Jinwoo Ahn

I am a third year undergraduate student at Berkeley EECS with an honors concentration in cognitive science. I am currently affiliated with Boeing Research. I will soon be on leave to begin my military service.

Previously, I was affiliated with Berkeley AI Research advised by Roei Herzig and Professor Trevor Darrell on multimodal robotics.

Before this, I worked with Ruiqi Zhong and Professor Jacob Steinhardt on concrete problems of natural language processing. I was very fortunate to be advised by these two researchers, and they are the primary reasons as to why I delve myself into research.

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Research

I envision having AI imitate the human cognition process across modalities. This is, I work with models with different types of inputs to reduce the gap between human and machine cognition. Currently, I focus on Language Disambiguation, Visual Cognition, and Compositional Learning.

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]

Preprints

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

Past News

  • [1/31/2024] I founded AI for Interactive Technology research group.
  • [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)
  • Soohyuk Cho (UC Berkeley)
  • Joon Kim (UC Berkeley)
  • Hyunseo Joo (Linux Data Systems & UC Berkeley)
  • Heejeong Nam (Boeing)
  • Jinri Kim (Boeing)
  • Hyebin Cho (Boeing)
  • Hwiyeon Yoo, PhD (Boeing)
  • Hyeokjoon Kwon (Boeing)

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