Won Hwa Kim

Won Hwa Kim

Associate Professor in CSE/GSAI/MED

I am an Associate Professor in Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (GSAI) / Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) / Medical Science and Engineering (MED) at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and I run Medical Information Processing (MIP) Lab at POSTECH. My research is focused on interdisciplinary topics in Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Medical Imaging. I am particularily interested in applied harmonic analysis in non-Euclidean spaces (e.g., signal processing on graphs) and stochastic process (e.g., longitudinal analysis) to develop efficient Deep Learning frameworks to facilitate understanding of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and brain function.

Contact

  • Email: wonhwa at postech dot ac dot kr
  • Office: #4412, RIST Research Building IV, 67 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea

Notes for Prospective Students

I am always looking for highly self-motivated students with long term goals.

  • I usually take 1-2 students per semester.
  • I can freely hire students from both Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (GSAI) and Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). Hiring students from Medical Science and Engineering (MED) will depend on the funding situation.
  • If you are already at POSTECH and want to work on independent research (CSED 399/499), please email me directly. I usually advise 2-3 undergraduate students per semester.
  • I do not hire research interns. Please email me if you have questions regarding our group.

Recent News

  • Oct, 2024. Our Lab was nomminated as top-10 Healty Laboratory (out of 129 labs) in POSTECH by POSTECH Human Right Center and received Encouragement Award (장려상).
  • Oct, 2024. Hyeonmin Kim, an undergraduate researcher in our group, was ranked 1 in two tasks in Ultra-Widefield Fundus Imaging for Diabetic Retinopathy Challenge (UWF4DR) at MICCAI 2024. Nice work done!
  • Sep, 2024. 1 paper accepted to ACCV. I was fortunate to collaborate with VUNO on this project.
  • Aug, 2024. My student Hyuna Cho is awarded with Google PhD Fellowship. Huuuuuuge congratulation!
  • Jun, 2024. Total of 6 papers (5 main and 1 workshop papers) accepted to MICCAI 2024. Congrats to the authors and looking forward to visiting Morocco!
  • May, 2024. 1 paper published at Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) in collaboration with UNC Chapel Hill. [IF: 10.9]
  • May, 2024. 3 papers provisionally accepted to MICCAI 2024 from our group (top ~11%)! Wait for more acceptances after the rebuttal.
  • May, 2024. 2 papers accepted to ICML 2024. Congrats to all the authors!
  • Apr, 2024. Seunghun and Jaeyoon’s ISBI paper has been selected for Oral Presentation (top ~14%).
  • Feb, 2024. Professor Ilwoo Lyu and his students joined the lab, and our lab is now named as `Medical Information Processing (MIP)’ Lab (previously Medical Imaging and Vision (MIV) Lab).
  • Feb, 2024. 1 paper accepted to ISBI. Congratulation to Seunghun and Jaeyoon!
  • Feb, 2024. Papers by Jaeyoon (AAAI 2024) and Hyuna (MICCAI 2023) have been honored with the Excellence Award (우수상) from Outstanding Papers from BK21 Graduate Students. Congrats!
  • Feb, 2024. Hyuna won Bronze Award from POSTECH Outstanding Research Contest. Congrats!
  • Feb, 2024. Jaeyoon won Outstanding Paper Award (Bronze) from IPIU 2024. Congrats!
  • Jan, 2024. We will be presenting 2 abstracts at OHBM in June. The conference will be held at COEX in South Korea.
  • Jan, 2024. 1 paper accepted to ICLR 2024 for event prediction. Congrats to Yujee!
  • Jan, 2024. 1 paper accepted to Biomedical Signal Processing and Control in collaboration with Dr. Ryu at Aju University.
  • Jan, 2024. I am visiting University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill during my sabbatical until Aug, 2024.
  • Dec, 2023. 1 paper accepted to AAAI. Congratulation to Jaeyoon!
  • Nov, 2023. I moved to a new office. Please find me at #4412 RIST Building IV.
  • Sep, 2023. 2 papers accepted to NeurIPS. Congratulation to Hyuna (POSTECH) and Tingting (UNC)!
  • Aug, 2023. 1 paper accepted to TMI in collaboration with UNC Chapel Hill.
  • Aug, 2023. 1 paper accepted to WACV 2024 in the first round. Congrats Hyuna!
  • Aug, 2023. Hyuna’s paper ‘Mixing Temporal Graphs with MLP for Longitudinal Brain Connectome Analysis‘ has been selected for Oral Presentation at MICCAI 2023 (top ~3%).
  • Jun, 2023. Total of 7 papers accepted to MICCAI 2023 from our group. Congrats to all the authors!
  • May, 2023. 2 papers from our group provisionally accepted to MICCAI 2023 (top ~14%), and more to come!
  • Apr, 2023. 1 paper accepted to ICML 2023 in collaboration with researchers at ETRI.
  • Mar, 2023. We have a paper on Wishart Process accepted to Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (CSDA) (~10% acceptance rate). Congrats to Rui and Fan!
  • Feb, 2023. 1 paper accepted to CVPR 2023 in collaboration with Dr. Cho at POSTECH.
  • Feb, 2023. Our group won 3 outstanding paper awards (1 은상, 1 동상, 1 장려상) from IPIU. Congrats to Hyuna, Jieun and all the co-authors!
  • Jan, 2023. 1 paper accepted to IPMI 2023 in collaboration with Guorong Wu at UNC Chapel Hill.
  • Jan, 2023. Hyuna and Yubin won Bronze Prize from Samsung HumanTech Paper Award! (with large $$$ prize)
  • Jan, 2023. 1 paper accepted to ISBI 2023. Congrats to Seunghun and have fun in Columbia!
  • Sep, 2022. Our research will be funded by NRF 중견연구과제 for the next 4 years for developing graph neural networks for brain connectivity analysis.
  • Jun, 2022. 2 papers accepted to MICCAI 2022. Congrats Injun (POSTECH) and Tingting (UNC)!
  • May, 2022. Hyuna Cho won the POSTECHIAN Fellowship. Congratulation!
  • Apr, 2022. (Pre) Ph.D Fan successfully defended! She will join Genentech as a Researcher.
  • Apr, 2022. 1 paper accepted to IJCAI. Congrats to Xin.
  • Apr, 2022. We moved to a new lab! Our lab is now named as Medical Imaging and Vision (MIV) lab.
  • Jan, 2022. 1 paper accepted to ISBI 2022. Congrats Fan!
  • Jun, 2021. 2 papers accepted to MICCAI 2021. Congrats to Hyuna (POSTECH) and Fan (UTA)!
  • Mar, 2021. Our proposal to NIH R03 is finally funded, a joint work with UNC (Guorong Wu).
  • Jan, 2021. Our work on Learning multi-resolution representation of graph edges is accepted to IPMI 2021. Congrats Xin!
  • Dec, 2020. I joined POSTECH. I am starting Artificial Intellligence and Medical Imaging (AIMI) Lab.
  • Aug, 2020. My proposal to NSF CRII (known as “mini CAREER”) is awarded.
  • Aug, 2020: Our proposal funded by NSF Core program, a joint work between UTA (Gautam Das and I) and NJIT (Senjuti B. Roy).
  • Jun, 2020. We have a paper accepted to Brain Connectivity in collaboration with UT Southwestern.
  • July, 2020. We have a paper accepted to TPAMI in collaboration with UW-Madison.
  • May, 2020. We have a paper accepted to MICCAI 2020. Congrats Fan!
  • Jan, 2020. We have a paper accepted to ISBI 2020 for Oral Presentation. Congrats Xin!
  • Jul, 2019. 1 paper accepted to ICCV 2019 in collaboration with UW-Madison.
  • Oct, 2018. My paper accepted to NeuroImage: Clinical.
  • Aug, 2018. Our proposal with Georgia Tech to C-TEDD is funded by US Department of Transportation (DOT).
  • Jan, 2018. I joined Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington as an Assistant Professor.
  • Sep, 2017. I joined Data Science Team at NEC Labs., America as a Researcher.
  • May, 2017. I became a Ph.D.