Smilegate (Jun. 2019 - Present)
EVP, Head of AI R&D Center and Backend Service Platform
Designing AI vision and mission tailored to the core competencies of Smilegate
Establishment of AI strategy and action plans that fits the vision and mission of the group
Leading AI strategies for developing AI technologies and prototyping relevant services from collective efforts including in house R &D, outsourcing and global collaboration
Leading research on next-generation AI technologies such as AI similar to humans, capable of artificial emotion and memory
Leading development of back-end service platform which consists of various micro-services including AI function
Netmarble IGS (Oct. 2017 - Jun. 2019)
Chief Technology Officer and Director of R&D Center
Building and harmonizing 70+ people who have various fields including Web front-end, back-end, Android, iOS, UX/UI design, project managing and AI researching
Leading development of autonomous service platform s for customer satisfaction (CS), quality assurance and community management (CM)
Leading development of business insghts and marketing platform from large scale customer reactions based on big data analysis
NHN Entertainment, Toast R&D Lab (Mar. 2016 - Oct. 2017)
Senior Lead
Research on large-scale media recognition system for smart VOD platform
Research on contents-based media search engine based on image understanding and facial recognition
Research on fast matching algorithm for neural embedding vectors
Research on efficient neural network architecture design
Gachon University, Dept. of Software Design and Management (Sep. 2011 - Feb. 2016)
Assistant Professor
Research on next-generation video compression based on deep learning
Professional consulting activities for Qualcomm, Dolby, Samsung and ETRI
International standardization activities of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG
Collaborative project experiences with various major companies
Samsung Electronics, DMC R&D Center (Apr. 2003 - Aug. 2011)
Principal Engineer (2009-2011) and Senior Engineer (2003-2008)
MPEG-H/H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) and H.264/AVC Scalable Video Coding (SVC) standardization on behalf of Samsung Electronics
Technical leader of next-generation video coding projects in Samsung Electronics
Experiences on various multimedia technologies including audio/video streaming system and multimedia framework for multiple platforms
SL2 Inc., R&D Center (Feb. 2002 - Mar. 2003)
R&D Director
Large-scale continuous speech recognition system for telephony applications
Embedded speech recognition system for telematics consoles / mobile phone
Multilingual speech recognition system and automatic dial forwarding system for BBB projects of 2002 Korea/Japan Worldcup