Working Experience & Education

2022–Present   : Assistant Professor, Dept. Computer Science, Chungbuk National University

2025–Present   : Adjunct Professor, Dept. Convergence Software, Chungbuk National University

2025–Present   : CTO, injewelme PTE. LTD, Singapore

2021–2022        : Research Professor, AI Research Center, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University

2019                  : Visiting Scholar, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

2015–2021        : Integrated M.S.&Ph.D., Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea  University

                            (Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning Lab. | Supervisor: Prof. Seong-Whan Lee (이성환))

                             Dissertation:  Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm Based on Deep Neurokinematics Learning for Collaboration with Human

2009–2015       : B.S., Dept. of Computer Science & Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Interdisciplinary major), Korea University

Research Interests

Machine Intelligence

• • • Medical AI

    • Multimodal Learning

Neural Computing

• • • Brain-Computer Interface

    • Digital Healthcare

Professional Service
Honors:

• IEEE Associate Member, IEEE Society

• BCI Society Member, The Brain-Computer Interface Society

• IEEE EMBS Member, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

• IEEE SPS Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society

• IEEE SMC Member, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

• Board Member, Brain Engineering Society of Korea (한국뇌공학회), 홍보이사

• Board Member, Korea Brain Education Society (한국뇌교육학회), 기획이사

• Board Member, The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering (대한의용생체공학회), 뇌공학분과 학술위원

• Board Member, Korean Society of EEG & Neurophysiology (대한뇌파신경생리학회), 학술위원

• Board Member, Research Institute for Computer and Information Communication in CBNU, 학술부장

• Member, Korean Artificial Intelligence Association (한국인공지능학회)

• Member, Korea Information Processing Society (한국정보처리학회)

• Committee Member, 충북대학교 동물의료ICT 융합인재양성센터 총괄운영위원회

Editors & Committees:

• Editoral Board Member in Scientific Reports

• Associate Editor in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Section: Brain-Computer Interface)

• Review Editor in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Section: Motor Neuroscience, Brain-Computer Interface)

• Editor-in-Chief in Journal of Research Institute for Computer and Information Communication

• Track Chair in The 41th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC '26)

• Program Committee in The 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '25)

• Publication Chair in The 13th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (WBCI '25)

• Program Committee in The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC '25)

• Program Committee in The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM '24)

• Track Committee in The 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC '24)

• Local Arrangement Chair in The 12th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (WBCI '24)

• Program Committee in The 15th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA '23)

• Program Committee in The 17th KIPS International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies &Applications (CUTE '23)

• Technical Program Committee in 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Human-Computer Interaction (ISHCI '23)

• Committee Member in The 11th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (WBCI '23)

• Organizing Committee in The 10th International Conference on Big Data Applications and Services (BIGDAS '22)

• Local Arrangement Chair in The 10th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (WBCI '22)

• Competition Committee Member in The 9th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (WBCI '21)

• Program Committee Member in International Conference on Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (ICCEAI '21)
  
  

Regular Referee:

• IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics

• IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

• IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering

• IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

• Expert Systems With Applications

• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

• Frontiers in Neuroscience

• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP)

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

• IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC)

• Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC)

• International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

Academic Awards 

• Silver Award, “Analysis of the Relationship Between Blood Glucose and Physiological Indicators: Implications for Personalized Health Management”, KCC2025, 2025.07

• Best Paper Award (2nd Place), “Attention-based Latent Representation Learning for Cross-Linguistic EEG Decoding”, 2025 한국뇌공학회 하계학술대회, 2025.06

• 교육품질부문 BK교육우수교수상, BK21충북정보기술교육연구단, 2025.02

• 방위사업청장상(1st Place), "뇌x컴퓨터 인터페이스 기반 표적인식 경진대회", 국방과학연구소, 2024.03

• Bronze Award, “Exhibition Visitor Trajectory Analysis and Visualization System Using YOLOv5”, KCC2024

• Best Paper Award (2nd Place), “Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm System based on Multi-Directional CNN-BiLSTM Network Using EEG Signals,”, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMB Society)

• Silver Award, “Cardiac Recognition and Abnormal Detection of Pet Heart Failure Using Dual-Stage YOLOv5,”, ACK2022

• Bronze Award, “Drowsiness Classification using Convolutional Neural Network based on Electroencephalography Signals,”, ACK2022

• KU Graduate Student Achievement Award, “Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm System based on Multi-Directional CNN-BiLSTM Network Using EEG Signals,”, Korea University

• Best Poster Paper Award, “Analysis of Movement-Related Cortical Potentials for a Lower Limb Exoskeleton Control,” 2017 6th Symposium of Brain and Artificial Intelligence, Brain Engineering Society of Korea

• Outstanding Research Award, “Development of Brain Signal Processing Algorithms based on Deep Learning for Decoding User Intentions to Control a Lower Limb Exoskeleton,” 2015 1st Microsoft Research Korea and Japan Academic Day, Microsoft Research Asia

Keynote Speech & Tutorial & Invited Talk

• "AI Tutorial for Medical Applications", 세종특별자치시의사회 추계학술대회, 2025.11.29

• "Toward an EEG‑to‑Speech Neural Interface via Advanced Deep Learning", KOREA AI SUMMIT 2025, 2025.11.21

• "Bridging AI and Veterinary Medicine: Multimodal Innovations and Real-World Applications", 대한수의학회 추계학술대회, 2025.10.22

• "Foundation Models-Based Autonomous Manufacturing and Its Application", 한국자동차연구원 산업혁신기반구축 사업 세미나, 2025.10.20

• "Introduction to Advanced Neuro-AI Technology: Brain-Computer Interfaces & AI for Veterinary Medicine", 고려대학교 전자및정보공학과 초청특강, 2025.08.08

• "AI-Based Autonomous Manufacturing: Foundation Models and Its Application", 산업기술혁신사업단 워크샵 기술 세미나, 2025.07.17

• "Introduction to Advanced Neurocomputing Technology", 고려대학교 인공지능학과 초청강연, 2025.06.30

• "Foundation Models in Robotics: Applications, Challenges, and the Future", 현대NGV , 2024.09.27

• "Artificial Intelligence for Veterinary Medicine and Its Applicationse", 동물의료ICT 융합인재양성사업단 워크샵 , 2024.05.31

• "Introduction to Advanced Neurocomputing Technology: Brain-Computer Interfaces & AI for Veterinary Medicine", 한림대학교 의료 인공지능 융합인재 양성사업단 초청강연, 2024.05.27

• "Smart Brain-Computer Interaction: Semantic Decoding of Speech Imagery Based on Deep Neural Active Learning", 대한의용생체공학회 춘계학술대회, 2024.05.10

• "Advanced Neurocomputing Technology and Its Applications: Brain-Computer Interfaces & AI for Veterinary Medicine", 한국차세대컴퓨팅학회 춘계학술대회, 2024.04.26

• "Multimodal AI in Veterinary Medicine:Innovations and Applications", 2024 뇌와 인공지능 심포지엄, 2024.02.28

• "Applications of Direct Neural Language Decoding through Brain-Computer Interface", 대한뇌파신경생리학회 2023년 제10회 워크숍 및 연례학술대회 (KEEG 2023), 2023.12.02

• "Direct Brain Decoding Possible: Brain-Computer Interface and its Applications Using Intuitive Paradigms", The 13th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS 2023), 2023.08.23

• "Human-AI Teaming: Recent Advances for Brain-Machine Interface and Veterinary Applications", 2023 뇌와 인공지능 워크숍, 2023.08.11

• "Brain-Machine Teaming: Recent Advances for Neural Language Decoding from EEG Signals", 7th Edition of International Conference on Neurology And Neurological Disorders (Neurology 2023), 2023.06.16

• "Making Human Brain Decoding Possible: Brain-Machine Interface Technology with AI", 한국스마트미디어학회 신진연구자 소개 세션, 2023.04.28

• "NeuroTalk: Mind Reading Technology based on Brain-Machine Interface and its Applications", 인하대학교 인공지능융합연구센터 인공지능융합세미나, 2023.03.21

• "딥러닝·머신러닝을 활용한 인공지능 활용 사례", 세종특별자치시 2023년 영상보안 AI딥러닝 및 산업안전영상 기술세미나, 2023.03.02

• "CatchMind: Recent Advances for Brain-Machine Interfacing from EEG Signals", 경북대학교 BK 초청 세미나, 2022.12.29

• "Making Mind Reading Possible: Brain-Computer Interface in AI", 2022 ECE FRONTIER SYMPOSIA, 2022.08.29

• "AI Tutorial and Its Applications", 한국통신학회 IOT 기반 신재생 에너지 AI 응용 기술 워크샵, 2022.07.13

• "AI Collaborated by the Human Brain:  Brain-Computer Interface", 충북대학교 인공지능연구소 세미나, 2022.04.21

• "AI Technology for Mind Reading: Brain-Computer Interface", 충북대학교 컴퓨터정보통신연구소 세미나, 2022.03.30