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Wonjun Hwang received both B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Korea University, Korea, in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 2016. From 2001 to 2008, he was a research staff member in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Korea, where he contributed to the promotion of Advanced Face Descriptor, Samsung and NEC joint proposal, to MPEG-7 international standardization in 2004. He proposed the SAIT face recognition engine which achieved the best results under the uncontrolled illumination situation at Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) and Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) in 2006. He developed the real-time face recognition engine for the Samsung cellular phone, SGH-V920, in 2006. From 2009 to 2011, he was a senior engineer in Samsung Electronics, Korea, where he worked on developing face and gesture recognition modules for Samsung humanoid robot, a.k.a RoboRay. In 2011, he rejoined the SAIT as a research staff member for face recognition. His research interests are in face recognition, computer vision and pattern recognition.

Listed skills include Face Recognition, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Algorithms, and 7 others.