Hyun Seung Yang

Biography

Hyun Seung Yang is currently a Dean of Research and a Professor of Dept. of Computer Science of KAIST. He is also a Founding Director of KMCC(KAIST Microsoft Research Collaboration Center) at KAIST.  He got his BS degree from Dept. of Electronics Engineering. Seoul National Unversity, Korea and both  MS and Ph.D. Degrees from School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana USA.

He worked with Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa as an assistant professor. He then joined Dept. of Computer Science, KAIST in 1988 and now a full and tenured professor since 1997.

He is a Director of VSMM (International Virtual Systems and Multimedia) Society and Steering Committee Members of both ICAT (Intl Conf. on Artificial Reality and Telexistence) and Intl Conf. on Edutainment

He was a Governing Board Member of IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition), Chairman of SIGAI(Artificial Intelligence) of KISS(Korea Information Science Society), Vice President of KIISE (Korea Institute of Information Science and Engineering), Vice President of KMMS(Korea Multimedia Society), Vice President of KRS (Korea Robotics Society) and a Board Member of KBS(Korea Brain Society). He is now a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK).

He was General Chair of 21CTIS 2009 (21C TransMedia Innovation Symposium), ISAC2009 (Intl Symposium for Arts and Contents), Program Chairs of ICEC 2008 (Intl Conf. for Entertainment Computing) and ASIAGRAPH Tokyo 2008, General Chair of ISAT2008 (International Symposium for Arts and Technology), General Chair of ICAT 2004 (14th International Conf. on Artificial Reality and Telexistence), Program Chair of VSMM 2002 (8th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia). He served Program Chairs/Program Committee Members of many international conferences on Artifical Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Computer Vision, Robotics, Computer Graphics and Multimedia.

His research activities include Artificial Intelligence/Vision, Human Robotics, VR/MR, Ubiquitous/Wearable Computing, Media Art and Technology.

E-Mail: hsyang@kaist.ac.kr

Homepage: http://mind.kaist.ac.kr