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Work Experience

  • 2023-present
    Apple,Inc
    Sensing Design Engieer, Cupertino
    • Hardware and algorithm development for touch sensing solutions for future iPhone products
    • Algorithm development to enhance sensing performance and accuracy
    • AI-based touch sensing module design optimization
    • ML-based models uncovering hidden correlations across multimodal data enabling predictive mapping between chip-level design and sensing signals
  • 2021-2023
    Stanford University
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    • AI-augmented wearables for human-machine interface. Keyboard-less typing and gesture prediction through few-shot learning (link)
    • Low-channel EMG wrist band for gesture/health/language prediction.
    • MIT Innovators Under 35, 2022, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
  • 2014-2021
    Seoul National University
    PhD Researcher
    • AI-based patch that decode human gestures (link)
    • Ultra-thin wearables for human physiology/gesture (link)
    • Transparent wearable 3D touch sensor (link)

Education

  • 2021
    Seoul National University
    Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
    • AI-enhanced wearables for human-machine interfaces
      • Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • 2014
    Korea University
    B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Skills

  • AI
    • Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Time series, Data Science, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Few-shot learning
    • Programming/Technical skills; Python (PyTorch, Tensorflow), C++, Matlab, Labview, Docker, AWS
  • HW
    • Embedded circuitry design for multi-modal signal measurement device
    • Sensor design for human motion & physiology (Wearable EMG/ECG, touch, strain)

Honors and Awards

    • MIT Innovators Under 35, 2022, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
    • Post-Doctoral Overseas Training Fellowship granted by National Foundation of Korea (Strategic Field:Intelligent Semiconductor/Advanced Materials)
    • 2020 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Seoul National University
    • 2020 Seoul National University Youlchon AI Honorable Mention (top 10 entry)
    • Naver AI gitHackerthon Competition 2019, Entered the top 40 entry
    • Global PhD Fellowship 2017 granted by the National Research Foundation of Korea
    • Scholarship for academic excellence, Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, 2010-2012
    • 55th National Science Exhibition (participated by 1,720 teams Awarded the 1st Prize by the President of South Korea, Lee M.B, 2009)
    • V-th Asian Pacific Astronomy Olympiad, 2nd Prize medal, 2009

Invited Talks

    • Innovations in AI-Enhanced Soft Sensors for Gesture Recognition, System X Alliance, Stanford University, June 2023 (link)
    • Soft Electronics for Biosignal & Human Machine interface, Korea University Medical Center (KUMC), Department of Physiology, May 2023
    • AI-enhanced electronic skin that rapidly reads hand tasks with limited data, Stanford University, Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWear), Jan 2023 (link)
    • Electronic skin with AI for Augmented Human-Machine Interface, POSTECH, Mechanical Engineering, December 2022
    • Electronic skin with AI for Augmented Human-Machine Interface, KAIST, Bio and Brain Engineering, December 2022
    • Electronic skin with AI for Augmented Human-Machine Interface, Yonsei University, Mechanical Engineering, December 2022
    • Electronic skin with AI for Augmented Human-Machine Interface, Seoul National University, Mechanical Engineering, December 2022
    • Augmented skin electronics for human-machine interaction based on laser nano structuring and machine intelligence, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), February 2021