Wonjae Kim / 김원재

ML/HCI Research Scientist


I am a research scientist at Naver AI LAB. Prior to joining Naver, I worked as a research scientist at Kakao. I completed my M.Sc. and B.Sc. in computer science and engineering at Seoul National University.

I am interested in the following research topics:

  • Multimodal (Vision-and-Language) Representation Learning
  • Self-supervised Representation Learning
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Visualization

selected publications

  1. NeurIPS
    Learning Dynamics of Attention: Human Prior for Interpretable Machine Reasoning
    Wonjae Kim, and Yoonho Lee
    32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019)
  2. ICML Long talk
    ViLT: Vision-and-Language Transformer Without Convolution or Region Supervision
    Wonjae Kim*, Bokyung Son*, and Ildoo Kim
    *Equal contribution
    38th International Conference on Machine Learnings (ICML 2021)
  3. ECCV Oral
    HYPE: Hyperbolic Entailment Filtering for Underspecified Images and Texts
    Wonjae Kim, Sanghyuk Chun, Taekyung Kim, Dongyoon Han, and Sangdoo Yun
    19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)