Lee DongWon

Hello! I’m an undergraduate researcher at the EMIL Lab, Kyung Hee University, advised by Professor Sungha Choi. My research focuses on building efficient algorithms and systems that make multimodal foundation models practical on real-world devices, even under tight memory, compute, and latency constraints.

Experience

Undergraduate Intern, Kyung Hee University
Jul. 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Efficient Multimodal Adaptation on Edge Devices

Software Engineer Internship, ROBROS
Dec. 2025 – Feb. 2026 · 3 mos

Integrated a camera streaming pipeline into the SDK to support humanoid locomotion.

Research Assistant, Kyung Hee University
Jul. 2025 – Dec. 2025 · 6 mos

Investigate the intersection of emotional factors and learning outcomes through a multidisciplinary approach, in collaboration with Dept. of Metaverse, fostering global academic partnerships.

Current Work

Multimodal KV Cache Quantization for Long-Video Understanding

– Present

Developing modality-aware KV cache quantization for long-video MLLMs, exploiting temporal redundancy across video tokens and distinct characteristics of visual and text KV caches. The goal is to enable memory-efficient long-video understanding while preserving model performance.

Paper Review & Presentation

Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free

Gated Attention Attention Sparsity Long-Context Modeling

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KV Cache Quantization

KV Cache Quantization Multimodal AI Long-Video Understanding

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TurboQuant: Online Vector Quantization with Near-Optimal Distortion Rate

KV Cache Quantization Vector Quantization Efficient Inference

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SnapKV: LLM Knows What You Are Looking for Before Generation

KV Cache Compression Query-Aware Token Selection Long-Context Inference

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Pretraining & Natural Language Generation

Foundation Models Pretraining Text Generation

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Attention

Efficient Attention KV Cache Long-Context Modeling

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