Huichan Seo

Research Associate I; Summer Intern & Remote Collaborator

Pittsburgh, PA · Advisor: Prof. Jean Oh

• Built high-quality cultural dataset for bias mitigation: automated data pipeline for large-scale crawling; global peer-review platform. (View: WorldCCUB)
• Led multi-country evaluation of cultural bias in image generation; designed cultural evaluation metrics. (GitHub: ECB)
• Developed model-agnostic adapter and agent for cultural bias correction in generative image models. (GitHub: WorldCCUB Agent)
• Open-sourced SD3.5 LoRA fine-tuning implementation, widely adopted as community reference. (GitHub: SD3.5 LoRA)

Exposing Blindspots: Cultural Bias Evaluation in Generative Image ModelsAccepted

Huichan Seo*, Sieun Choi*, Minki Hong*, Yi Zhou, Junseo Kim, Lukman Ismaila, Naome Etori, Mehul Agarwal, Zhixuan Liu, Jihie Kim, Jean Oh

IASEAI 2026 (Poster + Oral)

Evaluating Demographic Misrepresentation in Image-to-Image Portrait EditingUnder Review

Huichan Seo*, Minki Hong*, Sieun Choi*, Jihie Kim, Jean Oh

Under review, 2026

Enhancing Recommendation System Performance with Graph-RAG: Analysis Using Travel and POI Datasets

Huichan Seo*, Se-hoon Kim*, Ik-Bum Park*, Youn-Soon Shin

Korean Institute of Information Technology, Nov 2024

WorldCCUB Agent: Model-Agnostic Cultural Bias Correction in Generative Models

Huichan Seo*, Jean Oh

Manuscript in preparation

Founder, Independent Developer

• Built a photo booth platform; achieved #3 in Camera category, 40K+ downloads, 300K+ photos, 300+ B2B clients.

Co-founder, CTO

• Led development of medication management platform; built global drug database; Korea's Top 100 Startups 2025, CES 2025.

Webmaster, Organizer

Built event site reaching 78+ countries with global research lab submissions.

Founder, Leader

Founded national IT coalition (67 universities); organized 10+ hackathons with Kakao, Figma sponsorship.

Founder, Leader

Founded first GDSC chapter; 2023–2024 Outstanding Korea Leader by Google; led 30+ events.