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Junyeong Ahn

AI Researcher

@{HYU, KAIST AI}



I'm an M.S./Ph.D. integrated student at KAIST Graduate School of AI (GSAI), and a member of the DAVIAN Lab. Previously, I worked as an AI researcher at dob Studio Inc., and as a research intern at the Samsung Electronics DS AI Center.

My research interests include 3D vision and diffusion models, especially animatable/relightable avatar reconstruction.

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Education

  • MS/Ph.D Integrated in AI, 2026 -

    KAIST, Korea

    Advisor: Prof. Jaegul Choo

  • BS in Data Science, 2020 - 2026

    Hanyang University, Korea

    Major GPA: 4.42 / 4.5 (98.6%, Summa Cum Laude)

Research Experiences

  • KAIST, Seongnam, South Korea
    Sep. 2024 - Feb. 2026
    Research Intern, DAVIAN Lab.
  • Samsung Electronics, Gyeonggi, South Korea
    Mar. 2025 - Jun. 2025
    Research Intern, AI Center.
  • Depaul University, Chicago, USA (Remote)
    Nov. 2022 - Sep. 2024
    Research Intern, Data Science Innovation Lab.
  • dob Studio Inc., Seoul, South Korea
    Sep. 2023 - Oct. 2024
    AI Researcher, R&D Center.
  • Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
    Dec. 2023 - Feb. 2024
    Explore CSR Student, SKI-ML Lab.
  • Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
    Oct. 2020 - Feb. 2021
    Research Intern, Data Science Innovation Lab.

Publications

  • TexAvatars: Hybrid Texel-3D Representations for Stable Rigging of Photorealistic Gaussian Head Avatars

    *Jaeseong Lee, *Junyeong Ahn, Taewoong Kang, Jaegul Choo

    * denotes equal contribution

    3DV 2026, Vancouver, Canada

    [ paper ]

  • Blind (Diffusion Models Concept Erasure)

    *Junyeong Ahn, *Seojin Yoon, Sungyong Baik

    * denotes equal contribution

    Under review

  • Digital Health Sensor Data in Autism: Developing Few Shot Learning Approaches for Traditional Machine Learning Classifiers

    Casey C Bennett, Cedomir Stanojevic, Jiyeong Oh, Junyeong Ahn, Yeeun Jeon, Kanghee Son, Nikki Abbott

    IEEE BSN 2024, Chicago, USA

    [ paper ]