Jiwon Kang
Integrated M.S./Ph.D. Student — KAIST AI (CVLAB)
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Education

KAIST, South Korea
Integrated M.S./Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI
Advisor: Prof. Seungryong Kim (CVLAB)
Mar. 2025 – Present
Korea University, Seoul
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering — Double Major in Statistics — GPA: 4.24 / 4.5
Undergraduate Research Intern, CVLAB (Sep. 2022 – Feb. 2025), Advisor: Seungryong Kim
Mar. 2019 – Feb. 2025

Experience

Kakao, Seoul
Research Intern
Worked on Exploring Whisper as a Continuous Tokenizer for Text-to-Speech (under review).
Mar. 2026 – May 2026

Publications

* denotes equal contribution.  ·  † denotes corresponding author.

International Conference

APPLE: Attribute-Preserving Pseudo-Labeling for Diffusion-Based Face Swapping
Jiwon Kang*, Yeji Choi*, JoungBin Lee, Wooseok Jang, Jinhyeok Choi, Taekeun Kang, Yongjae Park, Myungin Kim, Seungryong Kim†
CVPR, 2026
A Noise is Worth Diffusion Guidance
Donghoon Ahn*, Jiwon Kang*, Sanghyun Lee, Jaewon Min, Wooseok Jang, Minjae Kim, Hyungwon Cho, Sayak Paul, SeonHwa Kim, Eunju Cha†, Kyong Hwan Jin†, Seungryong Kim†
ICLR, 2026
Where and How to Perturb: On the Design of Perturbation Guidance in Diffusion and Flow Models
Donghoon Ahn*, Jiwon Kang*, Sanghyun Lee, Minjae Kim, Wooseok Jang, Jaewon Min, Sangwu Lee, Sayak Paul, Seungryong Kim†
NeurIPS, 2025

Workshop

Self-Evolving Neural Radiance Fields
Jaewoo Jung*, Jisang Han*, Jiwon Kang*, Seongchan Kim, Min-Seop Kwak, Seungryong Kim†
ICCV Workshop (Wild3D), 2025

Preprints & Under Review

Exploring Whisper as a Continuous Tokenizer for Text-to-Speech
Jiwon Kang, Heeji Yoon, Woo-Young Kang, Sunghun Kang, Jihwan Eom, Jaeyeol Jeon, Byungseok Roh, Seungryong Kim†
Under Review · Kakao
Transferability Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
Jiwon Kang*, Heeji Yoon*, Jaewoo Jung, Jaewon Min, Minkyeong Jeon, Biyeon Hwang, Sangwon Jung, Seungryong Kim†
Under Review
RAIN-GS: Relaxing Accurate Initialization Constraint for 3D Gaussian Splatting
Jaewoo Jung*, Jisang Han*, Honggyu An*, Jiwon Kang*, Seonghoon Park*, Seungryong Kim†
Under Review

Extracurricular Activities

AIKU (Artificial Intelligence Society of Korea University)
Co-founder and Vice President — Academic research society for undergraduate students
Sep. 2022 – Aug. 2023