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Prof. Hong Kook Kim
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · Adjunct Professor, Department of AI Convergence
EECS Building C, Room 507
hongkook@gist.ac.kr

Curriculum Vitae

김홍국 Hong Kook Kim

Professor

Affiliation & Contact

Affiliation
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Department of AI Convergence (Adjunct),

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
E-mail
hongkook@gist.ac.kr
Tel
062-715-2228
Fax
062-715-2204
Office
전기전자컴퓨터공학부 C동 507호

Education

  • 1994Ph.D., Electrical Engineering — KAIST
  • 1990M.S., Electrical Engineering — Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • 1988B.S., Control and Instrumentation Engineering — Seoul National University

Work Experience

  • 2017Dean of Planning — GIST
  • 2015 – 2017Dean of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science — GIST
  • 2008 – presentProfessor — GIST
  • 2003 – 2008Associate Professor — GIST
  • 1998 – 2003Senior Technical Staff Member — AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, New Jersey
  • 1998Senior Engineer — MMC Technology, Inc., Seoul, Korea
  • 1990 – 1998Senior Researcher — Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Kiheung, Korea

Research Fields

Speech Enhancement & Audio Coding

  • Noise reduction for improvement of speech quality and recognition performance
  • De-reverberation
  • Acoustic echo cancellation and residual echo suppression
  • Audio and speech coding

Speech and Sound Event Recognition

  • Speech recognition based on statistical and deep learning models
  • Pronunciation and language modeling
  • Acoustic event and scene detection based on deep learning classification models
  • Speech synthesis from input text by end-to-end synthesis systems

3D Audio

  • Stereo audio channel to 5.1 channel upmixing
  • Head-related transfer function modeling for personalized audio experience
  • Sound source separation across various objects
  • Sound source localization

Climate Change Prediction

  • Climate factor prediction based on recurrent neural networks
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Work Experience

  • 2017Dean of Planning — GIST
  • 2015 – 2017Dean of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science — GIST
  • 2008 – presentProfessor — GIST
  • 2003 – 2008Associate Professor — GIST
  • 1998 – 2003Senior Technical Staff Member — AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, New Jersey
  • 1998Senior Engineer — MMC Technology, Inc., Seoul, Korea
  • 1990 – 1998Senior Researcher — Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Kiheung, Korea
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Ph.D.

박종열
2004 · 정보통신공학과
서울과학기술대학교 인공지능응용학과 교수
신욱
2005 · 정보통신공학과
한국전자통신연구원(ETRI)
이영한
2011 · 정보기전공학부
한국전자기술연구원(KETI)
김선만
2013 · 정보기전공학부
한신대 AI·SW학과 교수
박남인
2013 · 정보통신공학과
국립과학수사연구원(NFS) 디지털과 공업연구관
전찬준
2017 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
조선대학교 컴퓨터공학과 교수 / CEO, 글로소리 주식회사
김용국
2023 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
LIG넥스원
이건우
2024 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
조선대학교 정보통신공학부 교수

M.S.

김성진
2004 · 정보통신공학과
이길호
2006 · 정보통신공학과
삼성전자, Language AI Team (MX)
조충상
2008 · 정보기전공학부
한국전자기술연구원(KETI)
박수연
2017 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
광주과학기술원(GIST)
신서현
2017 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
고영테크놀러지
문정민
2018 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
한국광기술원(KOPTI)
김준호
2020 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
한국과학기술정보연구원 (KISTI)
김태우
2020 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
한국전자기술연구원(KETI)
유예찬
2022 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
Supertone, Inc. ,음성 AI 연구원
박경완
2023 · 전기전자컴퓨터공학부
NHN AI기술랩
손상원
2025 · AI 대학원
방채운
2026 · AI 융합대학