Education
  • 1995
    1999

    PhD degree (Apr. 1995
  • - Mar. 1999)

    • Doctoral Thesis: "Studies on Stroke Correspondence Determination Method for On-line Character Recognition." Discipline: the Department of Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering Kyushu University, Japan
  • 1994
    1995

    Research Student (Apr. 1994
  • - Mar. 1995)

    • Kyushu University, Japan Discipline: Computer Science and Communication Engineering
  • 1990
    1994

    Master of Science (Mar. 1990 - Feb. 1994)

    Pusan National University, Korea Discipline: Computer Science (Awarded a Master's degree. Title of the dissertation: Noised Pattern Recognition by Fuzzy Multilayer Perceptron)
  • 1986
    1990

    Bachelor of Science (Mar. 1986 - Feb. 1990)

    Pusan National University, Korea Discipline: Computer Science and Statistics
Jobs And Experience
  • 2019
    Now

    Professor (2019 - current):

    Pattern Processing Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of AIZU, JAPAN
  • 2004
    2019

    Senior Associate Professor (2004 - 2019):

    Pattern Processing Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of AIZU, JAPAN
  • 1999
    2004

    Associate Professor (1999 – 2004):

    Multimedia Systems Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of AIZU, JAPAN
Awards
  1. Awarded an Excellent presentation Award from 84th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association (JPA2020), PD-136, Sep. 8-10, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.
  2. Awarded a Best Paper Award from 3rd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2020 (IEEE ECEI 2020), M200134, Feb 5-7, 2020, Hanoi, Vietnam.
  3. Awarded a Best Paper Award from 2nd IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Innovation and Invention (IEEE ICKII 2019), July 13-16, 2019, Seoul Korea.
  4. Awarded a Best Paper Award from The 3rd ACM Conference on Applications in Information Technology (ICAIT-2018), Nov. 1-3, 2018, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.
  5. Awarded a Best Paper Award from The 8th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST 2017), pp. 93 - 97, Nov. 8-10, 2017, The Splendor Hotel, Taichung, Taiwan.
  6. Awarded a Professional Invitation from Marquis “2006-2007 (6th), 2009-2010 (7th) and 2011-2012 (8th) Edition of Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare®” 2006-2008. Listed in Marquis “2006-2007 (6th), 2009-2010 (7th) and 2011-2012 (8th) Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare”.
  7. Awarded a Professional Invitation from Marquis “2008-2009 (10th) and 2011-2012 (11th) Edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering®” Mar. 2008 and 2010.
  8. Awarded a Professional Invitation from Marquis “Who's Who in Asia” Nov. 2007, 2012. Listed in Marquis “Who's Who in Asia (1st) (2007), Who's Who in Asia (2nd) (2012)”.
  9. Awarded a Professional Invitation from Marquis “Who's Who in the World” Mar. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2019. Listed in Marquis “Who's Who in the World (2006, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019)”.
  10. Awarded an Aizu-IT Encouragement Prize of from Aizu-Wakamatsu City by Aizu-Wakamatsu City president, Jan 20, 2010. http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/events/aizuit2009.html
  11. Awarded a Best Paper Award from The 2nd International Conference on the Frontiers of Information Technology, Application and Tools (FITAT2009) Sep.2009.
  12. Awarded a Best Presentation Award from The 19th Intelligent System Symposium (FAN09) Sep.2009.
  13. Awarded a Professional Invitation from American Biographical Institute “2008 Man of The Year representing JAPAN” Nov. 2008.
  14. Awarded “International Educator of the Year 2006” from International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, Great Britain, in the mid 2006.
  15. Awarded “2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century” from International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, Great Britain, in the mid 2006.
  16. Awarded a Best Paper from 2004 Conference on Chinese Language Computing.
  17. Awarded a Encouragement Prize from IEEE Society Nov. 2004. T. Tamura and Jungpil Shin, “Moving Object Extraction Using Frame Difference,'' Proc. Joint Conf. of Electrical and Electronics Eng.
  18. Awarded a Promotion Prize from Information Processing Society in Kyushu, Japan, in May 1996.
WORK HISTROY

Editor and Reviewer of International Journal, Reviewer of Research Fund (more than 20. This is selected lists.)

  • Guest Editor of The Journal Sensors MDPI (ISSN 1424-8220, IF 3.275), Special Issue entitled "Vision and Sensor-Based Sensing in Human Action Recognition", Aug. 2021. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Human_Action
  • Associate Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Application (JDCTA, ISSN: 1975-9339).
  • Associate Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Convergence Information Technology (JCIT, ISSN: 1975-9320)
  • Associate Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Next Generation Information Technology (JNIT, ISSN: 2233-9388)
  • Editor of International Journal of Intelligent Information Processing (IJEI, ISSN: 2093-5765).
  • Editor of International Journal of Robots, Education and Art (IJREA, ISSN: 2233-4572)
  • Editor of International Journal of Intelligent Information Processing (IJIIP, ISSN: 2093-1964)
  • Editor of KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems (KTCCS, ISSN: 2287-5891)
  • Editor of KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering (KTCCS, ISSN: 2287-5905)
  • Editor of International Journal of Emerging Multidisciplinary Research (IJEMR, ISSN: 2546-1583)
  • Editor of Daehan Society of Industrial Management, Korea
  • Editor of Engineering Science & Technology (Universal Wiser), Singapore
  • Reviewer of JSPS Kakenhi Fund
  • Reviewer of NRF (National Research Fund of Korea)
  • Reviewer of Multimedia Tools and Application (Springer)
  • Reviewer of IEEE Access
  • Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

    • Chairman on International Conference and Workshop (more than 20. This is selected lists.)

  • - The 2005 Conference of the Japanese Society for Planetary Science (JSPS) Finance Chair (held in University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan Sep. 19 - 23, 2005)
  • - The IEEE 6th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT2006) Publicity Chair and Member of the Program Committee (held in Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Sep. 20-22, 2006)
  • - The 2008 International Conference on Ubiquitous City Technology (ICUCT 2008) Conference Co-Chair (held in Shizukuishi, Iwate Japan, Jan. 23-26, 2008)
  • - The 2011 Korea-Japan International Joint Workshop on Information Tech, Korean Assoc. of Surveying and Mapping, Program Committee Chair, (held in The University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan, Jan. 9-12, 2011)
  • - The 2nd International Workshop on Data Mining Applications: Bioinformatics and Medical Information (DBMI 2011) Chair of Workshop (held in Chungbuk National University, Korea, May 11-13, 2011)
  • - The IEEE 3rd International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (IEEE iCAST 2011) Publication Committee Chair, (held in Dalian, China, Sep. 27-30, 2011)
  • - The IEEE International Conf. on Computing Technology and Infor. Management (IEEE ICCM, NCM and ICNIT) Editor (held in Seoul, Korea, Apr. 24-26, 2012.)
  • - The 5th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Application and Tools (FITAT 2012) Program Chair (held in National Univ. of Mongolia, Mongolia, Aug. 8 -10, 2012)
  • - The 2012 International Conference on Digital Contents and Applications (DCA 2012) Editorial Committee (held in Kangwondo, Korea, Dec. 16-19, 2012)
  • - The IEEE 5th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (IEEE iCAST 2013) Publicity Chair, (held in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, Nov. 2 - 4, 2013)
  • - The 6th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Application and Tools (FITAT 2015) Program Chair (held in Jilin, China, July 20-23, 2015)
  • - 18th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS2017) Program Committee Chair (held in Daegu, Korea, Oct. 11-14, 2017)
  • - ACM 2017 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (ACM RACS 2017), International Advisory Chair (held in Krakow, Poland, Sep. 20-23, 2017)
  • - The Convergence Society of Small and Medium Business (SMBs) An executive director in 2010-current.

    • MOU agreement with University

  • - Made MOU Agreement between Pusan National University in Korea and the University of Aizu 2005.
  • - Made MOU Agreement between Hallym University in Korea and the University of Aizu 2007.
  • - Made MOU Agreement between Seoul University in Korea and the University of Aizu 2007.
  • - Made MOU Agreement between Yonsei University in Korea and the University of Aizu 2008.
  • - Made MOU Agreement between Chungbuk National University in Korea and the University of Aizu 2008.
  • - Made MOU Agreement between Postech in Korea and the University of Aizu 2009.