Seo Eun Cha is a fourth-year student in the Division of Information Science in Cultural Intelligence at Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, where she is pursuing a B.S. degree in Statistics and Information Science. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision. Since July 2026, she has been a participant in the UNIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (U-SURF) program at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea. She intends to pursue graduate studies in artificial intelligence and computer vision and continue her career in academic research.

Research Outcome:

1. (SCIE) "Facial Emotion Recognition via Fusion of Deep and Handcrafted Features," Sensors, vol. 26, no. 14, Jul. 2026, Art. no. 4522.

Last Updated Date: July 16, 2026

Jiwon Park received the B.S. degree in HCI Science from Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, in August 2026. Since July 2026, she has been a participant in the fourth cohort of the SK AI Leader Academy (SKALA), an AI talent development and employment-linked program operated by SK Group. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision.

Research Outcome:

1. (T.B.D.) "Facial Emotion Recognition by Fusing CNN-Based Visual Features with Triangle-Based Facial Geometry," Sensors, Major Revision. [Code]

Last Updated Date: August 10, 2026

Songhyun Chu received the B.S. degree in Data Science from Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, in August 2026. She is currently pursuing the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the AI Security LAB at Yonsei University, Seoul. Her research interests include artificial intelligence and computer vision.

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Research Outcomes:

1. (KCI) "Facial Emotion Recognition Using Geometric and HOG Features," Journal of Korea Multimedia Society, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 112-125, Jan. 2025.

2. (SCIE) "Data Augmentation with Centroid-Based Filtering and Undersampling for Robust Facial Emotion Recognition," Sensors, Submitted. [Code]

Last Updated Date: September 22, 2026

Heesun Jo received the B.S. degree in Data Science from Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, in February 2026. She is currently pursuing the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AutoAI) Lab at Korea University, Seoul. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, and natural language processing.

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Research Outcomes:

1. (KCI) "Facial Emotion Recognition Using Canny Edge Detection Operator and Histogram of Oriented Gradients," Journal of Multimedia Information System, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-12, Mar. 2025.

2. (T.B.D) "Enhancing Facial Emotion Recognition through Multi-Source CNN Ensembles," in Proc. 18th Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Hanoi, Vietnam, 9-12, Nov. 2026, accepted. [Code]

Last Updated Date: July 31, 2026

Hyora Lee received the B.S. degree in Taxation and Accounting from Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, in February 2025. From March 2018 to September 2022, she worked in the office at Samsung Life Insurance, Seoul. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, healthcare, and computer vision. She is currently pursing the M.S. degree in the Medical AI Research in SMC (MARS), Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul.

Research Outcome:

1. (KCI) "Facial Emotion Recognition in Children Using Convolutional Neural Network with Data Augmentation," Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 21-31, Feb. 2025.

Last Updated Date: February 20, 2026