Jaeyeon Kim

Hi everyone! I’m Jaeyeon Kim, a PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Professor Carlos Busso and Professor Shinji Watanabe. I also spent summer 2026 as a research intern at Microsoft Research, mentored by Dr. Hannes Gamper. Before joining CMU, I was a research intern at the Vision and Learning Lab at Seoul National University, advised by Professor Gunhee Kim.

I aim to build AI that perceives and reasons about the world through multiple modalities, bridging language and vision with auditory information. Specifically, I am interested in (1) advancing audio understanding and reasoning in large audio and omni-modal language models and (2) improving the comprehension and generation of audio(-visual) scenes, including spatial audio.