Junwoo Park
M.S. student in Computer Science at UC Irvine
junwoop5@uci.edu
I am an incoming M.S. student in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), where I work as a research assistant at the AI-Healthcare Lab, advised by Prof. Sujee Lee.
My research interests center on:
- AI for healthcare: building robust AI systems for healthcare and biomedical applications.
- Multimodal LLMs: adapting language models to diverse data modalities.
Outside research, I like building things people actually use, from a campus announcement app to an AI platform for my university’s mascot. I also served as president of Google Developer Groups on Campus at SKKU.
News
- Mar. 2026 I will be joining UC Irvine as an M.S. student in Computer Science this fall!
- Feb. 2026 Received my B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from SKKU.
- Dec. 2025 Our paper “MoltiTox: a multimodal fusion model for molecular toxicity prediction” has been published in Frontiers in Toxicology!
- Nov. 2025 Our team won First Place at 2025 Uni-DTHON, an AI hackathon on vision-language tasks! (Code)
- Oct. 2025 Featured in Sungkyunkwan University’s online magazine (SKKU Webzine).
- Sep. 2025 Honored to be named to Sungkyunkwan University’s 2025 President’s List!
- Aug. 2025 VisualVroom won the Grand Prize at ICT Award Korea 2025! (article)
- Feb. 2025 Started as an undergraduate researcher at the SKKU AI-Healthcare Lab.
Publications
Projects
Project SKKU Character
Oct. 2025 – Feb. 2026An AI platform where students create and share artwork of SKKU’s mascot from text prompts. I fine-tuned a FLUX image-generation model on mascot datasets and built the FastAPI backend serving generation requests, funded by the university entrepreneurship program.
NotiSKKU
Aug. 2024 – Nov. 2025A mobile app that gathers scattered campus announcements into a single view, motivated by a survey of 60+ students. I led a four-member team, designed the UI/UX in Figma, and built the app in Flutter on top of a Playwright crawler and Firebase. Launched on Google Play.
VisualVroom
Apr. 2025 – Aug. 2025A real-time auditory alert system for deaf drivers. We used a Vision Transformer on audio spectrograms to classify both the type (siren, horn) and direction of sounds at 83.9% accuracy, delivering haptic alerts through a smartwatch. In-car communication is supported by Google Speech-to-Text and a Gemini-powered speech-to-sign feature.