Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Sep. 2024 β Feb. 2027 (expected)
M.S. Student, Kim Jaechul Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence
Music and Audio Computing Lab Β· Advisor: Prof. Juhan Nam
Hello! I'm an M.S. student at Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST (KAIST AI) in the Music and Audio Computing Lab, advised by Prof. Juhan Nam. I received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yonsei University, where I worked on voice conversion with Prof. Hong-Goo Kang.
My research experience spans representation learning, controllable generation, and automated perceptual evaluation in speech. My broader goal is to build speech-centered multimodal AI that can perceive, represent, and generate cues beyond words across speech and other modalities, enabling more natural and affective humanβAI interaction.
Research interests
π I am actively looking for a Ph.D. position for Fall 2027.
Seoul, South Korea
01 / Updates
Presented MeloDISinger at the Interspeech 2026 poster session π¨.
Our system ranked first in Track 2 of the VoiceMOS Challenge 2026 for predicting speech naturalness and emotion similarity in emotional TTS! π₯.
Visited the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics for a research stay to work on a survey of empathetic and conversational spoken language systems π©πͺ.
Gave a research talk on MeloDISinger at the AIR Lab Seminar, University of Rochester πΊπΈ.
MeloDISinger, my first M.S. work on singing voice editing, was accepted to Interspeech 2026 π.
Received CAD 37K in government funding for research training and joined the University of Toronto as a visiting graduate student π¨π¦.
Volunteered at ISMIR 2025 and had a great time meeting the MIR community πΆ.
Served as a student coordinator for the KSMI 2025 Founding Symposium π°π·.
CoT-Sep, my first paper, was accepted for an oral presentation at IEEE FLLM 2024. π
Started my M.S. at KAIST AI. π
02 / Background
Sep. 2024 β Feb. 2027 (expected)
M.S. Student, Kim Jaechul Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence
Music and Audio Computing Lab Β· Advisor: Prof. Juhan Nam
Jan. 2026 β Jun. 2026
Visiting Graduate Research Student
CARTE-IITP industry research program with LG Electronics Toronto AI Lab
Mar. 2019 β Aug. 2024
B.S. in Computer Science
Overall GPA: 3.8/4.3 Β· CS GPA: 3.96/4.3
Jan. 2023 β Apr. 2023
Exchange Student, Computer Engineering
03 / Selected work