Kim Youwang

Kim Youwang

youwang.kim@postech.ac.kr

I am a Ph.D. student at POSTECH, advised by Tae-Hyun Oh. My research aims to advance photorealistic virtual experiences and simulation by synthesizing realistic 3D/4D digital twins from limited data and observations.

During my PhD period, I was fortunate to work as a research scientist intern at the Meta Codec Avatars Lab, working with Chen Cao, Yaser Sheikh, and Jovan Popović. I also work closely with Gerard Pons-Moll and was a visiting Ph.D. researcher at the Real Virtual Humans Group at the Univ. of Tübingen. I received my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from POSTECH.

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Experience

Meta Codec Avatars Lab - Research Scientist Intern, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Oct '24 - Mar '25
Working on feed-forward Codec Avatar (Managers: Chen Cao, Yaser Sheikh)
University of Tübingen - Visiting Ph.D. Student, Tübingen, Germany Oct '23 - Mar '24
Working with the Real Virtual Humans group (Advisor: Gerard Pons-Moll)
POSTECH - Ph.D. Candidate, Pohang, Korea (Advisor: Tae-Hyun Oh) Sep '20 - Present

Research

I'm interested in computer vision, graphics and generative modeling. My research is mainly about synthesizing realistic 3D/4D digital twins for humans, animals, objects, robots and scenes, from limited data and observations.

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