Ji-Hoon Kim and Hyeonggon Ryu have been appointed as assistant professors at leading universities in Korea. They are Ph.D. candidates from Prof. Joon Son Chung’s Multimodal AI Lab in the School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, and will receive their Ph.D. degrees in February 2026.
Ji-Hoon Kim has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film at Chung-Ang University, effective March 1, 2026. During his doctoral studies, he conducted research on human-centric multimodal artificial intelligence and published research papers in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), and the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He plans to continue his research on multimodal AI technologies for natural interaction between humans and artificial intelligence.
Hyeonggon Ryu has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language & AI at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, effective March 1, 2026. His research focused on audio-visual multimodal artificial intelligence, and he has published research papers in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), and the CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). He plans to pursue further research on audio-visual multimodal AI, contributing to both academic and industrial developments.
These appointments reflect the outcomes of Prof. Joon Son Chung’s lab, which fosters an environment that encourages independent research and active participation in international academic activities in the field of multimodal artificial intelligence.
