People

CEO    Hong June Park, resume

Education

• Graduated Seoul National University, Dept. Electronics Engineering, B.S. 1979

• Graduated KAIST, Dept. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M.S. 1981

• Graduated University of California Berkeley, Dept. Electrcial Engineering and Computer Science, Ph.D. 1989

Career

• 1981 ~ 1984  CAD(computer aided design) Engineer, ETRI, Korea

• 1989 ~ 1991  TCAD (technology CAD) Senior Engineer, INTEL, Santa Clara, CA, USA

• 1991 ~2022   Professor, Dept. Electronics and Electrical Engineering, POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Korea

• 2022 Feb. ~ present  CEO, hearDL Ltd.

• 2022 ~ 2025   Special Assignment Professor (Dept. Electronics and Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Supervising 7 PhD  students now.

•  2022 ~ 2024   Head of Education Center for BioMedical Application of Semiconductor, POSTECH, established by Ministry of Science and ICT, Korean Government.

•  2003 ~ 2019   Technical program committee member of ISSCC, SoVC, A-SSCC

•  2018  Technical program committee chair of A-SSCC (Asian Solid State Circuit Conference)

•  2010 ~ 2017  Served as Board member, vice president of IEIE Korea

•  2009 ~ 2013  Editor-in-Chief JSTS IEIE (an SCIe journal)

Awards

•  2012  Hae Dong Academy Award, IEIE (Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers, Korea)

•  2016, 2018   Industry-University Excellent Patent Awards, SK Hynix,

•  2018  Industry Technology Award of the Month, Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology

Contacts

• Email :  hjp@hearDL.com, hjpark@postech.ac.kr 

• URL : http://www.hearDL.com  http://sites.google.com/view/analogiclab http://analog.postech.ac.kr/sub.php?code=CA1330055151347        

• YouTube : Hong june Park, follower > 1,940, views > 362,000, 849 movies on Electronics Circuits, analog integrated circuits, Deep learning, Lab experiments on Android programming     

Achievements

•  SIGMA-SPICE : Enhanced UC Berkeley SPICE3f circuit simulation program code in convergence and GUI and ported to Windows, released and used at POSTECH EE classes for > 20 years http://analog.postech.ac.kr/sub.php?code=CA1267600334235

•  Supervised 75 graduate students at POSTECH(43 Masters, 32 PhDs), supervising 7 PhD students now

•  Wrote 6 books on integrated circuits, http://analog.postech.ac.kr/sub.php?code=CA1232697549700 

•   Published 145 technical journal papers(137 International, 8 Korean)

•   Published 216 conference papers(117 International ,99 Korean)

•   Registered 122 patents(47 International, 75 Korean)

Patents related to hearDL product

• "Smartphone-based hearing aids", by Hong June Park et al, US Patent 10,993,046 B2, 20210427

• “Hearing aid attached to mobile electronic device”, by Hong June Park et al, US Patent 9392381, 20160712

• "Real-time voice recognition apparatus equipped with ASIC chip and smartphone", by Hong June Park et al, US Patent 11,183,177 B2, 20211123 (Patent rights: owned by POSTECH now, will transfer to hearDL)

Technology ready for practice

• Deep learning for denoising, Smartphone programming

• Signal processing of audio signals for hearing aids

• USB(universal serial bus) interface(software, hardware)

• Circuit design for audio signal processing (amp, delta sigma modulator, filter) 

• Hardware accelerator in FPGA for on-device automatic speech recognition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LB9H-uM-zU