Wonjae Kim / 김원재

ML/HCI Research Scientist


I am a lead research scientist at TwelveLabs. Prior to joining TwelveLabs, I worked as a research scientist at Naver AI LAB and 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 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)

news

2025/02 I’ve started a new chapter at TwelveLabs!
2025/01 One ICLR-2025 paper to appear: Probabilistic Language-Image Pre-Training.
2024/12 One AAAI-2025 paper to appear: Extract Free Dense Misalignment from CLIP.
2024/07 One ECCV-2024 oral paper to appear: HYPE: Hyperbolic Entailment Filtering for Underspecified Images and Texts.
2024/07 One TMLR paper: CompoDiff: Versatile Composed Image Retrieval With Latent Diffusion