Youngrae Kim

About

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo and Prof. Peter Beerel. This summer, I am a Student Researcher at Google in Cambridge, MA.

Research Interests

I work broadly on video generation, world models, and 3D visual perception. I am particularly interested in building systems that can synthesize long-form, temporally coherent video grounded in a deep understanding of the 3D world. I am also interested in video understanding and multimodal LLMs. Currently, I am working on novel view synthesis at Google.

Experience

Google

Student Researcher

2026 – Present

USC

Ph.D. Student

2024 – Present

KAIST

M.S. Student

2022 – 2024

News

2026

Jun. MemRoPE accepted to ECCV 2026.
May EVIDENT preprint on cross-domain video temporal grounding released.
May Gave an invited talk "Toward Infinite Video Generation" at eBay. Talk
May Joined Google as a Student Researcher (PhD intern) in Cambridge, MA.
Apr. Two papers accepted to ICMLW 2026 (Rethinking Layer Redundancy; Beyond the Mean).
Mar. SlotVTG accepted to CVPRW 2026.
Feb. Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at IPIU 2026. ★ Award
Feb. MemRoPE preprint on training-free infinite video generation released.

2025

Dec. Perturbation-Aware Training preprint released.
Oct. FATA accepted to WACV 2025.

2024

Aug. Started Ph.D. at USC.
Aug. BESTTA accepted to ECCVW 2024 (Vision-Centric Autonomous Driving).
Jul. DEVIAS accepted to ECCV 2024 as an Oral presentation (2.3% acceptance rate). ★ Oral
Jul. MetaWeather accepted to ECCV 2024.
Jun. Best Paper Award at Korea Computer Congress. ★ Award