JongWon Kim

Professor, GIST, Korea

Dr. JongWon Kim received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1987, 1989 and 1994, respectively, all in control and instrumentation engineering. During 1994-2001, he was an Assistant Professor of Electronics Engineering Department at the KongJu National University, KongJu, Korea, and then a Research Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering - Systems Department at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. From Sept. 2001, he has joined the Department of Information & Communications (DIC), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea, where he is currently working as a full Professor. Under the slogan of "Dynamic composition of immersive media-centric services over the wired/wireless IP convergence networks," he is focusing on networked media systems and services. Dr. Kim is the senior member of IEEE, and the members of ACM, SPIE, KICS, IEEK, KIISE (former KISS), KIPS, and HCI-Korea. He has been serving as the editorial board member of Elsevier JVIS (Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation), several KIISE, and KIPS Journals.