포스텍 컴퓨터공학과에 황인석 교수님이 10월 16일자로 부임하였습니다.

황인석 교수님은 모바일 및 퍼베이시브 컴퓨팅, 인간-컴퓨터 상호작용, 응용기계학습 분야의 접점에서, 다양한 미래지향적 컴퓨팅 시스템 및 어플리케이션을 디자인 및 개발하고 이를 새로운 사회적, 인간중심적 문제와 접목하여 실세계 속 컴퓨팅의 지평을 넓히고 사용자 경험을 증강시키는 연구를 진행하고 있습니다.

Biography:

Inseok Hwang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at POSTECH, South Korea. Prior to joining POSTECH, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research – Austin in the United States from 2014. He was also appointed as an IBM Master Inventor from 2016 in recognition of his prolific invention activities and contribution to the corporate intellectual property. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAIST in 2013 under the advisement of Prof. Junehwa Song.

Research Topics: 

In his research, the central mission is to advance the computing horizon in our real life to augment human ability and experiences, at the intersection of mobile and pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, and applied machine learning. In this light, he strives to design, build, and evaluate first-of-a-kind human-centered computing systems and their novel applications associated with our real-life problems and human factors in various domains.

His current research interests include:

– Socio-Physical Platforms and Applications: Telepresence, Untact / Augmented Social Interaction

– Application-driven Mobile / Pervasive Computing: Health, Family & Children, Social Well-being, Groups and Crowds

– Systems, Tools, and Interfaces for Emerging Smart Devices: VR/AR, Wearables / Earables, Voice-enabled Agents

– On-device Real-life Intelligence: Multi-modal Sensing / Energy / Latency / Continuity / Concurrency / Privacy

– Human Factors in Novel Human-centered Systems and Applications: Usability, User Experience