Youngjoong Kwon

Youngjoong Kwon is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Emory University (Fall 2025), with postdoctoral research experience at Stanford University's Translational AI Lab and Vision and Learning Lab, and Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS from Yonsei University, Korea.

• Education:
  • PhD, Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2023)
  • BS, Computer Science, Yonsei University (2017)
• Research: His work bridges Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, focusing on human performance capture, avatar modeling, neural rendering, and telepresence systems. Recent publications demonstrate expertise in sparse view synthesis, deformable light fields, and real-time 3D avatar generation.
• Awards:
  • Bronze Prize, 27th HumanTech Paper Award, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (2022)
• Academic Engagement: Active as Area Chair (3DV 2026) and reviewer for top conferences (CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, etc.) and journals.
• Collaborations: Hosted by institutions including University of British Columbia, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stanford University, Adobe Research, NVIDIA Research, Texas A&M University, and Brown University for invited talks.