Hyun Seung Yang is a full and tenured Professor of Dept. of Computer Science and Director of AIM (AI & Media) Lab at KAIST. He was a Dean of Research of KAIST from 2005 to 2010.

He got his Ph.D. Degree from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette  Indiana  USA. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) and Vice President of Int’l VSMM (Virtual Systems and Multimedia) Society and Vice Chairman of IFIP TC 14. He was a Governing Board Member of IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition) and Vice Presidents of KIISE (Korea Institute of Information Science and Engineering), KMMS(Korea Multimedia Society) and KRS (Korea Robotics Society). His research interests include VR/AR, Human Robotics, Computer Vision, Ubiquitous/Wearable Computing,  Media Art and Technology.