She majored Mathematics for her BSc and MSc at the Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea (one semester in the Birmingham University in UK) and then switched to Computer Science when she spent two years in the Institute of Systems Science in the National University of Singapore. She was involved in CieMed group, which did medical imaging research in collaboration with John Hopkins University. Then she moved to Geneva, Switzerland to do her PhD in MIRALab at the University of Geneva where her topic became Computer Graphics focusing on Virtual Human Modeling for Animation. After that, she has worked on computer modeling and animation, face recognition, haptic, computer games, medical imaging and application and etc. After starting work as a Professor in 2003 in the University of Ottawa, she has been awarded several research grants such as NSERC DISCOVERY, NSERC RTI, CFI, ORF, ORNEC, CIHR/NSERC CHRP, NSERC Engage, SME4SME, NCE GRAND and Global Frontier R&D program by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Most of grands, she is the Principal Investigator. Before coming to Canada, she also worked in several industries such as Korea Telecom and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in South Korea and Eyematic Interfaces Inc in U.S.A.

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