Byung-Woo Hong

  Biographical Information
 
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EDUCATION
     University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. (Oct. 2001-Dec. 2004)
     Department of Engineering Science
     D.Phil., Information Engineering
     Dissertaion: "Segmentation, Shape and Registration:
                       Application to Mammography"

     Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (Oct. 1999-Sep. 2001)
     Department of Computer Science
     M.Sc., Computer Science
     Dissertaion: "Feature Selection for Sub-ordinate Classification"
 
HONOURS AND AWARDS
     During my Ph.D. Studies
     1. British Government: ORS Award. 2001-2004
     2. Oxford University Press: Clarendon Bursary. 2001-2005
     (Full fellowship: Best scholarship for non-EU students in Oxford)
     3. UCLA: Research fund. 2003-2004

     During my master Studies
     4. Israel Government: Israel Government Scholarship. 1999-2001
     5. Weizmann Institute of Science: Full Fellowship. 1999-2001
 
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
     Journal Reviewer
     IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
     IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
     Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)

     Conference Programme Committee
     British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2006, 2007

     Conference Reviewer
     International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009
     European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2006
     International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervension (MICCAI) 2005, 2006
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
     University of California Los Angeles, L.A., U.S.A.
     Department of Computer Science, Jan. 2009-Feb. 2009
     Host: Prof. Stefano Soatto

     University of California Los Angeles, L.A., U.S.A.
     Department of Computer Science, Jun. 2008-Aug. 2008
     Host: Prof. Stefano Soatto

     University of California Los Angeles, L.A., U.S.A.
     Department of Computer Science, Apr. 2005-Feb. 2008
     Advisor: Prof. Stefano Soatto

     RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Hirosawa, Japan
     Laboratory for Integrative Neural Systems, Jul. 2006-Aug. 2006
     Advisor: Dr. Manabu Tanifuji

     University of California Los Angeles, L.A. U.S.A.
     Department of Computer Science, Aug. 2003-Jul. 2004
     Advisor: Prof. Stefano Soatto

     University of California Irvine, Irvine. U.S.A.
     Department of Computer Science, Jun. 2003-Aug. 2003
     Advisor: Prof. Jack Sklansky

     Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
     Department of Computer Science, Dec. 2002-Jan. 2003
     Advisor: Prof. Shimon Ullman