Wooyeol Jeong
I am a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST), advised by Prof. Taehwan Kim.
Previously, I received my M.S. degree from the Graduate SChool of Artificial Intelligence at Pohang University of Science and Techonology (POSTECH) under the supervision of Prof. Young-Joo Suh.
My research focuses on enabling human-like interaction through AI by developing natural and immersive human-AI interfaces.
In particular, I study multimodal interaction, including context-aware agents that integrate multiple modalities to understand user intent and generate appropriate responses.
My vision is to contribute to others' lives and make a positive impact on the world.
🔥 News
Aug, 2025
"Maestro-EVC: Controllable Emotional Voice Conversion Guided by References and Explicit Prosody" has been accepted to the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), 2025
May, 2025
"QR-VC: Leveraging Quantization Residuals for Linear Disentanglement in Zero-Shot Voice Conversion" has been published in the Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2025
Nov, 2024
"Speech Synthesis System Based on Speaker's Face Images" has been published in the Proceedings of the Korean Institutes of Information Technology (KIIT), 2024
Jul, 2023
"New U-Net for Image Deblurring Using Deep Learning" has been published in the Proceedings of the Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers (KIEE), Vol. 72, No. 7, 2023
🎧 Research Interests
My current research focuses on deep learning for speech processing.
Recently, I have been particularly interested in human-AI interaction systems based on multi-modal learning.
- Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs)
- Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs)
- Speech Synthesis
- Emotional Voice Conversion
📚 Publications
Maestro-EVC: Controllable Emotional Voice Conversion Guided by References and Explicit Prosody
🔗 Link
Jinsung Yoon*, Wooyeol Jeong*, Jio Gim, Young-Joo Suh (*: equal contribution)
To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2025
QR-VC: Leveraging Quantization Residuals for Linear Disentanglement in Zero-Shot Voice Conversion
🔗 Link
Youngjun Sim, Jinsung Yoon, Wooyeol Jeong , Young-Joo Suh
In Proceedings of the 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2025
Speech Synthesis System Based on Speaker's Face Images
🔗 Link
Wooyeol Jeong, Young-Joo Suh
In Proceedings of KIIT Conference, 2024
New U-Net for Image Deblurring Using Deep Learning
🔗 Link
Wooyeol Jeong*, Sungjoo Kim*, Changwoo Lee (*: equal contribution)
In Proceedings of KIEE, 2023
🏫 Education
UNIST, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Techonology
Ph.D. Student in The Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (Advisor: Taehwan Kim)
Mar 2026 – Present | Ulsan, South Korea
POSTECH, Pohang University of Science and Technology
M.S. Student in The Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (Advisor: Young-Joo Suh)
GPA: 4.15/4.3
Feb 2024 – Feb 2026 | Pohang, South Korea
The Catholic University of Korea
B.S. in Information, Communication & Electronic Engineering (Double Major in Computer Information Science Engineering)
GPA: 4.13/4.5 (Major GPA: 4.38/4.5)
Feb 2018 – Feb 2024 | Seoul, South Korea
🔬 Research Experiences
UNIST, IMML Lab
Graduate Student Researcher (Advisor: Taehwan Kim)
Feb 2026 – Present | Pohang, South Korea
Square One Company
Research Intern
Feb 2025 – Feb 2026 | Pohang, South Korea
POSTECH, AIoT Lab
Graduate Student Researcher (Advisor: Young-Joo Suh)
Feb 2024 – Feb 2026 | Pohang, South Korea
The Korea University, MAI Lab
Undergraduate Student Research Intership
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 | Seoul, South Korea
The Catholic University of Korea, Signal Processing Lab
Undergraduate Student Researcher (Advisor: Changwoo Lee)
Aug 2021 – Feb 2024 | Seoul, South Korea
🏆️ Awards
Academic Excellence Scholarship
Aug 2022 – Dec 2022
Encouragement Award
Korea Tourism Organization & Kakao's Tourism Data Utilization Contest
Apr 2022 – Oct 2022
Excellence Award
Student Academic Conference, The Catholic University of Korea
Sep 2022 – Nov 2022
Academic Excellence Scholarship
Mar 2023 – Jun 2023
Excellence Award
Capstone Design Competition, The Catholic University of Korea
Mar 2023 – Jun 2023
Best Paper Award
Academic Research, The Catholic University of Korea
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
Academic Research Excellence Award
Academic Research, The Catholic University of Korea
Mar 2023 – Oct 2023
🖥️ Projects
PhotoPlace
Korea Tourism Organization & Kakao's Tourism Data Utilization Contest
Apr 2022 – Oct 2022
Oder Complaint Automation System Using STT and NER
Government-funded project led by Pohang Techonopark
Aug 2024 – Feb 2025
💼 Patents
Image Deblurring Method Based on Deep Learning
KR 10-2744498-0000
Sep 2024
👨🏫 Teaching Experience
Research Participation (CSED399)
Robust Multi-speaker Speech Emotion Classification System
Aug 2025 – Dec 2025
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CSED105)
Teaching Assistant
Aug 2025 – Dec 2025
