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ADVISORS

Film & OTT Series
Chang Jae Lee

School of Art Institute of Chicago, Film MFA

Specialization
  • Film & Media Production, Documentary
Research Area
  • Film Directing, Scenario Writing, Documentary, Editing
Major Career
  • Feature Film Directing
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Jung In Choi

Chung-Ang University, Film MFA

Specialization
  • Film/Multimedia, Film & Media Production
Research Area
  • Film Production, Scenario Writing, Directing, Digital Film Production, Film Distribution and Sales
Major Career
  • Feature Film 2 Producer
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Game/VFX & Animation
Gyuhyun Kim

School of Visual Arts, Computer Art MFA

Specialization
  • Film/Multimedia, Immersive Media/Animation Contents
Research Area
  • Character Animation, Immersive Media Content, Animation Automation
Major Career
  • Former Sony Pictures Imageworks Animator - ‘Smallfoot’, ‘Spiderman : Into the Spiderverse’
Content Development & Producing
Tak Hoon Kim

School of Visual Arts, Computer Art MFA

Specialization
  • Film/Multimedia, OTT•Content Planning/Policy/Business
Research Area
  • Animation Production, Character Animation, Government policy for Content
Major Career
  • CEO of Taktoon Enterprise Inc., SVA Board of Trustees
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Heeyoung Cho

Chung-Ang University GSAIM, Imaging Science & Arts Media Policy & Planning Professional Doctorate

Specialization
  • Film/Multimedia, Entertainment Content Planning/Policy/Business
Research Area
  • Content Development, Media Storytelling
Major Career
  • Former Investment Director at CJ Investment/CJ Entertainment
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Media Art
Jin Wan Park

Pratt Institute, CGIM MFA

Specialization
  • Image Engineering, Art Engineering
Research Area
  • Art Engineering, Media Art, Multimedia
Major Career
  • Former Chief Producer at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
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Sam Im Han

University of California Los Angeles, MFA

Specialization
  • Metaverse Convergence
Research Area
  • Media Art, Generative Art, 3D CGI, Game Engine
Major Career
  • Exhibited internationally across 18 countries
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Cinema, Animation & Media Studies
Jaecheol Moon

Chung-Ang University, Film Studies Ph.D

Specialization
  • Cinema Studies
Research Area
  • Cinema, Animation & Media Studies
Major Career
  • Former President of the Korean Society of Film Studies
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AI & Metaverse Technology
Joonki Paik

Northwestern University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D

Specialization
  • Image Engineering, AI Imaging
Research Area
  • AI Imaging, Computational Photography, Lightfield, Image
Major Career
  • Restoration and Enhancement, Computer Vision, 3D Vision President of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE)
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Young Ho Chai

Iowa State University, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D

Specialization
  • Image Engineering, AI Content
Research Area
  • HCI, Motion Capture, Motion Recognition, CG/VR, Metaverse, UI/UX, Computer Programming
Major Career
  • IITP(Institute of Information & Communication Technology Planning & Evaluation) Software StarLab
Young Bin Kim

Korea University, Program in Visual Information Processing Ph.D

Specialization
  • Natural Language Processing, Multimodal AI
Research Area
  • Natural Language Processing, Multimodal AI, Data Augmentation
  • Served as an Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
Major Career
Jong Won Choi

Seoul National University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D

Specialization
  • Image Engineering, AI Imaging
Research Area
  • Computer Vision, Deep Learning Models and Training Methods, AI for Content Creation
Major Career
  • Former Research Scientist at Samsung SDS
Hak Gu Kim

KAIST, Electrical Engineering Ph.D

Specialization
  • Metaverse Convergence
Research Area
  • 3D/VR, Generative AI, Multimoda
Major Career
  • Former Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL, Switzerland
Chan Ho Eom

Yonsei University, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Ph.D

Specialization
  • Metaverse Convergence
Research Area
  • Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent CCTV, Image/Video Retrieval, Generative AI
Major Career
  • Senior Researcher, AI Research Center, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
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Jihyoung Oh

KAIST, Electrical Engineering Ph.D

Specialization
  • Image Engineering, AI Content
Research Area
  • Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Generative AI, Image Processing
Major Career
  • Concurrent appointment as CAIO at inshorts, Seoul, South Korea
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Hyeokjun Kweon

KAIST, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D

Specialization
  • Metaverse Convergence
Research Area
  • Computer Vision, Data-efficient AI, Foundational AI
Major Career
  • Published 10+ first-author papers in top-tier CV/AI conference
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Jin Hwi Park

GIST, Artificial Intelligence Ph.D

Specialization
  • Metaverse Convergence
Research Area
  • Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Transdisciplinarity
Major Career
  • Awarded Samsung Human Tech Bronze Prize
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