Changkyu Choi
Vice President/Head of Computer Vision Lab. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics
Changkyu Choi is a Vice President and the director of the Computer Vision Lab. at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics.
He received his Ph.D from Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1999 for chaotic neural network with its application to bidirectional associative memory.
He pioneered the development of biometrics on the Samsung's smartphones.
The innovations include partial fingerprint recognition on Galaxy smartphones in 2015 which was inevitable for the launch of 'Samsung Pay' service, and facial recognition for unlocking smartphones in 2017 which has changed the landscape of mobile biometrics industry.
Dr. Choi is the recipient of the Distinguished Paper Award at the SID International Symposium in 2010, the Best Oral Paper Award at the IEEE Consumer Electronics Conference in 2012, and the Industrial Service Medal from the Government of Republic of Korea in 2018.