Jinwoo Ahn

I am a third year undergraduate student at Berkeley EECS with an honors concentration in cognitive science. I am currently on leave from academia and industry for my military service at the Combined Forces Command at USAG Humphreys.

I was previously affiliated with Boeing Research as a research intern. Before this, I worked with Roei Herzig on large multimodal models and Ruiqi Zhong on concrete problems of natural language processing.

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Research

I envision developing Artificial Intelligence services that imitate the human cognition process across modalities. For this purpose, I work with models with different types of inputs to reduce the gap between human and machine cognition. Currently, I focus on Intention Disambiguation, Visual Cognition, and Compositional Learning.

Preprints

VAGUE: Visual Contexts Clarify Ambiguous Expressions
Heejeong Nam*, Jinwoo Ahn*, Keummin Ka, Jiwan Chung, Youngjae Yu
arXiv 2025
[paper] [code]

Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Object Recognition via User-Guided Segmentation
Jinwoo Ahn, Hyeokjoon Kwon, Hwiyeon Yoo
arXiv 2024
[paper]

Recursive Chain-of-Feedback Prevents Performance Degradation from Redundant Prompting
Jinwoo Ahn, Kyuseung shin
arXiv 2024
[paper]

Publications

Goal Driven Discovery of Distributional Differences via Language Descriptions
Ruiqi Zhong, Peter Zhang, Steve Li, Jinwoo Ahn, Dan Klein, Jacob Steinhardt
NeurIPS 2023
[paper] [code]

Past News

  • [1/2/2025] I will be serving at the Combined Forces Command.
  • [9/15/2024] I am now a part of AttentionX as a guest member.
  • [1/15/2024] I will be returning to Boeing as a Research Intern.
  • [9/21/2023] One paper has been accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
  • [7/15/2023] I am now a part of the Berkeley EECS Honors Program.
  • [6/26/2023] I will be working at Boeing as a Research Intern.
  • [6/12/2022] I will be working at Dashlabs.ai as a Software Engineering Intern.

Miscellaneous

  • I come from a multicultural background. I was born in Korea, grew up in China, and am now living in the US.
  • I train mixed martial arts. I occasionally go on amateur leagues and want to fight professionally someday.
  • I have my own way of staying disciplined. I either run and/or train at the gym every day.

Collaboration

I am very optimistic towards collaboration, especially if we plan to submit to top-tier venues or legalize it as patents. I frequently pursue personal projects with external and internal collaborators on ideas that I find worth investigating. If you believe you will benefit from having a collaborator like me, please do not hesitate to reach out via email.

Below are my fantastic collaborators that I worked or am currently working:

  • Seoyeon Kim (Qualcomm & UCSB)
  • Junghyun Oh (Boeing & SNU)
  • Kyuseung Shin (Everspin & UC Berkeley)
  • Heejeong Nam (Boeing)
  • Jinri Kim (Boeing)
  • Hyebin Cho (Boeing)
  • Hwiyeon Yoo, PhD (Boeing)
  • Hyeokjoon Kwon (Boeing)
  • Youngjae Yu, PhD (Yonsei)

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