systems, with experience in R&D for video anomaly detection, medical image segmentation, and end-to-end ML model evaluation platforms.

  • Graduated with honors from Yonsei University (M.S.) and The Catholic University of Korea (B.S.)
  • Published as first author at premier international conference, and co-authored numerous publications
  • Served as a peer reviewer for renowned international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)

Contact

πŸ“§ skd@yonsei.ac.kr

πŸ“ 396 Seocho-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea

🏒 PYLER AI Lab

Education

  • M.S. in Computer Science, 2025 GPA 4.33/4.5

    Yonsei University, Seoul

  • B.S. in Computer Science, 2023 GPA 4.17/4.5 (Rank 4/51)

    The Catholic University of Korea

Recent NewsπŸŽ‰

  • [Dec 2025] πŸŽ‰ Poster accepted to NVIDIA GTC 2026 (San Jose, USA) - Scene-Aware Video RAG
  • [Nov 2025] πŸ“„ Two papers accepted to SAC 2026 (Thessaloniki, Greece) as ORAL presentations
  • [Nov 2025] πŸ“„ Two papers accepted to WACV 2026 (Arizona, USA)
  • [Jul 2025] πŸŽ‰ Started as ML Research Engineer at PYLER
  • [Feb 2025] πŸŽ‰ Won Best Presentation Paper Award for LVLM-based video anomaly detection at Korea Software Congress!
  • [Feb 2025] πŸ“„ Paper accepted to PAKDD 2025 (Sydney, AUS) as an ORAL presentation
  • [Nov 2024] πŸ“„ Paper accepted to SAC 2025 (Sicily, Italy) as an ORAL presentation
  • [Sep 2024] πŸ“„ Paper accepted to ACCV 2024 (Hanoi, Vietnam)
  • [Feb 2024] πŸ“„ Paper accepted to IEEE Access (SCI(E))
  • [Dec 2023] πŸ“„ Paper accepted to BigComp 2024 as an ORAL presentation (Bangkok, Thailand)
  • [Mar 2023] πŸŽ“ Joined DELAB at Yonsei University for my MS Program

Experiences

 
 
 
 
 

ML Research Engineer (Technical Research Personnel)

PYLER

July 2025 – Present Seoul, Korea
  • Building a Video AI Evaluation Platform
    • Benchmarking: Build an evaluation pipeline for video understanding and benchmark frontier models (e.g., Gemini, GPT)
    • Monitoring: Design a scenario-based evaluation system for daily health checks and regression detection after model updates
    • Visualization: Develop an interactive web dashboard to review and share research results and demonstrate outcomes to external partners (e.g., Samsung Electronics)
    • Infrastructure: Architect a Ray-based distributed video indexing pipeline to process ~300 videos in parallel and build a Feast-based feature store serving as the single source of truth (SSOT) for video-derived features
  • Research on Video Understanding
    • Video Scene Segmentation: Study methods for segmenting videos into meaningful narrative units (scenes) while preserving contextual information
    • Video RAG: Explore retrieval-augmented generation approaches that leverage visual and audio signals for efficient storage and retrieval of video knowledge
 
 
 
 
 

AI Researcher

Data Engineering LAB

March 2022 – May 2025 Seoul, Korea

Projects

 
 
 
 
 

Scene-Aware Summarization for Long & Multi-Video RAG

PYLER

October 2025 – December 2025

Poster presentation

Accepted at NVIDIA GTC 2026, San Jose, CA

  • Enhanced video retrieval performance through scene-based video indexing
  • Conducted Video QA experiments comparing uniform segmentation and scene-based segmentation on long-video benchmark
 
 
 
 
 

AI-Powered Smart Fridge Chatbot

Catholic Univ.

January 2022 – May 2022

Team project

Grand Prize in Capstone Design Contest (Top project)

Publications

AMoE-BTS: An Adaptive Mixture of Experts for Clinical Decision Support in Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation

Jeongeun Kim , Youngwan Jo , Sunghyun Ahn , Sanghyun Park ORAL
ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Thessaloniki, Greece πŸ“Š BK List (2026)

GranQ: Efficient Channel-wise Quantization via Vectorized Pre-Scaling for Zero-Shot QAT

Inpyo Hong , Youngwan Jo , Hyojeong Lee , Sunghyun Ahn , Kijung Lee , Sanghyun Park ORAL
ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Thessaloniki, Greece πŸ“Š BK List (2026)
[ arXiv ]

AnyAnomaly: Zero-shot Customizable Video Anomaly Detection with LVLM

Sunghyun Ahn* , Youngwan Jo* , Kijung Lee , Sein Kwon , Inpyo Hong , Sanghyun Park First Author
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Arizona, USA πŸ† Premier (2026)
[ arXiv / code / project / video ]

Unified Video Anomaly Detection Model for Detecting Different Anomaly Types

Kijung Lee , Youngwan Jo , Sunghyun Ahn , Sanghyun Park
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Arizona, USA πŸ† Premier (2026)

MDVAD: Multimodal Diffusion for Video Anomaly Detection

Kijung Lee , Youngwan Jo , Sunghyun Ahn , Sanghyun Park ORAL
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Sydney, AUS πŸ“Š BK List (2025)
[ arXiv ]

Advanced Knowledge Transfer: Refined Feature Distillation for Zero-Shot Quantization in Edge Computing

Inpyo Hong , Youngwan Jo , Hyojeong Lee , Sunghyun Ahn , Sanghyun Park ORAL
ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Sicily, Italy πŸ“Š BK List (2025)
[ arXiv ]

VideoPatchCore: An Effective Method to Memorize Normality for Video Anomaly Detection

Sunghyun Ahn , Youngwan Jo , Kijung Lee , Sanghyun Park First Author
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Hanoi, Vietnam πŸ“Š BK List (2024)
[ arXiv / code / project ]

Making Anomalies More Anomalous: Video Anomaly Detection Using a Novel Generator and Destroyer

Seungkyun Hong* , Sunghyun Ahn* , Youngwan Jo , Sanghyun Park First Author
IEEE Access πŸ”¬ SCI(E) (2024)
[ arXiv / code / project ]

Dual Stream Fusion U-Net Transformers for 3D Medical Image Segmentation

Seungkyun Hong* , Sunghyun Ahn* , Youngwan Jo , Sanghyun Park First Author ORAL
IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), Bangkok, Thailand (2024)
[ arXiv / code / project ]

Academic Services

Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) - 2026
  • Pattern Recognition (PR) - 2024, 2025
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) - 2023, 2024
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp) - 2023, 2024
  • Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) - 2023

Teaching

  • Short Courses: Application In Database Systems, Yonsei University [View] - 2024
  • Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Computer Science, Yonsei University - 2023, 2024
  • Teaching Assistant: Deep Learning based Anomaly Detection Modeling, Yonsei University [View] - 2023

Awards & Honors

Best Presentation Paper Award

Awarded for presenting a paper on LVLM-based video anomaly detection at the Korea Software Congress
See certificate

Academic Excellence Award (Magna Cum Laude, Top 8%)

Graduated in the top 8% of the class and received magna cum laude honors in recognition of academic excellence

Grand Award - Capstone Design Contest

First place in the Capstone Design Competition for an AI-based food expiration-date management chatbot

Top 9 Finalist - Financial Security Idea Competition

Top 9 finalist in a financial security idea competition for a GAN-based palmprint authentication system