People

CEO Hong June Park

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 LLC.
2022 ~ 2025 Special Assignment Professor (Dept. Electronics and Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Supervised 7 PhD students.
2022 ~ 2025 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

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
Supervised 82 graduate students at POSTECH(43 Masters, 39 PhDs)
Wrote 6 books on integrated circuits
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 hearDELIGHT 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 noise blocking, 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

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