Introduction

I am a Full Professor at the Department of Software and Director of Intelligent Media Laboratory (IM Lab), Sejong University, Seoul, Korea. Since 2002, I have served Sejong University on different key positions including Dean of two colleges, Managing Director of National Program of Excellence in Software, Vice President of Sejong Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation and currently as a Vice President of Research Affairs. I led the International Conference on Next Generation Computing four times as a General Chair. I am collaborating with international teams from Europe, UK, USA, Brazil, Pakistan, Vietnam and many other countries around the globe.

My research interests gravitate towards image processing, pattern recognition, video analytics, Big Data analysis, multimedia data processing, energy load forecasting, IoT, IIoT, and smart cities.

I have published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed international journals in the mentioned areas, focusing on top venues of these domains including IEEE TMC-Systems, TII, TIE, IoTJ, COMMAG, Access, Elsevier FGCS, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing, PRL, IJIM, Springer MTAP, JOMS, RTIP, etc. For more details about my publications, please visit the following links.

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