Chulhong Kim
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Dr. Chulhong Kim currently holds Namgo Chair Professorship, Young Distinguished Professorship, and Mueunjae Chair Professorship of School of Convergence Science and Technology (Head), Convergence IT Engineering (Department Chair) and Medical Science and Engineering (Program Chair) at Pohang University of Science and Technology in Republic of Korea. He is the Director of Medical Device Innovation Center supported by Ministry of. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Opticho Inc., a spinoff company to commercialize the preclinical and clinical photoacoustic imaging systems. He was the recipients of the 2022 Korean Presidential Award from Ministry of SMEs and Startups, the 2020-2021 IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer, the 2017 IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, etc. His group’s works have been selected for the 1st positions of the USenhance and TDSC-ABUS Challenges in the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023), the 2022 Photoacoustics Journal Elsevier Best Paper Award in Photons Plus Ultrasound Conference (Photonics West, SPIE). He is also elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) and Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, SPIE, OPTICA, and AIMBE.