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Toward Simulating Social Phenomenon: Reconstructing Environments, Agents and Social Relations

Subject

Toward Simulating Social Phenomenon: Reconstructing Environments, Agents and Social Relations

Date

2026. 03. 23.(Mon) 4:30pm

Speaker

Prof. Hae-Gon Jeon (Yonsei University)

Place

School of Electrical Engineering(E3-2) Lecture Room 1 (1217)

Overview:

Efforts by researchers in the field of artificial intelligence to simulate social phenomena using computers have continued for more than 40 years. However, due to the inherent complexity and diversity of real-world phenomena, the range of social phenomena that can be implemented is extremely limited.
The speaker’s research goal is to create a framework for understanding social phenomena and for implementing and testing them in arbitrary virtual worlds. In this talk, the speaker will introduce his research outcomes for 3D reconstruction to understand spaces, 3D reconstruction of the human body and its desirable motion generations, as well as methods for modeling how people interact with others or with spatial configurations in socially-acceptable manners. Finally, the speaker will present the initial research result that integrate these components.

Profile:

Prof. Hae-Gon Jeon is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University. He received his B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University from 2018 to 2019. He then served as a faculty member at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) from 2019 to 2025. Since joining Yonsei University in 2025, his research interests include computer vision, robotic vision, and machine learning.