Yoonjin Chung

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I am a first-year PhD student in Music Technology at New York University, advised by Prof. Juan Pablo Bello. I received my M.S. from the Graduate School of AI at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), advised by Prof. Juhan Nam, and my B.S. in Computer Science from Korea University. My research interest focuses on controllable audio/music generation and on the evaluation of generative models.

Outside of research, I recharge by going on long walks with no particular destination, lying in the park doing absolutely nothing, and collecting hobbies faster than I can keep up with them. Music 🎧 is always playing somewhere in the background, which probably explains how I ended up studying it.

News

Feb 28, 2026 Excited to share that I have been accepted to the PhD program in Music Technology at New York University! I will join this Fall 2026 and start my degree in the MARL lab.

Selected Publications

  1. ICML-W
    KAD: No More FAD! An Effective and Efficient Evaluation Metric for Audio Generation
    Yoonjin Chung, Pilsun Eu, Junwon Lee, Keunwoo Choi, Juhan Nam, and Ben Sangbae Chon
    In AI Heard That! Workshop at ICML 2025, 2025
  2. ICASSP
    T-FOLEY: A Controllable Waveform-Domain Diffusion Model for Temporal-Event-Guided Foley Sound Synthesis
    Yoonjin Chung, Junwon Lee, and Juhan Nam
    In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024