Education
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 1996
Dissertation title: "Multiresolution 3-D Range Segmentation Using Focus Cues"
Supervisor: Prof. Alan C. Bovik
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, Korea
Master in Electrical Engineering, February 1988
Thesis title: "A New Classified VQ Algorithm in the DCT Domain"
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Bachelor of Engineering in Control and Instrumentation, February 1986
Konkuk University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Professor, Sep. 2003 ~ Present
Samsung Electronics, Principal Engineer, Digital Media R&D Center, Suwon, Kyeongki-do, Korea, May 2003 ~ Aug. 2003
- Project leader for Scalable Video Coding project
- Project leader for DVDP software optimization project
- Project leader for Media Solution project
- Error concealment for video transmission
KLA-Tencor Corporation, High Speed Image and Data Processing, Algorithm Group, Milpitas, CA, USA, Senior Software Engineer, Aug. 2000 ~ Mar. 2002
- Development of next generation wafer inspection algorithm, Hierarchical Local Automatic Threshold (HLAT) algorithm
- Implementation of HLAT algorithm in C language
- Simulation and improvement of HLAT algorithm
Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Advanced Video & Data Networking Department, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, Mar. 1999 ~ July 2000
- Development of Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) chip
- Functional verification of Transport Add Drop Multiplexing (TADM) chip
Sarnoff Corporation, HDTV and Multimedia Division, Princeton, New Jersey, Member of Technical Staff, Dec. 1996 ~ Mar. 1999
- Implementation and simulation of DCT domain decoder, picture composition, and image resizing using MPEG-2 decoder program using C language
- Algorithm development and simulation for compressed domain processing of MPEG-2
- Modeling and simulation of transport stream system target decoder (T-STD) for MPEG-2 decoder buffer modeling using C language
The University of Texas at Austin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering, Graduate Research Assistant, Austin, Texas, Sep. 1993 ~ Dec. 1996
Schlumberger Austin Research, Part-time and Summer Intern, Austin, Texas, Sep. 1994 ~ May 1995
Tracor Applied Sciences, Summer intern, Austin, Texas, June 1993 ~ Aug. 1993
Korean Broadcasting Systems, Research and Development Engineer, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 1988 ~ July 1991
- Research on HDTV and video compression
- Software development for HDTV using C language
- Hardware design and implementation of 2-dimensional digital filter for HDTV
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Visual Communications Laboratory, Research Assistant, Seoul, Korea, July 1986 ~ Feb. 1988
Membership
IEEE, Senior Member, 2016-Current
IEEE, Member, 1991-2015
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