Biography

I am an Associate Professor in Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (GSAI) / Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) / Medical Science and Engineering (MSE) at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Prior to joining POSTECH, I was an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (2018 – 2023, last 2 years on leave-of-absence), and I was a Researcher in Data Science Team at NEC Labs., America (2017-2018). I obtained my Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2017 thanks to great support from Prof. Vikas Singh (advisor). I got a M.S. in Robotics from KAIST (2010) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University (2008), and I developed Hybrid Vehicles at Hyundai Motors Company in 2010-2011.

You can find my Curriculum Vitae here.

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017
• M.S. in Robotics, KAIST, 2010
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 2008

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, POSTECH, South Korea, 2023 -
• Assistant Professor, POSTECH, South Korea, 2020 - 2023
  • Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (GSAI)
  • Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
  • Medical Science and Engineering (MED)
• Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2024
  • Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
• Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, TX, U.S.A., 2018 - 2023
  • Computer Science and Engineering
• Researcher, NEC Labs., America, NJ, U.S.A., 2017 - 2018
  • Data Science Team
• Research Engineer, Hyundai Motors Company, South Korea, 2010 - 2011
  • Hybrid System Test Team

Honors

• Outstanding Paper Award (Bronze), IPIU, 2024
• Samsung Humantech Paper Award (Bronze), Samsung 2023
• 3 Outstanding Paper Awards (Silver, Bronze, Encouragement), IPIU, 2023
• NSF CISE CAREER Workshop Travel Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2019
• Rising STARs Award, University of Texas System [$250,000], 2017
• Doctoral Consortium Travel Award, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016
• Student Travel Award, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2013
• Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) Scholarship, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2012
• National Fellowship, S. Korea, 2008 - 2010
• Finalist for Best Paper in Biomimetics, International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2009
• Merit Based Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University, 2002, 2003, 2005
• Third Place in 12th Grade, Utah Math Contest, 2001

Service

• Editor, ICT Express
• I routinely serve as a reviewer for MICCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, WACV, ACCV and others.

Teaching

• Signal Processing (CSED490F), Deep Learning (CSED/AIGS538), Data Mining (CSED/AIGS526)