| 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 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.
He developed world top class intelligent mobile robot (CAIR-2)
and intelligent human robots (AMI, AMIET, AMIO) highly acknowledged
by international societies. He was a winner of the 4th International
Mobile Robot Competition sponsored by IJCAI/AAAI held in
Montreal Canada in 1995 during IJCAI’95.
His research activities include Artificial Intelligence/Vision,
Human Robotics, Virtual Reality, Ubiquitous/Wearable Computing,
Media Art and Technology.
현재 KAIST 연구처장이며 KAIST 전산학과 교수이다. 또한 KAIST-Microsoft
공동연구센터 소장을 맡고 있다. 그는 서울대학교 전자공학과를 졸업하고 미국 퍼듀 대학교(Purdue
University)에서 전기공학 석,박사를 취득하였다.
그 후 아이오와 대학의 전자전산학공학부 조교수로
일하다 1988년 KAIST로 부임하였으며 1997년부터 현재까지 전산학과의 영년직교수로 재직하고 있다.
그는 국제패턴인식학회(ICPR) 이사이었으며 현 VSMM(International Virtual Systems
and Multimedia)의 디렉터, ICAT(Intl Conf. on Artificial Reality
and Telexistence)와 국제 에듀테인먼트 컨퍼런스의 운영위원이다.
KIISE(Korea Institute
of Information Science and Engineering)의 부회장이었으며 KISS(한국정보과학회)의
인공지능연구회장, 한국멀티미디어학회와 한국로봇공학학회 부회장, 한국뇌학회 이사를 역임 하였다. ISAT(International
Symposium for Art and Technology)2007, 2008과 ICAT2004(International
Conf. on Artificial Reality and Telexistence)의 조직위원장, ICEC(Intl
Conf. on Entertainment Computing)2008, ASIAGRAPH Tokyo 2008,
VSMM(Virtual Systems and Multimedia) 2002의 프로그램 위원장을 비롯하여
다수의 인공지능, 가상현실, 컴퓨터비전, 로봇공학, 컴퓨터그래픽스와 멀티미디어 관련 국제 컨퍼런스의
프로그램 위원이었으며 VSMM 2002와 ICAT 2004에서 Media/VR Arts and Technology
워크숍과 전시를 구성하였다.
그는 1995년 국제인공지능학회(IJCAI)와 미국인공지능학회(AAAI)가 공동주최한 캐나다 몬트리올에서
개최된 제 4회 세계 인공지능 이동로봇대회에서 우승하였다. 또한 에듀테인먼트 국제 컨퍼런스 2008,
ICAT 2003, 일본미디어아트페스티벌 2004의 초청연사, 2006년 1월에 출간된 IEICE 정보
시스템 국제저널의 인공현실과 원격존재감 (Telexistence)관련 특별판의의 초청 에디터였다.
그의 주요 연구분야는 인공지능/비전, 휴먼로봇기술, 버추얼 리얼리티, 유비쿼터스/웨어러블 컴퓨팅, 미디어
아트와 테그놀로지를 포함한다.
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