People

Sungbae Cho received the B.S. degree in computer science from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Taejeon, South Korea. He was an Invited Researcher with the Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) Institute, Kyoto, Japan, from 1993 to 1995; and a Visiting Scholar with the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia, in 1998. He was also a Visiting Professor with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, from 2005 to 2006; and King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2013. Since 1995, he has been a Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, and a Underwood Distinguished Professor, since 2021. He has published over 230 journal articles and over 680 conference papers. His research interests include neural networks, pattern recognition, intelligent man–machine interfaces, evolutionary computation, and artificial life. He was a recipient of the Richard E. Merwin Prize from the IEEE Computer Society, in 1993. He received several distinguished investigator awards from the Korea Information Science Society, in 2005, and the GaheonSindoricoh, in 2017. He was also a recipient of the Service Merit Medal from the Korean Government, in 2022.