Prof. Wooil Kim

Director of IMPRESS Lab

Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Incheon National University

119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 22012, Korea

82-32-835-8459, wikim@inu.ac.kr, http://impress.inu.ac.kr

Education

Ph.D., Electronics Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2003

-Thesis: Model-based Feature Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition in Adverse Environments

-Advised by Prof. Hanseok Ko

M.S., Electronics Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 1998

-Thesis: Spectral Subtraction based on Phonemic and Auditory Properties

-Advised by Prof. Hanseok Ko

B.S., Electronics Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 1996

Professional Experiences

Dean, Jul. 2025-Present College of Information Technology, Incheon National University, Korea

Professor, Aug. 2012-Present Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea

Research Assistant Professor, Sept. 2007-Aug. 2012 Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

Research Associate, Sept. 2005-Aug. 2007 Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA, Supervised by Prof. John H.L. Hansen

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Sept. 2004-Aug 2005 KOSEF Post-doc. program, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Supervised by Prof. Richard M. Stern

Post-Doctorial Fellow, Sept. 2003-Aug. 2004 Brain Korea 21 IT Program, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Supervised by Prof. Hanseok Ko

Professional Activities

Organizing Committee

- ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea, Apr. 2024 (Local Arrangement Chair)

- Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea, Sept. 2022 (Local Arrangement Chair)

- 33rd Conference on Speech Communication and Signal Processing, Acoustical Society of Korea (ASK), Aug. 2016 (General Chair)

- 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2014 (Finance/Registration Chair)

- 6th Biennial Workshop on Digital Signal Processing for In-Vehicle Systems, Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2013 (Finance Chair)

Conference Session Chairs

- 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers, Pacific Grove, U.S.A., Nov, 2009

- 20th Conference on Speech Communication and Signal Processing, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2003

- Acoustic Society of Korea Conference (2015-current)

Reviewer and Review Committee

- Journals: IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Digital Signal Processing (Elsevier), Computer Speech and Language

- Conferences: Interspeech-{2007-current}, ICASSP-{2008-current}, IEEE-ASRU-{2007, 2009}

IEEE, ISCA member

Honors

Academic Award, Acoustical Society of Korea (ASK), 2025

Academic Award, Acoustical Society of Korea (ASK), 2016

Best Lecturer in English Award, Incheon National University, Spring Semester of 2014