Souyoung Jin

Souyoung Jin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Science with expertise in video understanding. She earned her B.S. from Dongguk University, M.S. from KAIST, Ph.D. from UMass Amherst, and completed a postdoc at MIT's CSAIL under Aude Oliva. She teaches courses like Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and leads research on AI systems mimicking human perception. Her lab explores multimodal tasks and synthetic data applications. She is an Area Chair for WACV 2025 and actively recruits motivated students for her lab.

Education:

• B.S., Dongguk University
• M.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Postdoc, MIT

Research Interests:
Dr. Jin develops AI systems to understand human experiences through video analysis. Her work spans video understanding, synthetic data applications, and cognitive-inspired models. She emphasizes temporal context in low-resource regimes and cross-modal learning. Recent projects include BOLD Moments (fMRI-video datasets) and LangNav (language-based navigation).

Grants & Labs:
Her research is supported by grants focusing on synthetic video representations and multimodal fusion. She leads Dartmouth's Video Understanding Lab, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations between computer vision and cognitive science.