Yoonjin Chung (Kaya)

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I am an incoming PhD student in Music Technology at New York University, starting Fall 2026, advised by Prof. Juan Pablo Bello. I received my M.S. from the Graduate School of AI at KAIST, advised by Prof. Juhan Nam, and my B.S. in Computer Science from Korea University. My research interests lie in audio generation, sound event detection, and music information retrieval.

Outside of research, I recharge by hiking, traveling, and doing yoga, basically anything that gets me away from a screen and into nature. Music is always in the background, which explains why I ended up studying it.

News

Mar 02, 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
    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
    arXiv Code
  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
    arXiv Code Demo