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Wonjae Kim

Questioner · DISC type c
Lead Research Scientist at TwelveLabs
📍 Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Wonjae Kim is a Lead Research Scientist at TwelveLabs, specializing in multimodal foundation models for video understanding. A graduate of Seoul National University, his career includes impactful research roles at Naver AI Lab and Kakao. He authored ViLT, a foundational work in efficient vision-language architectures.

He is deeply engaged with the scientific community and finds being an outstanding reviewer for prestigious conferences as fulfilling as having his own work accepted. He also contemplates how AI agents will fundamentally change human writing styles, advocating for more verbose content to be created for machine readers.

An interesting fact is that he takes great pride in serving the academic community, enjoying the process of reading high-quality papers as a reviewer.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Lead Research Scientist
Job Level
Middle
Location
Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Personality Overview

How Wonjae shows up

Price-Sensitive
Not Easily Convinced
Value Seeker

They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point. While they don't hesitate to ask questions, they are generally risk-averse and tend to be late adopters. It is quite likely of them to ask for pricing or other concessions.

Priorities

Topics Wonjae cares about

Vision-Language Models
He is a key researcher in this field, authoring influential papers on probabilistic pre-training and shaping efficient vision-language architectures with his work on ViLT.
Multimodal AI
His current work at TwelveLabs involves building foundation models that understand video, audio, and text to perform true semantic understanding of video structure.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Lead Research Scientist
TwelveLabs
1-2023 - 2-2025
Research Scientist
네이버클라우드(NAVER Cloud)
4-2021 - 12-2022
Research Scientist
NAVER Corp
3-2021 - 4-2021
Research Scientist
카카오엔터프라이즈 (Kakao Enterprise)
2-2018 - 3-2021
Research Scientist
Kakao Corp
In the press

Media appearances

Why I Joined TwelveLabs. Featured in Twelve Labs Blog
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Education
2016 - 2018
Master of Science - MS
Seoul National University
2012 - 2016
Bachelor's degree
Seoul National University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

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