Youngjae Yu

Youngjae Yu is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Yonsei University, working on computer vision, natural language processing and multimodal learning. Before joining Yonsei, he was a researcher at Allen Institute for AI (AI2). He received his Ph.D., B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Seoul National University. His research interest includes video understanding and large language models, especially in large-scale video dataset curation for multimodal foundation models. Yu's research has been recognized through the Best paper award (NAACL 2022), Outstanding paper awards (EMNLP 2023, ACL 2024).