EVP, Head of AI R&D Center at Smilegate
Career Summary
Head of AI strategy and technology
Establishing vision and mission of artificial intelligence for group companies
Identifying and leading next-steps of artificial intelligence including human-like AI, AI with emotion and memory, personalized AI and digital humans
Organizing collaborative teams of multiple AI companies and universities towards the better business opportunities
Leading overall branding and recruiting strategies specialized for AI fields
Director and team-builder having strong technical backgrounds
Directing experiences of large team who have diverse technical fields including system design, Web front-end & back-end, Android & iOS, UI/UX design, AI research and cloud system
Multiple experiences of building fully working team from zero ground for achieving various given missions
Deep understanding of various technical fields including AI, big data, multimedia, middleware and applications
End-to-end experiences of researching, developing and launching AI services and platforms
Design, implementation and deployment of AI service platforms which have the latest technologies including natural language understanding, computer vision, speech recognition, text-to-speech and generative models
Research and development of large-scale media understanding systems for cloud-based media services
Research and development of contents-based shopping image search and face recognition
World leading expert on video analysis and coding
One of the key technical founders of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) / H.265 standard
MPEG Editor of HEVC/H.265 standard specification
Project leader of the best performing proposal (A124 and A125) of Call-for-Proposal on Video Coding Technology for HEVC/H.265 standard.
Full experience of international standardization
Expert of the whole standardization process - development of the technology, preparation of the contribution and efforts for the adoption into the standards
Leader of standardization activity of HEVC/H.265 and H.264 SVC for Samsung Electronics
Patents and papers
International articles and standardization proposals cited more than 14900+ times (h-index 46)
100+ granted US patents and 40+ granted US patents among them were approved for the MPEG-LA patent pool
Reviewer of major publications including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Image Communication, ICIP and VCIP