Byeongju Woo
Research Officer
Agency for Defense Development
Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Last updated: February 13, 2026
I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Stella Yu, starting Fall 2026.
I am currently serving as a First Lieutenant in the Republic of Korea Air Force and working as a research officer at the Agency for Defense Development, the Korean counterpart to the U.S. DARPA. Previously, I completed my bachelor's degree (Summa Cum Laude) in Computer Science and Engineering at POSTECH.
Research Interests
My research interests lie in computer vision and deep learning, with a particular focus on developing systems that emulate human cognitive processes. I aim to create machines that perceive not merely to recognize, but to truly comprehend the physical world. Accordingly, I am currently focusing on the following topics, among others:
Grounded visual understanding
Structured visual priors
Robust generalization
Context-aware representation
Publications
Experience
First Lieutenant
Mar 2023 – Present- Selected as one of 20 research officers nationwide dedicated to science-and-technology R&D for national defense
Research Officer for National Defense
Mar 2023 – PresentAgency for Defense Development (ADD)
Manager: Dr. Eunjin Koh/Advisor: Dr. Hoseong Kim
- Investigated and improved domain generalization for reliable infrared imagery object detection in data-scarce settings (1 publication in ECCV 2024).
Education
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
B.S. in Computer Science and EngineeringMar 2019 – Feb 2023