Kim Youwang

Kim Youwang

youwang.kim@postech.ac.kr

I am a Ph.D. student at POSTECH. I build photorealistic and social world simulations for the next generation of physical AI and global communication. Specifically, I solve challenging inverse problems of synthesizing photorealistic and 3D/4D digital twins, including humans, scenes, objects, using real-time graphics and generative AI.

I am an incoming research scientist intern at NVIDIA Real-Time Graphics Research. I will also be re-joining Meta Codec Avatars Lab as a research scientist intern. I was a research scientist intern at Meta Codec Avatars Lab, and a visiting Ph.D. researcher at the Real Virtual Humans Group at the Univ. of Tübingen.

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Experience

Meta Codec Avatars Lab - Research Scientist Intern, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jun '26 - Nov '26
Re-joining the Codec Avatars Lab (Manager: Chen Cao)
NVIDIA Real-Time Graphics Research - Research Scientist Intern, Remote Mar '26 - Jun '26
Working on generative models and neural rendering (Manager: Aaron Lefohn)
Meta Codec Avatars Lab - Research Scientist Intern, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Oct '24 - Mar '25
Working on feed-forward Codec Avatar (Managers: Yaser Sheikh, Chen Cao)
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 - Feb '27 (Expected)

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