Principal investigator

Education & Training

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science), 2018 - 2019

• Ph.D., University of California - San Diego (Electrical and Computer Engineering), 2013 - 2018

• M.S., University of California - San Diego (Electrical and Computer Engineering), 2015

• B.S., Yonsei University (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) (The Highest Honor (Top 1%) @ graduation), 2007 - 2013

• Visiting Student, University of Washington - Seattle (Annual Dean's List), 2011 - 2012

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Chung-Ang University, 2025 - ongoing

• Assistant Professor, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 2019 - 2025

• Research Intern, Honda Research Institute - US, 2016

• Research Intern, HP Inc., 2015

Professional Activities

• Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ongoing

• Topical Advisory Panel Member, Electronics, 2021 - ongoing

• Topic Editor, Electronics, 2021 - 2021

• Outstanding Reviewer, BMVC, 2024

• Session Chair, IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing, 2023

Research Area

• Scene understanding

• Vision-language understanding

• Continual learning (lifelong learning, incremental learning)

• Weakly-supervised learning

• Person re-identification (re-ID)