🎓 Education
Professor Choi holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, USA (1991), where he was advised by Prof. Adam W. Bojanczyk. He completed his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, USA (1986) and earned his B.S. in Control & Instrumentation Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea (1984). His academic journey reflects a strong foundation in engineering, computing, and system design, which has shaped his impactful research.
👨🏫 Experience
Professor Choi has been serving at Soongsil University, Korea, since March 1995, contributing significantly to research and curriculum development. He was a Visiting Scholar (2001–2002) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), USA, where he worked on cluster computing and software tools. Earlier, he served as a Research Assistant Professor (1994–1995) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, collaborating with Prof. Jack J. Dongarra on advanced computing frameworks. He also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (1992–1994) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, under Dr. David W. Walker, contributing to mathematical and computational sciences.
🏅 Awards and Honors
Professor Choi’s excellence in research and service has been recognized with prestigious national and academic awards. He was honored with the Korean Presidential Red Medal (2015) for his outstanding contributions to technology and computing research. Additionally, he received a Commendation from the Minister of Environment (2011) for his significant work in computing applications and environmental technology solutions.
🔬 Research Focus
Professor Choi’s research primarily focuses on High-Performance Computing, Grid and Cluster Computing, System Software, and Font Engineering. His contributions to CJK font development using software tools have been widely recognized in multilingual text processing. His expertise extends to algorithmic optimization for supercomputing environments, parallel computing, and deep learning applications in font synthesis. He has played a key role in developing scalable computing frameworks, making significant strides in machine learning-based font generation and computational optimization for modern processors.
Conclusion
Professor Jaeyoung Choi is a leading expert in High-Performance Computing, System Software, and Font Engineering. His extensive research contributions, pioneering work in font generation using AI, and optimization of computational frameworks have positioned him as a key figure in the field. With numerous awards, prestigious research collaborations, and highly cited publications, he continues to shape the future of computing, font technology, and supercomputing applications. His work remains instrumental in advancing both theoretical and applied computing methodologies. 🚀
📚 Publications
Patch-Font: Enhancing Few-Shot Font Generation with Patch-Based Attention and Multitask Encoding – Applied Sciences, 2025 🔗
A Hybrid Approach to Modeling Heart Rate Response for Personalized Fitness Recommendations Using Wearable Data – Electronics, 2024 🔗
Revisiting the Performance Optimization of QR Factorization on Intel KNL and SKL Multiprocessors – Journal of Supercomputing, 2024 🔗
Learning Font-Style Space Using Style-Guided Discriminator for Few-Shot Font Generation – Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 🔗
FontFusionGAN: Refinement of Handwritten Fonts by Font Fusion – Electronics, 2023 🔗
Exploiting Mixing Regularization for Truly Unsupervised Font Synthesis – Pattern Recognition Letters, 2023 🔗
Real-time High-Quality Font Generation with Conditional Font GAN – Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 🔗