Sojung An

Hello! I am a Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at Korea University. My research interests lie in representation learning and multimodal AI.

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Publications

First Author

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2026

Talk in Pieces, See in Whole: Disentangling and Hierarchical Aggregating Representations for Language-based Object Detection

Sojung An*, Kwanyong Park*, Yong Jae Lee, Donghyun Kim

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Findings (EMNLP Findings) 2026

KSAFE-MM: A Multimodal Safety Benchmark via Localized Contextualization for Korean Cultural Risks

Yongwoo Kim*, Sojung An*, Yunjin Park, Jungwon Yoon, Dujin Lee, HyunBeom Cho, Jaewon Lee, Wonhyuk Lee, Youngchol Kim, JeongYeop Kim, Donghyun Kim

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026

LoCA: Spatially-Aware Low-Rank Convolutional Adaptation of Vision Foundation Models

Sojung An*, Junha Lee*, Sujeong You, Nam Ik Cho, Donghyun Kim

Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025

Self-Supervised Learning with Probabilistic Density Labeling for Rainfall Probability Estimation

Junha Lee*, Sojung An*, Sujeong You, Namik Cho

Expert Systems with Applications, 2025

Deep learning for precipitation nowcasting: A survey from the perspective of time series forecasting

Sojung An, Tae-Jin Oh, Eunha Sohn, Donghyun Kim

Scientific Reports, 2024

Self-clustered GAN for precipitation nowcasting

Sojung An, Tae-Jin Oh, Sang-Wook Kim, Jason J. Jung

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2023

Nowcast-to-Forecast: Token-Based Multiple Remote Sensing Data Fusion for Precipitation Forecast

Sojung An

International Conference on Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (Computing4Human) 2021

Neural Network Emulator Optimizer: A Preliminary Study on Korean Microphysics Parameterization Model

Sojung An, Inchae Na, Tae-Jin Oh, Junghan Kim

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2019

A heuristic approach on metadata recommendation for search engine optimization

Sojung An, Jason J. Jung

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Digital Convergence Business (ICIDB 2019)

Topic Modeling-based Decision Support System for Search Engine Optimization

Sojung An, Jason J. Jung

International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE) 2018

Zooming in and out our society: Discovering macro/micro events from social media

Sojung An, Minsu Kang, Jaehong Park, Jason J. Jung, Sathit Prasomphan

Co-Author

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2026

Training-free label space alignment for universal domain adaptation

Dujin Lee, Sojung An, Jungmyung Wi, Kuniaki Saito, Donghyun Kim

Korean Journal of Remote Sensing, 2026

Development of a Wintertime Proxy Radar Based on Geo-Kompsat-2A Time-Series Artificial Intelligence for Compensating Weather Radar Observational Gaps

MinJoung Joung, Jinyoung Kim, Eunha Sohn, Sojung An, Yoonjae Kim, Seonkyeong Seong

International Journal of Computer Vision, 2025

Learning Compositionality from Multifaceted Synthetic Data for Language-based Object Detection

Kwanyong Park, Sojung An, Yong Jae Lee, Donghyun Kim

Applied Sciences, 2022

AWMC: Abnormal-Weather Monitoring and Curation Service Based on Dynamic Graph Embedding

Yuxuan Gu, Jiakai Gu, Gen Li, Heeseung Yun, Jason J. Jung, Sojung An, David Camacho

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2019

Cross-cultural contextualisation for recommender systems

Minsung Hong, Sojung An, Rajendra Akerkar, David Camacho, Jason J. Jung

Patents

Method and apparatus of metadata recommendation service

Jason J. Jung, Sojung An

KR 10-2205061-0000, 2021.01

Education

Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Korea University

2024.09 - Present

M.S. in Computer Engineering, Chung-Ang University

2018.03 - 2020.02

B.S. in Computer Software, Korean Bible University

2014.03 - 2018.02

Experience

Researcher, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems

2021.04 - 2024.08

Researcher, Korea Meteorological Administration

2020.07 - 2021.03

Honors and Awards

Seoul AI Tech Scholarship, 2025.
Minister of Science and ICT Award (Project Lead, 1st of 100 Teams), 2025.
Administrator’s Commendation for Meritorious Service, Korea Meteorological Administration, 2024.
Outstanding Employee Award, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, 2022.
KSIIM President’s Award (3rd Place), Medical Data AI Hackathon, sponsored by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, 2022.
Young Researcher Award, KIICE/WISET, 2019.
Best Paper Award for “Topic Modeling-based Decision Support System for Search Engine Optimization,” International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Digital Convergence Business (ICIDB), 2019.

Activities

Led a research project as senior researcher, "Improving Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models for Vision-Language Tasks," 2025.04 - 2025.11.
Student body president of the graduate school, Chung-Ang University, 2019.
Teaching assistant for C/Python programming, Chung-Ang University, 2018 - 2019.
Led a research project as senior researcher, "Topic Modeling-based Decision Making for Search Engine Optimization," 2018.04 - 2018.11.
Volunteer instructor for coding education, Microsoft and JA Korea, 2016 - 2017.

Invited Talks

The Catholic University of Korea, 2023.09.
National Meteorological Satellite Center, 2023.07.

Academic Service

Program committee member, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024.
Advisory council member, National Meteorological Satellite Center, 2023.
Website chair, International Conference on Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (Computing4Human), 2021.