Won Shik Jang

Won Shik Jang

Ph.D. Student · AI Graduate School, GIST

I am a Ph.D. Student at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), working in the Autonomous Computing System Lab (ACSL) advised by Prof. Ue-Hwan Kim. My research focuses on computer vision and embodied AI, with emphasis on visual navigation, and 3D scene understanding.

News

Publications

Context-Nav
Context-Nav: Context-Driven Exploration and Viewpoint-Aware 3D Spatial Reasoning for Instance Navigation
Won Shik Jang, Ue-Hwan Kim
CVPR 2026 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Education

2023 – Present

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Ph.D. in AI Graduate School · Advised by Prof. Ue-Hwan Kim

2017 – 2023

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

B.S. in Computer Science

Experience

Jul – Aug 2022

CJ OliveNetworks

MLOps Engineer Intern · Developed APIs for AI services platform

Dec 2021 – Feb 2022

WRTN

Frontend Developer Intern · Built collaborative documentation tools

Awards

2017 – 2022

National Excellence Scholarship (Science & Engineering)

Korea Scholarship Foundation (KOSAF)