Building New Foundations
Toward Artificial General Intelligence

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Research

Generative AI

Designing deep generative models that synthesize, represent, and reason — the engine behind artificial general intelligence.

Deep generative models Representation learning Artificial general intelligence Foundation model Biomedical data science

Data-Centric AI

Confronting the messiness of real-world data — shifting distributions, multiple modalities, and the embodied demands of physical AI.

Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) Vision-Language Model (VLM) Vision-Language-Action Model (VLA) Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)

Projects

2025 — 2030

Scalable & Adaptive Multimodal AI for Artificial General Intelligence

범용 인공지능을 위한 초확장·초적응 멀티모달 인공지능
이화여자대학교 G-LAMP 사업단
Ministry of Education
2025 — 2030

Generative AI to Overcome Data Limitations in Real-World Biomedical Foundation Models

실세계 의생명 파운데이션 모델의 데이터 한계 문제 극복을 위한 생성형 인공지능 기반기술 개발
우수신진연구
NRF Korea
2026 — 2029

Development of Integrated Multimodal Embedding and Self-Correction Real-time Agentic AI for High-Reliability Corporate Disclosure Analysis

멀티모달 통합 임베딩 및 자가 검증형 실시간 에이전틱 AI 기반 고신뢰 기업 공시 데이터 분석 기술 개발
생성AI선도인재양성사업
IITP
2026 — 2028

Development of PET-based Generation and Validation Technology for Unstructured Time-Series Synthetic Data

PET 기술을 활용한 비정형 시계열 합성데이터 생성 및 검증기술 개발
개인정보안전활용선도기술개발
KISA
2025 — 2027

TRUE-AI: Trustworthy & Resource-efficient Unified Evolving AI

고신뢰 고효율 인공지능 교육연구단
4단계 BK21 사업
Ministry of Education
2026 — 2031

Development and Multicenter Validation of an AI-based Hearing Health Behavior Prediction and Intervention Platform to Promote Hearing Healthcare Service Utilization

청각 의료서비스 이용 촉진을 위한 AI 기반 청각건강 행동 예측·개입 플랫폼 개발 및 다기관 실증
기본연구B
NRF Korea
2024 — 2027

scClovaX: Single-Cell AI using a Foundational Model

파운데이션 모델을 이용한 단일세포 인공지능
디지털 바이오 연구과제
Naver
2025 — 2025Completed

Artificial Intelligence Graduate School Program (Ewha Womans University)

인공지능융합혁신인재양성사업 (이화여자대학교)
인공지능융합혁신인재양성사업
IITP
2024 — 2024Completed

Healthcare Software Development & Platform Construction

헬스케어 소프트웨어 개발 및 플랫폼 구축
지자체-대학 협력기반 지역혁신사업 (RIS)
Ministry of Education

People

Principal Investigator

Uiwon HwangUiwon Hwang (candid)
Uiwon Hwang, Ph.D.Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University
uiwon.hwang@ewha.ac.kr
Generative AIData-Centric AIArtificial General Intelligence

Researchers

Jaeho Hwang
Jaeho Hwang, Ph.D.Research Professor
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Ewha Womans University
hjaeho@ewha.ac.kr
Multimodal AIPDE

Graduate Students

Dohee Kim
Dohee KimIntegrated M.S. & Ph.D. Student
Division of Artificial Intelligence & Software, Ewha Womans University
kdh3022@ewha.ac.kr
Biomedical AI
Kyunghee Kim
Kyonghee KimIntegrated M.S. & Ph.D. Student
Division of Artificial Intelligence & Software, Ewha Womans University
kyungh22@ewha.ac.kr
Multimodal Deep Learning
Yujin Oh
Yujin OhIntegrated M.S. & Ph.D. Student
Division of Artificial Intelligence & Software, Ewha Womans University
yujinoh@ewha.ac.kr
Generative AIExplainable AI
Yeyoung Kim
Yeyoung KimIntegrated M.S. & Ph.D. Student
Division of Artificial Intelligence & Software, Ewha Womans University
yey030@ewha.ac.kr
Biomedical AIGenerative AI
Eunju Park
Eunju ParkIntegrated M.S. & Ph.D. Student
Division of Artificial Intelligence & Software, Ewha Womans University
pej0918@ewha.ac.kr
Multimodal LearningMultimodal HallucinationGenerative AI
Juhye Lee
Juhye LeeM.S. Student
Division of Artificial Intelligence & Software, Ewha Womans University
juheaven@ewha.ac.kr
Medical Neuro-Symbolic AIMultimodal RepresentationExplainable AIClinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)
Jeannie Chung
Jeannie ChungIntegrated M.S. & Ph.D. Student
Division of Artificial Intelligence & Software, Ewha Womans University
cjeannie@ewha.ac.kr
Multimodal LearningAI Reasoning
Kyoungsun Lee
Kyoungsun LeeIntegrated M.S. & Ph.D. Student
Division of Artificial Intelligence & Software, Ewha Womans University
lks2012@ewha.ac.kr
AGILLMGenerative AI
Gabin Yoon
Gabin YoonIntegrated M.S. & Ph.D. Student
Division of Artificial Intelligence & Software, Ewha Womans University
yoongabin21@ewha.ac.kr
LLMNLPGenerative AI

Undergraduate Students

Youngeun Seol
Youngeun SeolUndergraduate Student
jeyejong70@ewha.ac.kr
Multimodal AIGenerative AI

Publications

* Equal contribution  ·  † Corresponding author(s)

2027
Conference
CatchUp: Depth-Aware Re-Admission of Visual Tokens for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models
Eunju Park, Uiwon Hwang
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA, January 2027
paper
Conference
AdaGeneBudget: Cell-Adaptive Gene-Token Allocation for Efficient Single-Cell Foundation Models
Dohee Kim, Uiwon Hwang
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), Hawaii, USA, January 2027
paperpostercode
2026
Conference
Viyog: Separating Adversarial and Out-of-Distribution
Aman Singh, Abhinav Kumar, Rishab Kashyap, Soyeong Park, Ameya Gurjar, Yohan Ko, Hwisoo So, Uiwon Hwang, Kyoungwoo Lee, Aviral Shrivastava
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Codesign of Embedded Systems (CODES), Barcelona, Spain, October 2026
conference
Conference
Enhancing Alignment for Unified Multimodal Models via Semantically-Grounded Supervision
Jiyeong Kim, Yerim So, Hyesong Choi, Uiwon Hwang, Dongbo Min
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Malmö, Sweden, September 2026
papercodepage
Conference
Do Prefix Attractors Cause Hallucination in LVLMs?
Eunju Park*, Dohee Kim*, Uiwon Hwang
CVPR Workshop on Any-to-Any Multimodal Learning, Denver, CO, USA, June 2026
workshopposter
Journal
Predicting Olympic Medal Outcomes in 1,011 Elite Athletes Using Multimodal Machine Learning
Hyoungjoo Choi, Uiwon Hwang, Hyunchul Kim, Seonmi Park, Joshua (Sung) H. You
Scientific Reports, in press
papercode
arXiv
Domain Recentering and Confidence-Weighted Prior Calibration for Vision-Language Models
Youngeun Seol*, Jimin Shin*, Heeseo Yoon*, Uiwon Hwang
arXiv preprint, 2026
arXiv
arXiv
Quantum Tunneling-Aware Machine Learning: Physics-Derived Noise Models for Robust Deployment
Uiwon Hwang†, Jaeho Hwang
arXiv preprint, 2026
arXiv
arXiv
CLIP-RD: Relational Distillation for Efficient CLIP Knowledge Distillation
Jeannie Chung*, Hanna Jang*, Ingyeong Yang*, Uiwon Hwang†, Jaehyeong Sim†
arXiv preprint, 2026
arXiv
arXiv
STAG: Structural Test-time Alignment of Gradients for Online Adaptation
Juhyeon Shin, Yujin Oh, Jonghyun Lee, Saehyung Lee, Minjun Park, Dongjun Lee, Uiwon Hwang†, Sungroh Yoon†
arXiv preprint, 2026
arXiv
Domestic
Malignancy Prediction of Ovarian Tumors Using Multimodal Deep Learning Based on CT Images and Clinical Information
Mungyeong Kim, Seoyeon Ahn, Sunyoung Park, Yeyoung Kim, Uiwon Hwang
Korea Computer Congress (KCC), June 2026
conference
Domestic
Migrating Cross-Domain Spurious Correlations for Domain-Agnostic Triage Classification of Foot and Ankle X-ray Images
Jiho Park, Gayoung Kim, Seungyeon Han, Jee Won Chai, Uiwon Hwang
Korea Computer Congress (KCC), June 2026
conference
Domestic
Machine Learning Prediction of Cord Blood Banking Eligibility Using Delivery-Room Variables: A Single-Center Cohort Study of 37,645 Units
Jiho Park, Uiwon Hwang, Eun Youn Roh
The Korean Society for Patient Blood Management, May 2026
★ Outstanding Poster Award
conference
Patent
Apparatus and Method for Vision-Language Model Inference Using Reversible Visual Token Routing Based on Local Transition Correction
Uiwon Hwang, Eunju Park
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2026-0187294
Patent
Apparatus and Method for Online Clustering Using Semantic Competition-Based Deferred Assignment and Evidence-Based Structure Discovery
Uiwon Hwang, Kyonghee Kim
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2026-0187289
Patent
Classifier Geometry-Based Test-Time Adaptation Method and Apparatus
Uiwon Hwang, Jaeho Hwang, Yujin Oh, Juhye Lee
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2026-0182557
Patent
Error-Correcting Decoding Method and Apparatus for Certifying Optimality of Candidates in List-Based Decoding, and Receiver Including the Same
Uiwon Hwang, Jaeho Hwang, Byung-Sun Won
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2026-0180432
Patent
Apparatus and Method for Multi-Directional Relation-Based Knowledge Distillation of Vision-Language Models
Jaehyeong Sim, Uiwon Hwang, Ingyeong Yang, Hanna Jang, Jeannie Chung
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2026-0103636
2025
Conference
ProGIP: Protecting Gradient-based Input Perturbation Approaches for OOD Detection From Soft Errors
Sumedh Shridhar Joshi, Hwisoo So, Soyeong Park, Woobin Ko, Jinhyo Jung, Yohan Ko, Uiwon Hwang, Kyoungwoo Lee, Aviral Shrivastava
International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), Taipei, Taiwan, September 2025
paper
Domestic
A Comparative Study between QLoRA Fine-tuning and Instruction Design for Learning Code Editing Rules
Yujin Oh, Jiyoung Beom, Uiwon Hwang
Korea Software Congress (KSC), December 2025
paper
Domestic
Med-TENT: Overcoming Inter-Hospital Data Sharing Limitations and Improving Text-Based Electronic Health Record Disease Prediction via Source-Free Domain Adaptation
Jiyoon Jeon, Sunwoo Park, Seunghye Ryu, Uiwon Hwang
Korea Software Congress (KSC), December 2025
paper
Domestic
Unified Detection Method for Out-of-Distribution and Adversarial Attack
Soyeong Park, Yebon Kim, Hyunjun Kim, HyoJun Lee, Hwisoo So, Uiwon Hwang, Kyoungwoo Lee, Yohan Ko
Korea Computer Congress (KCC), July 2025
★ Outstanding Paper Presentation Award
paper
2024
Conference
Efficient Diffusion-Driven Corruption Editor for Test-Time Adaptation
Youngtak Oh*, Jonghyun Lee*, Jooyoung Choi, Dahuin Jung, Uiwon Hwang†, Sungroh Yoon†
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Milano, Italy, September 2024
papercode
Conference
SF(DA)²: Source-free Domain Adaptation Through the Lens of Data Augmentation
Uiwon Hwang, Jonghyun Lee, Juhyeon Shin, Sungroh Yoon
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Vienna, Austria, May 2024
papercode
Conference
Entropy is not Enough for Test-time Adaptation: From the Perspective of Disentangled Factors
Jonghyun Lee*, Dahuin Jung*, Saehyung Lee, Junsung Park, Juhyeon Shin, Uiwon Hwang†, Sungroh Yoon†
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Vienna, Austria, May 2024
★ Spotlight (Top 5%)
papercodepage
Journal
On Mitigating Stability-plasticity Dilemma in CLIP-guided Image Morphing via Geodesic Distillation Loss
Yeongtak Oh, Saehyung Lee, Uiwon Hwang†, Sungroh Yoon†
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), December 2024
paperarXivcode
Journal
Adversarial Defense on Harmony: Reverse Attack for Robust Models Against Adversarial Attacks
Yebon Kim, Jinhyo Jung, Hyunjun Kim, Hwisoo So, Yohan Ko, Aviral Shrivastava, Kyoungwoo Lee, Uiwon Hwang
IEEE Access, November 2024
paper
Domestic
Study on the Use of DWOpenPose for Distinguishing Between AI-Generated and Real Images
Sihoon Yeom, Yeyoung Kim, Seojin Lee, Uiwon Hwang
Conference of Korea Artificial-Intelligence Convergence Technology Society (KAICTS), November 2024
★ Outstanding Paper Award
Domestic
Trends in Medical Artificial Intelligence and Improvements in Insurance Systems
Yeyoung Kim, Uiwon Hwang
Korea Computer Congress (KCC), June 2024
paper
Domestic
A Trend of Source-free Domain Adaptation
Uiwon Hwang
Annual Symposium of KIPS (ASK), May 2024
paper
Domestic
Polyphonic Music Generation with Sequence Generative Adversarial Networks
Sang-gil Lee*, Uiwon Hwang*, Seonwoo Min, Sungroh Yoon
Journal of KIISE, January 2024
paperarXiv
Patent
Counterattack Apparatus and Method for Responding to Adversarial Attacks on Artificial Intelligence Model
Yohan Ko, Yebon Kim, Hyunjun Kim, Jinhyo Jung, Hwisoo So, Kyungwoo Lee, Uiwon Hwang, Aviral Shrivastava
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2024-0161875
Patent
Apparatus and Method for Detecting Out of Distribution Including Protection Against Soft Error
Yohan Ko, Aviral Shrivastava, Hwisoo So, Soyeong Park, Uiwon Hwang, Woobin Ko, Kyungwoo Lee, Jinhyo Jung
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2024-0161876
Patent
Method for Domain Adaptation, and Domain Adaptation Model
Uiwon Hwang, Sungroh Yoon, Jonghyun Lee, Juhyeon Shin
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2024-0103992
2023
Journal
Real-world Prediction of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease with a Deep Generative Model
Uiwon Hwang*, Sung-Woo Kim*, Dahuin Jung, SeungWook Kim, Hyejoo Lee, Sang Won Seo, Joon-Kyung Seong†, Sungroh Yoon†
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, October 2023
paper
Journal
Deep Learning-assisted Active Noise Control in a Time-varying Environment
Seonghun Im, Siwon Kim, Sunghwa Woo, Inman Jang, Taewoo Han, Uiwon Hwang, Won-Suk Ohm, Myunghan Lee
Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, February 2023
paper
Patent
Method and Apparatus for Training Unsupervised Conditional Generative Model
Sungroh Yoon, Uiwon Hwang, Heeseung Kim
US Patent Pending, Application No. 18204457
Patent
Method and Apparatus for Training Unsupervised Conditional Generative Model
Sungroh Yoon, Uiwon Hwang, Heeseung Kim
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2023-0060987
~2022
Conference
Membership Privacy-Preserving GAN
Heonseok Ha, Uiwon Hwang, Jaehee Jang, Ho Bae, Sungroh Yoon
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), London, UK, November 2022
paper
Conference
Prediction of Mortality and Intervention in COVID-19 Patients Using Generative Adversarial Networks
Uiwon Hwang, Euideuk Hwang, Minsoo Kang, Sungroh Yoon
ICML Workshop on Healthcare AI and COVID-19, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 2022
paper
Conference
Stein Latent Optimization for Generative Adversarial Networks
Uiwon Hwang, Heeseung Kim, Dahuin Jung, Hyemi Jang, Hyungyu Lee, Sungroh Yoon
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Virtual, April 2022
papercode
Conference
HexaGAN: Generative Adversarial Nets for Real World Classification
Uiwon Hwang, Dahuin Jung, Sungroh Yoon
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2019
papercode
Conference
Reinforcement Learning based Recommender System using Biclustering Technique
Sungwoon Choi, Heonseok Ha, Uiwon Hwang, Chanju Kim, Jung-Woo Ha, Sungroh Yoon
WSDM Workshop on Multi-dimensional Information Fusion for User Modeling and Personalization (IFUP), Los Angeles, USA, February 2018
paper
Journal
Learn2Evade: Learning-based Generative Model for Evading PDF Malware Classifiers
Ho Bae*, Younghan Lee*, Yohan Kim, Uiwon Hwang, Sungroh Yoon†, Yunheung Paek†
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, August 2021
paper
Journal
PuVAE: A Variational Autoencoder to Purify Adversarial Examples
Uiwon Hwang*, Jaewoo Park*, Hyemi Jang*, Sungroh Yoon†, Nam Ik Cho†
IEEE Access, September 2019
paper
Journal
How Generative Adversarial Networks and Their Variants Work: An Overview
Yongjun Hong, Uiwon Hwang, Jaeyoon Yoo, Sungroh Yoon
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), February 2019
paper
Domestic
The Link Between Adversarial Learning and Adversarial Robustness
Uiwon Hwang, Sungroh Yoon
Korea Software Congress (KSC), December 2020
paper
Domestic
A Trend of Generative Adversarial Networks for Electronic Health Records
Uiwon Hwang, Sungroh Yoon
Symposium of the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS), November 2018
paper
Domestic
Disease Prediction from Electronic Health Record Data Using Generative Adversarial Networks
Uiwon Hwang, Sungwoon Choi, Heonseok Ha, Sungroh Yoon
Korea Software Congress (KSC), December 2017
★ Outstanding Paper Presentation Award
paper
Domestic
Characteristic Analysis of Distributed Analysis Algorithms for Data Silos with Missing Data
Heonseok Ha, Uiwon Hwang, Sungwoon Choi, Sungroh Yoon
Winter Conference of Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), December 2016
paper
Patent
Method and Apparatus for Data Classification Based on Generative Model
Sungroh Yoon, Uiwon Hwang, Dahuin Jung
Korean Patent Pending, Application No. 10-2022-0068096

News

Oct 2026

Paper accepted at WACV 2027

One paper is accepted to the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2027.

Sep 2026

Paper accepted at PSB 2027

One paper is accepted to the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2027.

Apr 2026

Paper accepted at CVPR 2026 Workshop

One paper is accepted to the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Any-to-Any Multimodal Learning.

Mar 2025

AGILE Lab opened

The Artificial General Intelligence Laboratory (AGILE) officially opened at Ewha Womans University.

Come build general intelligence with us

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Contact

Emailuiwon.hwang@ewha.ac.kr (Adviser)
agile@ewha.ac.kr (Lab Manager)
Tel+82 (0)2 3277 2593
OfficeJinseonmi-Gwan (진선미관),
Room 335
LabAsan Engineering Building (아산공학관),
Room 331
Address52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu,
Seoul 03760, Republic of Korea