Prof. Chan-Woo Kim
Prof. Chan-Woo Kim

Prof. Chanwoo Kim

Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University

Address: Anam-dong, Seungbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea (02841)
Office: Woojeong Information Center 2F
Email: chanwcom@korea.ac.kr
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Education

  • Ph.D - Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (PA), US, 2010
  • M.S - School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, KR, 2001
  • B.S - School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, KR, 1998
  • Seoul Science High School, KR, 1994

Experiences

  • 2024/01-now : Professor, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
  • 2018/02-2023/12 : Executive Vice President (EVP), Samsung Research, Seoul, Korea
  • 2018/02-2023/12 : Head of Voice & Language Team, Samsung Research, Seoul, Korea
  • 2013/02-2018/02 : Senior Software Engineer, Google Speech, Moutain View, CA, USA
  • 2011/01-2013/01 : Speech Scientist, Microsoft Speech, Redmond, WA, USA
  • 2003/06-2005/08 : Senior Research Engineer, LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea
  • 2003/03-2003/05 : Research Engineer, SK Teletech, Seoul, Korea
  • 2000-2002 : Research Engineer, EdumediaTek, Seoul, Korea

Courses

2024 Spring
  • XAI509 Automatic Speech Recognition
  • XAI604 Automatic Speech Recognition Application And Practice

Awards

  • 2023/03 IEEE Spectrum profile article about Dr. Chanwoo Kim's engineering career Link to the Article
  • 2021/12 Youngest Executive Vice President (EVP) promoted in 2021 at Samsung Electronics among new 68 EVPs for contribution to on-device end-to-end speech recognition
  • 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1st author)
  • 2011.02 : 17-th Samsung Humantech Thesis Bronze prize (1st author), ”Power-Normalized cepstral coefficients for robust speech recognition”.
  • 2010.02 : 16-th Samsung Hamantech Thesis Honour prize (1st author), ”Small power boosting and spectral subtraction for robust speech recognition”.
  • 2005.07 : Scholarship for studying abroad 2005 - 2006, Korea Institute of Energy Evaluation and Planning.
  • 2005.01 : Research fellowship for Ph. D. study, 2005 - 2010, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • 1998.02 : Graduate cum laude, Seoul National University