Faculty

Helen Hong (홍헬렌)

📧 hlhong@swu.ac.kr

🏢 Room 202, Science Building 2

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Ewha Womans University (2001.08)

• M.S. in Computer Science, Ewha Womans University (1996.02)

• B.S. in Computer Science, Ewha Womans University (1994.02)

Professor Experience

Academic Positions

• • Professor, Department of Software Convergence, Seoul Women's University (2006.03-Present)

  • Contract Assistant Professor (BK Program), Seoul National University (2003.08-2006.02)

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (BK Program), Seoul National University (2001.09-2023.07)

Administrative Leadership @ Seoul Women's University

• Dean, College of Future Industry Covergence (2026.03-Present)

• Vice President for Industry-Academic Cooperation / Director of Reserach Affairs (2023.09-2025.08)

• Chief Administrative Officer (2023.03-2023.08)

• Information and Computing Center (2015.09-2021.08)

Professional Activities

• Vice President, Korean Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (2026.01-Present)

• Associate Editor-in-Chief, Korean Society of Computer Graphis (2026.01-Present)

• Member, Global Cooperation Subcommittee, National AI Strategy Committee (2026.09-Present)

• Program Committee Member, SPIE Medical Imaging CAD Conference (2019.03-Present)

• Acamedic Director, Functional & Quantitative Lung Imaging Study Group, Korean Society of Thoracic Radiology (2019.03-Present)

• Academic Director, Korean Society of Computer Graphics (2024.01-Present)

• Board Member, Korea Multimedia Society (2013.03-Present)

• Member, AI Primary Healthcare Task Force, National AI Strategy Committee (2026.12-2026.03)

• Director of Finance, Korean Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (2023.01-2025.12)

• Director of External Relations, Korean Society of Medical Artifical Intelligence (2023.01-2025.02)

Industry & Advisory Experience

• Industry-Academic Advisory Board Member, ASREGEN Co., Ltd. (2026.01-Present)

• Outside Director, Hutom Co., Ltd. (2017.05-2025.05)

• Industry-Academic Advisory Board Member, CG Bio Co., Ltd. (2016.08-2016.12)

• Industry-Academic Advisory Board Member, Dentium Co., Ltd. (2014.12-2018.01)

• Technical Advisor, INFINITT Healthcare Co., Ltd. (2003.05-2012.06)

• Senior Researcher, INFINITT Healthcare Co., Ltd. (2002.12-2003.04)

International Research Experience

• Visiting Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany (2000.07-2000.11)

• Visiting Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany (1999.02-1999.09)

• Exchange Graduate Student, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Korea–Germany Graduate Student Exchange Program Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany (1996.07-1996.09)

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Paper Contribution Award, Korean Society of Computer Graphics (2025.07.10.)

• Barom Award (Outstanding Faculty in Industry-Academic Cooperation), Seoul Women’s University (2025.05.22.)

• Barom Award (Outstanding Faculty in Industry-Academic Cooperation), Seoul Women’s University (2024.05.17.)

• Best Paper Honorable Mention, MICCAI 2022 DALI Workshop (Noisy Label Classification using Label Noise Selection with Test-Time Augmentation Cross-Entropy and NoiseMix) (2022.09.22.)

• Barom Award (Outstanding Faculty in Industry-Academic Cooperation), Seoul Women’s University (2022.05.20.)

• Cum Laude Award, SPIE Medical Imaging CAD Conference, 2020 (Lung Tumor Segmentation using Coupling Net with Shape-Focused Prior) (2020.02.18.)

• Outstanding Paper Contribution Award, Korea Information Science Society (2013.07.04.)