Hong Jeon

Hong Jeon

I'm a Software Engineer at Waymo working on synthetic simulations. Previously, I was at Google and Meta and have explored my own startups as well. I studied CS at Cornell. I currently live in NYC. Find me on X!

Publications & Projects

SceneDiffuser++
SceneDiffuser++: City-Scale Traffic Simulation via a Generative World Model
Shuhan Tan, John Lambert, Hong Jeon, Sakshum Kulshrestha, Yijing Bai, Jing Luo, Dragomir Anguelov, Mingxing Tan, Chiyu Max Jiang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
SceneDiffuser: Efficient and Controllable Driving Simulation Initialization and Rollout
[Paper]
Chiyu Max Jiang, Yijing Bai, Andre Cornman, Christopher Davis, Xiukun Huang, Hong Jeon, Sakshum Kulshrestha, John Lambert, Shuangyu Li, Xuanyu Zhou, Carlos Fuertes, Chang Yuan, Mingxing Tan, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
Text-to-Image Model Adaptation
Adapting Text-to-Image Models for Video Generation Using Few Shot Learning
Samir Agarwala, Hong Jeon, Jared Watrous
[Paper][Poster]
Semantic Similarity Research
Exploring the Effect of Semantic Similarity on Model Generalization
Hong Jeon, Dustin Zubke
[Paper][Poster]
Simulation City
Simulation City

Procedurally generating synthetic simulations for self-driving cars. I work on training generative models to solve the long-tail scene generation problem.

Superscore
Superscore

Game for high schoolers to study the ACT standardized test. Offering a free online alternative to test prep tutors.

ChatJump

ChatJump

Game for Twitch streamers to engage with their viewers by playing the game together. Won 1st place at On Deck Foundry Weekend Hackathon 2021.

Velocity Training
Velocity Training

AI generated pose tracking and form feedback for doing squats. I started this project with a friend and eventually we turned it into a boostrapped startup.