Inkyu An
Assistant Professor
in the Department of Software
at Kookmin University

About Me

  • I am Inkyu An, an assistant professor in the Department of Software at Kookmin University. I received my bachelor’s degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Dongguk University, my master’s degree from the Robotics Program at KAIST, and my Ph.D. from the School of Computing at KAIST. My advisor during my master’s and Ph.D. studies was Prof. Sung-eui Yoon from the School of Computing at KAIST. After graduating from KAIST, I worked as a researcher at the Integrated Intelligence Research Section of ETRI.
  • My research interests include robot audition (sound source localization, speech separation, automatic speech recognition) and multimodal embodied AI. Ultimately, my goal is to enable robots to understand all real-world sensory information (vision, hearing, touch, etc.) and take appropriate actions accordingly.

Experience

  • Mar. 2025 ~ Now Assistant Professor in the Department of Software at Kookmin University
  • Aug. 2023 ~ Feb. 2025 Researcher at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Education

  • Mar. 2018 ~ Aug. 2023 Ph.D., School of Computing, KAIST
    • Advisor: Sung-Eui Yoon
  • Mar. 2016 ~ Feb. 2018 M.S., Robotics Program, KAIST
    • Advisor: Sung-Eui Yoon
  • Mar. 2009 ~ Feb. 2016 B.S., Electronic Engineering, Dongguk Univ.

Publications

Patents

  • System and Method for Localization for Non-line-of-sight Sound Source
    Inkyu An, Doheon Lee, Sung-Woo Choi, and Sung-Eui Yoon
    US, Registration Number/Date (US11353581B2 / 2022-06-07)

  • System and Method for Localization for Non-line of-sight Sound Source Using Diffraction aware
    Inkyu An, Doheon Lee, Sung-Woo Choi, and Sung-Eui Yoon
    South Korea, Registration Number/Date (10-2174598-0000 / 2020-10-30)

  • System and Method for Sound Source Localization Using Reflection aware
    Inkyu An, Myungbae Son, and Sung-Eui Yoon
    South Korea, Registration Number/Date (10-2105752-0000 / 2022-04-22)

Media Coverages

  • Interview of Young researcher (신진연구자 인터뷰) in MERIC, 2020
    Link to the interview webpage

  • 2020 Annual R&D Report, KAIST
    Our back-propagation signal-based sound source localization techniques were chosen as research highlights of 2020 and covered in the Annual R&D Report

  • 2019 Annual R&D Report, KAIST
    Our diffraction- and reflection- aware sound source localization techniques were chosen as research highlights of 2019 and covered in the Annual R&D Report

Research Activities

  • A workshop at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019: Sound Source Localization and Its Application
    Main organizer: Sung-Eui Yoon,
    Co-organizer: Dinesh Manocha,
    Publicity chair: Inkyu An

  • A tutorial at KCC 2021: Sound Source Localization techniques for AI speakers and Robots
    (AI 스피커 및 로봇을 위한 소리 위치 추적 기술에 관한 튜토리얼)
    Speakers: Sung-Eui Yoon, Inkyu An, Taeyoung Kim

  • Teaching Assistant for Senior Data Scientist at Samsung SDS
    Lecturer: Sung-Eui Yoon,
    Teaching Assistants: Woobin Im, Jaeyoon Kim, Heechan Shin, Inkyu An
    Machine learning: Tree model and Recommendation, 2019-2020