Professor Lee, Heung No named as the Scientist of the Month in January

- develops a fast and easy technology to acquire information in high definition

- contributes to the development of high definition spectrometer, brain-computer interface system, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Minister ž Choi, Mun Kee) and National Research Foundation of Korea (Acting chairman ž Kim, Byoung Kuk) selected Professor Lee, Heung No (48) at the School of Information and Communications of GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, President ž Young Joon Kim) as the Scientist of the Month in January in recognition of his contributions to the development of the acquisition of high definition & low complexity information.

 

Sponsored by the Senior Researcher Support Project implemented by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and National Research Foundation of Korea, Professor Lee developed a fast and easy technology to acquire information through a new mathematical paradigm called compressed sensing based on coding theory.

 

The existing systems to process information & communication signals have a limitation that an enormous amount of data is needed in order to recover high definition signals as required data amount increases in proportion to the level of definition.

 

Professor Lee developed a technology to compress and recover a small amount of high definition data as a way of processing massive data. His research work drew keen attention from academia and his research paper was selected as the highlight thesis (December 2012) and the latest thesis (April 2013) by the Journal of Neural Engineering, Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics.

 

In particular, Professor Lee’s research outcome goes beyond the realm of basic research and is applicable to next generation collaborative communication, security communication, sensor network, flash memory, high definition spectrometer, brain-computer interface system, ultra-sonar imaging, fMRI and cell imaging, thereby contributing to finding solutions to big data processing, which is currently one of the key issues in the field of information and communication.

 

The merit of this research outcome is that the limitation of signal processing definition can be overcome by changing only software without replacing existing systems or hardware.

 

Over the past 5 years, 24 research papers on information processing theories produced by Professor Lee were published by SCI journals and his research work was included in the 100 most outstanding research works among R&D projects sponsored by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (2012) and the top 50 basic research works selected by National Research Foundation of Korea (2013).

 

The “Scientist of the Month” has been awarded since April 1997 for the purpose of boosting the moral of scientists and enhancing the science and technology mindset of the general public by identifying and awarding researchers who produce excellent R&D results, thus making significant contributions to the development of science and technology. Every month, one selected researcher is given an award and prize money from the Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning.