Lee Sang-hoon (photo), a professor at Yonsei University's Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, has been selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's most prestigious society in the fields of electrical, electronic, computer, and communication engineering. IEEE Fellows are the top 0.1% of members recognized for their outstanding contributions.
Professor Lee obtained his bachelor's degree from Yonsei University, his master's degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. After working at Bell Labs, he was appointed to Yonsei University in 2003 and currently serves as a full professor. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 and at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore in 2018. He is also a faculty member at Yonsei University's Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (AI-X).
Professor Lee is regarded as a global pioneer in quality assessment (Quality Assessment, QA) related to human visual perception and quantitative analysis of visual discomfort in 3D content. He has led research that improves video compression performance by up to 40% based on the characteristics of the human visual system. He is also conducting research that applies mechanisms from psychology, medicine, and cognitive sciences to engineering in order to quantitatively analyze visual discomfort in 3D images and depth-based QA.
Professor Lee serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and as a senior editorial board member for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.