Curriculum Vitae
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Jong Chul Ye
KAIST Endowed Chair Professor (KAIST 지정 석좌교수)
Professor,  Department of Bio and Brain Engineering
Department of Mathematical Sciences
 Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
 E-mail: jong.ye@kaist.ac.kr
 Tel: +82-42-350-4320
 Fax : +82-42-350-4310
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Education
  • Sep.1996 - May.1999 :  Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Purdue University
  • Mar.1993 - Feb.1995  :  M.S. Control Engineering (currently Electrical Engineering), Seoul National University, Korea
  • Mar.1988 - Feb.1993  :  B.S. Control Engineering (currently Electrical Engineering), Seoul National University, Korea


Work Experiences
  • Aug. 2004  -  current      : Assistant, Associate, and Professor (tenured), Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • March 2017- current       : Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, KAIST
  • July  2014  -  Aug. 2015  : Interim Department Head,  Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • Mar. 2007  -  March. 2010    : Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejon, Korea
  • 2003.     -     2004.          : Senior Researcher, X-ray CT Technology Group, GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York
  •  2001.     -     2003.         : Senior Member Research Staff, Philips Research Center, Briarcliff Manor, New York
  •  1999.     -     2001.         : Postdoctoral Research, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Editorial Positions

Professional Activities
Research Interests
  • Machine learning, deep learning
  • Compressed sensing for biomedical applications 
  •  MRI signal processing (parallel imaging, time-sequential sampling, k-t sampling etc) 
  •  Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for brain imaging
  • Diffuse optical tomography for molecular imaging applications (algorithm and system development).
  • CT/PET reconstruction algorithm 
  • Super-resolution microscopy
  • Ultrasound imaging, inverse scattering problems
  •  Statistical signal processing, inverse problem 


Honors and Awards
  • April 2016:       Best student paper award from 2016 IEEE International Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Prague
  • March 216:        KAIST Endowed Chair Professorship
  • Apr. 2013         : Best student paper award from 2013 IEEE International Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), San Francisco
  • Feb. 2012 - Jan. 2013 : Beckman Senior Fellowship Award, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Feb. 2012          : KAIST Research Excellence Award
  • 2010           : Guerbet Paper Award,Korea Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • 2010           : Best Paper Presentation Award, Korea Human Brain Mapping Symposium
  • 2009           : Best Paper Presentation Award, Korea Human Brain Mapping Symposium
  • 2009, Spring      : Best Lecturer Award, Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  •  2009           : The 1st place winner of Reconstruction Challenge, ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction
  • 2008           : Best Paper Presentation Award, Korea Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Workshop
  • 2007           : Best Paper Presentation Award, Korea Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Workshop
  • 2004, Fall        : Best Lecturer Award, Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • 1996           : OSA New Focus Travel Grant Award
  • 1997 - 1999     : Purdue Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship
  • 1998           : Purdue Ismail Award
  • 1995 - 1998     : Korea Government Fellowship for Studying Abroad


Professional Membership
  • Feb.2013 -   current  : IEEE Senior Member
  • Jan.2013 -    current  : A member of Research Advisory Board for Vice Presidents of Samsung Electronics
  • Feb.2010 - Dec.2010 : A member of Working Committee for the Korean Brain Research Institute 
  • Board member of Korean Human Brain   Mapping Society (KHBM),
  • Board member of Korean Society forMagnetic Resonance inMedicine (KSMRM),
  • Board member of Korea Institute of Electrical   and Electronics Engineers (KIEE)

Academic Service
  • ​General Chair,  IEEE Sym. on Biomedical Imaging 2020.
  • Conference Organizer
        - Applied Inverse Problem Conference (AIPC), 2013
        - IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2005
        - IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
        - SPIE Conf. on Image Reconstruction fromIncompleteData, 2005,2007,2009, 2011
  • Reviewer
        - IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging
        - IEEE Trans. on Information Theory
        - IEEE Trans. on Image Processing
        - IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing
        - IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering
​        - IEEE Trans. on Computational Imaging
        - IEEE Signal Processing Letters
        - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
        - Nature Scientific Reports
        - NeuroImage
        - Human Brain Mapping
        - PlosOne
        - Inverse Problems
        - Inverse Problems and Imaging
        - SIAM Imaging Science and Technology
        - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
        - BMC Medical Imaging
        - Biomedical Engineering Online
        - Optics Letters
        - Optics Express
        - Optics Express
        - Journal of Biomedical Optics
        - Journal of X-ray Science and Technology
        - International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
        - New Journal of Physics
        - IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP)
        - IEEE International Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
        - IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
        - Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering inMedicine and Biology Society (EMBS)
        - European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
  • Session Chair
        - IEEE International Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
        - IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
        - Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering inMedicine and Biology Society (EMBS)