Jeonghwan Kim
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeonghwan Kim is a research scientist specializing in multimodal large language models, with nine years of experience bridging fine-grained visual perception, grounding, and retrieval-augmented generation to enhance real-world knowledge in MLLMs. Currently at Meta building multimodal foundation models, he has prior applied-science experience at Amazon developing cross-modal satellite image-to-GPS trace encoders and academic roots as a Ph.D. candidate at UIUC and researcher at KAIST. His work spans both core language modeling and practical retrieval systems, and he has applied those techniques to wearable smart-glass agents and geospatial representation learning. A former Republic of Korea Marine Corps sergeant, he brings discipline and operational perspective to high-impact ML research and engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Handong Global UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Korean, Chinese
Github Skills (50)
acl9
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
leaderboard9
foundation-models9
chatbot8
natural-language-processing8
multimodal8
evaluation8
chatgpt7
representations7
google-images7
nlp7
scrapy6
deep-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wjdghks950/NC-BERT
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:49 commits, 16 pushes in 3 months
wjdghks950/wjdghks950.github.io
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Personal Blog
Contributions:73 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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