Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Sep 2007 - August 2010, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Sep 2005 - August 2007, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  • B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mar 1996 - August 2004, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Award
  • Tesla Top Talent Award 2016
  • Best Reviewer Award at IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2013
  • Best Paper Award at IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2011
  • The first place prize of 2008 Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America Moon Jung Chung Scholarship Poster Competition.
Experience
  • Vice President of AV Perception & ML foundation, Autonomous Vehicle, Nvidia, June 2023 - Current
  • Sr. Director of AV Perception, Autonomous Vehicle, Nvidia, July 2021 - June 2023
  • Director of AV Perception, Autonomous Vehicle, Nvidia, Sept 2019 - July 2021
  • Sr. Manager and Principal Scientist, Autonomous Vehicle, Nvidia, June 2017 - Sept 2019
  • Manager (Senior Staff Computer Vision Engineer), Autopilot Visual Perception, Tesla, March 2017 - June 2017
  • Senior Staff Computer Vision Engineer, Autopilot Computer Vision, Tesla, Jan 2017 - March 2017.
    Reporting to VP of Autopilot Computer Vision and demonstrating rountine feature driving with CEO. [details]
  • Staff Computer Vision Engineer, Autopilot Computer Vision, Tesla, May 2015 - Dec 2016.
  • Adjunt Faculty, Northern Virginia Community College, Dept. of Computer Science, Jan. 2015 - May 2015.
  • Research Scientist, Government Research, Object Video, Oct 2012 - May 2015
  • Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems, Eastman KODAK Research Labs., Sep 2010 - Oct 2012,
    reporting to Eastman Kodak Fellow.
  • Software Engineer, Research and Development Center, PERCEPTCOM Inc., Sep 2000 - Oct 2003

Leadership
  • Organizing Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2012
  • Organizing Committee, Symmetry Detection for Real World Images, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012 Workshop
  • Industrial Session Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2011
  • Joint IEEE/IS&T Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, 2011

Professional Membership
  • Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Computer Society
  • Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association
  • Korean Computer Scientist and Engineers Association in America

Invited Talk
  • Efficient Mean-shift Belief Propagation and Its Computer Vision Applications, VASC Seminar Series, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2010
  • Graphical Model Applications to Computer Vision, Eastman KODAK Digital Technology Forum, Oct 2009
  • Efficient Mean-shift Belief Propagation, Eastman KODAK Digital Technology Forum, May 2009