Soonwoo Kwon

Research Scientis at Twelve Labs

I’m a research scientist at Twelve Labs developing multi-modal AI that understands videos. I did my Master’s degree at KAIST, under the supervision of Prof. Eunho Yang.

My research interest includes:

  • Multi-modal representation learning
  • Generative model
  • Embodied agents

Work Experiences

  • Research Scientist, Twelve Labs, Seoul, South Korea (Apr 2024 - Present)
  • Research Scientist, Riiid, Seoul, South Korea (Mar 2022 - Apr 2024)
  • Research Intern, Socar, Seoul, South Korea (Oct 2021 - Feb 2022)
  • Research Intern, KIXLAB, Daejon, South Korea (Jan 2019 - May 2019)
  • Research Intern, Dutt’s Research Group(DRG), Irvine, USA (Jun 2018 – Dec 2018)

Journal Publications

  • ScoreCL: Augmentation-Adaptive Contrastive Learning via Score-Matching Function [paper]
    Jin-Young Kim*, Soonwoo Kwon*, Hyojun Go*, Yunsung Lee, Seungtaek Choi
    Machine Learning 2024

Conference Publications

  • Denoising Task Difficulty-based Curriculum for Training Diffusion Models [paper]
    Jin-Young Kim*, Hyojun Go*, Soonwoo Kwon*, Hyun-Gyoon Kim
    ICLR 2025

  • BIPED: Pedagogically Informed Tutoring System for ESL Education [paper]
    Soonwoo Kwon, Sojung Kim, Minju Park, Seunghyun Lee, Kyuseok Kim
    ACL 2024

  • Empowering Personalized Learning through a Conversation-based Tutoring System with Student Modeling [paper]
    Minju Park, Sojung Kim, Seunghyun Lee, Soonwoo Kwon, Kyuseok Kim
    CHI Late-Breaking Work 2024

  • Addressing Selection Bias in Computerized Adaptive Testing: A User-Wise Aggregate Influence Function Approach [paper]
    Soonwoo Kwon*, Sojung Kim*, Seunghyun Lee, Jin-Young Kim, Suyeong An, Kyuseok Kim
    CIKM 2023

  • How Older Adults Use Online Videos for Learning [paper]
    Seoyoung Kim, Donghoon Shin, Jeongyeon Kim, Soonwoo Kwon, Juho Kim
    CHI 2023

Education