Presenter

Prof. Jinah Park earned a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1988, followed by an M.S.E. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1996) in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently leads the Computer Graphics and Visualization (CGV) research laboratory at the School of Computing, KAIST. Her primary academic contributions are in medical imaging, where she developed a computational method for analyzing 3D cardiac motion from MR tagging data. Her work on deformable models for morphometric studies of aging brain structures was recognized as one of KAIST’s Top 10 Research Achievements of 2017. Additionally, she focuses on understanding 3D interaction behaviors in virtual reality environments and developing haptic rendering algorithms for virtual simulations. Prof. Park has received the Prime Minister’s Commendation and Citation Ribbon (2017), as well as the Science and Technology Medals of Honor (2024) from the Korean government. She served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Haptics from 2018 to 2024 and has been a member of the Board of Directors of MICCAI since 2022.