Academic Position
Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea, Mar 2022 - Current
Assistant Professor (Computer Engineering)
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School), Boston, MA, Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Research Fellow
Advisor: Dr. Berkin Bilgic
Education
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Justin P. Haldar
M.S. in Computer Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2014
M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering: Systems
M.S. in Mathematics
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, 2011
B.S. in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude)
Awards and Honors
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Editor’s pick (co-first author), August 2018 For the paper: “Improving parallel imaging by jointly reconstructing multicontrast data.”
Highlights interview: https://blog.ismrm.org/2018/08/31/qa-with-berkin-bilgic-and-kawin-setsompop/
Auidoslide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiIUZgp0FCk
20 most-read paper in 2017-2018 [certificate]
ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award (15% review score) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022 (first author)
ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award (3% review score) 2017, 2021 (co-author)
USC MHI Scholar 2019-2020 in ECE department
USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship (2yr full support + 2yr TA/RA guarantee) 2014-2018
KwanJeong Educational Scholarship (관정 해외유학 장학생) (full stipend support) 2014-2019
Educational Stipend, ISMRM Annual Meeting 2015, 2016, 2017
USC GSG Travel Grant 2015, 2018
USC Annenberg Graduate Travel Award 2017
Korea National Science and Technology Scholarship Fund 2005-2007, 2009-2011
First Prize in Undergraduate Research Participation (URP) Program at KAIST (highest prize) For the development of “Minimal 5-Button Keyboard”, 2007
Teaching
Hongik: Project I, Spring 2024
Hongik: AI/ML Project II, Fall 2023
Hongik: AI/ML Project I, Spring 2023
Hongik: Advanced Machine Learning (Undergrad / Grad), Spring 2023, Spring 2024
Hongik: Digital Media Processing (Grad), Spring 2024
Hongik: Video Image Processing, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
Hongik: C-Programming, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
Hongik: Introduction to Computer Engineering, Spring 2022
Hongik: Object-oriented Programming, Spring 2022
USC: EE 364 Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Teaching Assistant), Spring 2020
USC: EE 483 Digital Signal Processing (Teaching Assistant), Fall 2019
USC: EE 483 Digital Signal Processing (Teaching Assistant), Spring 2017
Work Experience
Siemens Healthineers (Research Internship), Princeton, NJ, May 2018 - Aug 2018