Education
KAIST1, Taejon, Korea (Mar. 2002–Present, paused three years for military service2)
Major in Physics, Minor in Chemistry
U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (Jun. 2003–Aug. 2003)
Summer Session Enrollment
Courses Taken: Biophysical Chemistry (A+) and Discrete Mathematics (A–)
Gyeonggi Science High School, Suwon, Korea (Mar. 2000–Feb. 2002)
One year early graduation with Advanced Program in Biological Science
Thesis title: SegaPred, A Self-Evolutionary Genetic Algorithm Based Protein Conformation Predicting Program
Research Experience
Main article: Scientific Projects
University of Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, UK (Jul. 2008–Aug. 2008)
Visiting Research Student, with Dr. Pietro Cicuta and Dr. Young-Zoon Yoon
Research on the cell membrane edge detection (contour analysis) and mean square deviation of microspheres embedded in colloidal mixtures (video particle tracking microrheology).
Seoul C&J, Inc., Seoul, Korea (Aug. 2005–Jul. 2008)
Chief Software Developer and Researcher, as alternative military service
Research on medical physics and implementation of a radiation therapy planning system (CorePLAN) and an image fusion system (CoreFusion). 21 registered software.
Seoul C&J, Inc., Seoul, Korea (Jun. 2007–Jun. 2008)
Research Programmer
Participated in “Development of a Radiation Oncology Therapy Comprehensive Control System Based on Network” Project, a national project funded by Ministry of Science and Technology; developed a novel algorithm to reliably and efficiently connect numerous medical devices. Two pending Korea patents.
Seoul C&J, Inc., jointly with the Catholic University of Korea, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Seoul, Korea (Aug. 2005–Feb. 2007)
Research Programmer, with Prof. Tae-Suk Suh
Participated in “Development of New Technology for Radiation Medical Equipment” Project, a national project funded by Ministry of Science and Technology; implemented a beam modeling software and developed VTK-based 3D medical image visualization system.
Seoul C&J, Inc., Seoul, Korea (Aug. 2005–Mar. 2006)
Research Programmer
Participated in “Development of a updated technological radiation therapy planning system” Project, a national project funded by Ministry of Health and Welfare under Health and Medical Technology R&D Program; implemented an Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy software module.
KAIST, Taejon, Korea (Sep. 2001–Feb. 2002)
Research Student, with Prof. Jie-Oh Lee
Research on protein folding; developed a protein structure predicting software named SegaPred with Self-Evolutionary Genetic Algorithm, CHARMM, and NAMD. Thesis Title: SegaPred, A Self-Evolutionary Genetic Algorithm Based Protein Conformation Predicting Program.
KAIST, Taejon, Korea (Jan. 2003–Mar. 2003)
Research Student, with Prof. Yong-Hee Lee
Studied high performance parallel computing; parallelized SegaPred using hybrid model MPI making a high performance parallel-version protein structure predicting software that runs on MPI-based cluster computers.
CrystalGenomics, Inc., Taejon, Korea (Jul. 2002–Aug. 2002, Dec. 2003–Feb. 2004; part-time: Sep. 2002–Nov. 2003)
Intern, with Dr. Seonggu Ro
Research on proteomics and drug discovery; studied common properties of protein active sites and developed descriptors for drug candidate screening using Support Vector Machines (SVMs)3.
KAIST, Taejon, Korea (Sep. 2004–Feb. 2005)
Research Student, with Prof. Hawoong Jeong
Research on proteomics; developed software that predicts the active sites of proteins using SVMs. Paper: Enzyme Active Site Recognition Using Support Vector Machines4.
Conference Activities
| Nov. 2007 | Jae-Oh Choi and Ha Hong, “State-of-the-art Dose Computation Model and Seoul C&J Tools,” the 5th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society of Medical Physics for radiosurgery. |
| Aug. 2006 | Participated in the World Congress 2006; giving technical lectures in the Seoul C&J, Inc. company booth. |
| Feb. 2006 | Ha Hong, “Past, Present, and Future of CorePLAN — Implementation of Radiation Therapy Planning System,” oral presentation, the Next-Generation Radiation Therapy Planning System Development Symposium of Catholic Medical School. |
| Dec. 2005 | Ha Hong, “Development of a updated technological radiation therapy planning system,” poster presentation, Exhibition for Distinguished Projects of Ministry of Health and Welfare 2005. |
| Sep. 2005 | Participated in the 4th Japan-Korea Joint Meeting on Medical Physics and the 5th Asia-Oceania Congress of Medical Physics; giving technical lectures in the Seoul C&J, Inc. company booth. |
Patents and Intellectual Property in Korea
| Pending Patents | Ha Hong and Se-yong Kim, “Radiation treatment planning system and method for generating radiation treatment plan data” (Registration Number: 10–2008–0045622).
Sung-kyun Shin and Ha Hong, “Radiation therapy management system and method for managing radiation therapy” (Registration Number: 10–2008–0045158). |
| Registered Software5 | “Core 3D Collapsed Cone Convolution Computation Module” (2008–01–186–002313) “Core 3D Collapsed Cone Convolution Beam Modeling Module” (2008–01–186–002324) “Core 3D Hogstrom Computation Module” (2008–01–186–002326) “Core 3D Equivalent TAR Computation Module” (2008–01–186–002325) “Core 3D Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Engine” (2008–01–186–002328) “Core 3D Dose Calculation Engine Generation 2″ (2008–01–186–002312) “Core 3D Radiological Path Computation Module” (2008–01–186–002327) “Core 3D MLC Data Module” (2008–01–186–002287) “Core 3D MLC Constraint Computation Module” (2008–01–186–002288) “Core 3D Beam Data Manager” (2008–01–186–002289) “Core 3D Beam Data Manager Loader” (2008–01–186–002290) “Core 3D Plan Data Manager” (2008–01–186–002291) “Core 3D Beam Data Loader” (2008–01–186–002292) “Core 3D Report Printer” (2008–01–186–002293) “Core 3D VTK Window Manager” (2008–01–186–002295) “Core 2D Chart Calculator UI” (2008–01–186–002296) “Core 2D Dose Computation Module” (2008–01–186–002297) “Core 3D Import DICOM” (2008–01–186–002298) “CoreFusion–CorePLAN Image Database Linker” (2008–01–186–002299) “CoreFusion DICOM Loader” (2008–01–186–002301) “CoreFusion ITK Image Registration Module” (2008–01–186–002302) |
Publications
| 2002 | Ha Hong, “SegaPred, A Self-Evolutionary Genetic Algorithm Based Protein Conformation Predicting Program,” Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize 8 (2002). |
| 2005 | Ha Hong, “Enzyme Active Site Recognition Using Support Vector Machines,” Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize 11 (2005). |
| 2006 | Dong-ryul Han and Ha Hong (coauthor): 2006, The Royal Road to Korean Biology Olympiad, Sewha Publishing, Seoul (ISBN: 9788931705515). |
Major Awards
| 2008 | Samsung Scholarship (grants $50,000 annually up to five years for graduate studies) |
| 2005 | The 11th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize, Honorable Mention, Paper: Enzyme Active Site Recognition Using Support Vector Machines |
| 2004 | Korea’s Top 50 Gifted Student Award by the Gifted Student Education Team of the Ministry of Education |
| 2003 | Samsung Frontier Student |
| 2003 | KAIST Global Leader Scholarship |
| 2002 | The 8th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize, Silver Prize, High School Division, Thesis title: SegaPred, A Self-Evolutionary Genetic Algorithm based Protein Conformation Predicting Program |
| 2001 | The 5th Korean Biology Olympiad, Gold Prize |
| 2001 | The 13th National Scientific Competition, Silver Prize, Biology Division |
| 2001 | The 13th Gyeonggi-Province Scientific Competition, The First Place Prize, Biology Division |
| 2001 | International Biology Olympiad preselected candidate |
| 2000 | Gyeonggi Excellent Student Award, Grand Prix Prize |
| 2000 | The 46th National Science Fair, Diploma of Excellence, Agricultural Division |
| 2000 | The 1st National High School Student Scientific Creativeness Competition, Silver Prize |
| 1999 | The 3rd Korean Biology Olympiad, Gold Prize, Middle School Division |
| 1999 | The 11th National Scientific Competition, Bronze Prize, Middle School Division |
| 1999 | The 11th Gyeonggi-Province Scientific Competition, Gold Prize, Middle School Division |
| 1998 | The 15th Gyeonggi-Province Computer Science Olympiad, Diploma of Excellence |
| 1996 | The 1st Cyber-Kid Internet Search Competition by TriGem, Inc., Grand Prix Prize, Elementary School Division |
Full Curriculum Vitae
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