Dr. Seokwon Yeom (염석원)(廉錫沅)

Also known as 'Seok-Won' or 'Sekwon'

School of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Convergence, AI Department at Daegu University

(대구대학교, ICT융합학부, 인공지능전공)

Short Bio.

Seokwon (Seok-Won, Sekwon) Yeom has been a faculty member of Daegu University since 2007. He is now a full professor of the same university, School of ICT Convergence. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2006.

His research interests are intelligent processing of image and optical information, machine learning, and target tracking. He has researched on multiple target tracking for the airborne early warning (AEW) system, three-dimensional image processing with digital holography and integral imaging, photon-counting linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and photon-counting nonlinear matched filter, millimeter wave (MMW) and infrared (IR) image analysis, and aerial surveillance and search and rescue (SAR) mission with a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

He has been a guest editor of Applied Sciences since 2019. He has served as a board member of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems since 2016, and a member of the board of directors of the Korean Institute of Convergence Signal Processing since 2014. He was a program chair of the ICCCS2015, ISIS2017, iFUZZY2018, and ICCCS2019. He was a vice director of the AI homecare center at Daegu University in 2020, a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland in 2014, and a director of the Gyeongbuk techno-park specialization center in 2013.