Seong G.
Kong received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul,
Korea in 1982 and 1987, and
the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
in 1991. From 1992 to 2000, he was with Department of Electrical Engineering at
Soongsil
University,
Seoul, Korea as Assistant/Associate
Professor. He was chair of the department from 1998 to 2000. He was a visiting
researcher at the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH Aachen), Germany
in 1997 and 2000. During the years 2000-2001, he was with School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
as visiting scholar. From 2002 to 2007, he was with Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at The University of
Tennessee, Knoxville. Currently he is Associate Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department at Temple
University in Philadelphia. He has been collaborating with Life Science
Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Dr. Kong was Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent
Systems from 1996 to 1999. He served as Publication Chair of 5th
International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress in 1995, Publication
Chair and Organizing Committee of IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems in 1999. He
is an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks and an editorial board member of International Journal on Advances in
Computational Sciences and Technology. In 2000, Dr. Kong received Award for
Academic Excellence from Korea Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems Society. He
is listed in the United Who's Who in 2002. He received Professional Development
Award from the University of Tennessee in 2004, Best Paper Award from IEEE
International Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification beyond the Visible
Spectrum, Honorable Mention Paper Award from American Society of Agricultural
and Biological Engineers in 2005, and the Most Cited Paper Award for the
journal Computer Vision and Image
Understanding in 2007 and 2008. In 2006, he was appointed as ASEE/ONR
senior summer faculty research fellow at Naval
Research Laboratory in Washington,
DC. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Technical Committee Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He
served as Tennessee Chapter President and is a Councilor of Korean-American
Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA).
Dr. Kong has authored more than 100 refereed journal articles, conference
papers, and book chapters and gave several invited talks in the research areas
of image processing, pattern recognition, and intelligent systems.
