Byung-Woo Hong Resume

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
     1. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)

     Conference Programme Committee
     1. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2006

     Conference Reviewer
     1. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2006
     2. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervension (MICCAI) 2005, 2006

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

     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