CV
Academic CV · Updated November 11, 2026
Contact Information
| Name | Jaehoon Hahm |
| Professional Title | Physics Ph.D. Candidate @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| jh141@illinois.edu | |
| Website | https://jaehoon-hahm.github.io/ |
Work Experience
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2026 - 2027 Burlingame, CA
Research Scientist Intern
Meta Reality Labs
- Working with Jogendra N. Kundu on self-distillation, self-supervised learning, and representation learning for AR/VR devices.
- VFMDistill explores eye tracking with zero or few target-device examples.
Education
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2024 - 2028 Urbana, IL
Ph.D. candidate in Physics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Physics
- Expected December 2028; advisor Bryan K. Clark.
- Research in ML + quantum many-body physics, neural quantum states, and quantum Monte Carlo.
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2022 - 2024 Seoul, South Korea
M.S. in Data Science
Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University
Data Science
- Advisor Joonseok Lee.
- Thesis: Isometric Representation Learning for Disentangled Latent Space of Diffusion Models.
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2016 - 2022 Seoul, South Korea
B.S. in Physics, minor in Mathematics
Seoul National University
Physics, minor in Mathematics
- Thesis: Improvement in Variational Quantum Algorithms by Measurement Simplification.
- Mandatory military service: Republic of Korea Army, July 2019–February 2021.
Patent
- SummDiff: Generative Modeling of Video Summarization with Diffusion. Korea Patent, 2025.
Teaching and Service
- Teaching Assistant, UIUC PHYS 212: University Physics, Electricity and Magnetism (2025).
- Teaching Assistant, UIUC PHYS 435: Electromagnetic Fields I (2024).
- Teaching Assistant, SNU Principles and Applications of Data Science (2023).
- Conference reviewer: NeurIPS 2026 and ICLR 2027.
Skills
Programming: Python, C, C++, Java, MATLAB, Mathematica
Machine Learning: PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, NumPy
Quantum Computing: Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane, TensorFlow Quantum
Languages
Korean : Native
English : Professional