📑 About Me

• Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
• Research Statement (PDF)

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🧠 Interests

AGI, Multimodal Large Language Model, Generative Model, Reinforcement Learning, Efficient AI

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🎓 Education

MS in Artificial Intelligence, Korea University
2025.03 – Present

BS in Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University
2019.03 – 2025.02

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📄 Publications

• Slot-MLLM: Object-Centric Visual Tokenization for Multimodal LLM
  Donghwan Chi*, Hyomin Kim*, Yoonjin Oh, Yongjin Kim, Donghoon Lee, Daejin Jo, Jongmin Kim, Junyeob Baek, Sungjin Ahn, Sungwoong Kim
  May 2025
  Introduced Slot Q-Former to enhance multimodal LLMs in object-centric visual understanding, generation, and editing tasks.

• Object-centric Self-improving Preference Optimization for Text-to-Image Generation
  Yoonjin Oh, Yongjin Kim, Hyomin Kim, Donghwan Chi, Sungwoong Kim
  May 2025
  Proposed the OSPO framework to mitigate object-level hallucinations in text-to-image generation models.

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🔬 Research Experience

AGI Lab, Korea University
Undergraduate Intern, Master Student
2023.09 – Present

• Led project and co-authored paper on multimodal LLM
• Set up and managed lab server infrastructure

Machine Learning & Vision Lab, Korea University
Undergraduate Intern
2022.09 – 2023.08

• Researched graph learning in the context of AGI
• Conducted project related to graph structures

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💼 Projects

Family Portrait: Multi-ID Face Synthesis
2024.12

• Built generative model with latent diffusion
• Developed working demo for multi-face image synthesis

Canary: Military Security Alert System
2021.10

• Built object detection system for military equipment
• Curated training/test dataset

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👨‍🏫 Activities

Artificial Intelligence Korea University (AIKU)
1st Senior Member (2023.01 – 2024.01)

• Led technical and academic team
• Designed hackathon problems and diffusion model projects
• Taught AI intro course to new members

Korea University Institute of Computer Security
Regular Member (2019.03 – 2020.02)

• Participated in system hacking study

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🏅 Honors & Awards

• Excellence Award, Capstone Design Competition, 2024
• Academic Excellence Scholarship, 2024
• Special Scholarship by Student Affairs Office, 2023–2024
• OSAM Hackathon Navy Award, 2021
• High Honors (4 semesters)

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💻 Skills

• Languages: Python, PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning
• Engineering: Distributed Learning, Large Scale Training
• English Proficiency: TOEIC 905