2. Major : Program in IT & Media Convergence Studies

1. Introduction :

IT & Media Convergence field create a variety of services and industries based on IT. The Graduate School of Inha University started the Program in IT & Media Convergence in 2011. Inha University, therefore, developed the Program in IT & Media Convergence at the graduate level to meet the requirements of the age. This Program includes Information and Telecommunications engineering, Industrial engineering, Business, Communication and Information and law etc.

Program in IT & Media Convergence includes all the related topics from the exploration of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Convergence field (for the short-term) to the development of the new and renewable theories which can produce synergy effect of IT Korea (for the long-term application), the enhancement of Mobile Convergence, the planning for IT & Media Convergence policies and Business Model and Technology. Graduates of this program will play a leading part in global sustainable future society.

2. Major : Program in IT & Media Convergence Studies

3. Faculty Members

1) Park, Jae Chon (박재천)

* Office : H-315

* Tel : +82-32-860-8425

* E-mail :

* Homepage : http://itip.inha.ac.kr

* Educational Background :

- ph. D : economics/University of Hawaii at Manoa / U. S. A.(1988)

- M.S. : O.R/ Georgia Institute of Technology / U. S. A(1982)

* Research Area :

- Information and Telecommunications Industry : New Media /Industrial Organization /Management and Business/ Regulation and Promotion Policy

- Information and Communication Technology Policy : Strategic Technology Management /Intellectual Property Management /R&D policy

- e-Commerce : Business Model /Privacy and securities /Technology and Standards

* Academic Works :

- ‘An analysis of new Spectrum management paradigms and policy proposal’, Korean Telecommunications Policy Review, 13(1), 2006.3.

- Astudy on Spectrum Management Policy, ETRI, 2005.12.

- ‘A Case Study on e-Collaboration of Federal Structure’, The Journal of Society for e- Business Studies 10(4), 2005.11.

2) Chang, Kyung Hi (장경희)

* Office: Room 313, Hi-tech Building

* Tel: +82-32-860-8422

* E-mail:

* Homepage: http://mobile.inha.ac.kr

* Educational Background:

- Ph. D: Texas A&M University / USA (1992)

- B.S. and M.S.: Yonsei University / Korea (1985 and 1987)

* Research Area:

- 3GPP LTE(-A) Systems Design, Small Cells & 5G Core Technologies,

Cognitive Radio, Cross-layer Design, and Mobile Ad-hoc Network

* Academic Works:

- ''Novel fairness improved radio resource management schemes for best-effort service in OFDMA systems,'' Springer - Wireless Personal Communications, vol.69, issue 4, pp.1503-1515, March 2013.

- "Tight lower bounds on achievable information rates for regularized Tomlinson-Harashima precoding in multi-user MIMO systems," IEICE Trans. on Commun., vol. E95-B, no.04, April 2012.

- "Fixed-complexity sphere encoder for multiuser MIMO systems," Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), vol. 13, no.01, pp. 63-69, Feb. 2011.

- "A novel two-step channel prediction technique for supporting adaptive transmission in OFDM/FDD system,'' IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, vo1. 57, no.1, pp. l88-193, Jan. 2008.

3) Park, Se Geun (박세근)

* Office : H-507

* Tel : +82-32-860-7434

* E-mail :

* Homepage : http://mparc.inha.ac.kr/semi/

* Educational Background :

- Ph. D : Electronics Eng/ Univ. of Texas at Austin/ USA

- M.S. : Electronics Eng/ Univ. of Texas at Austin/ USA

* Research Area : Nano semiconductor engineering/ TFT-LCD/ Nano imprinting process

* Academic Works :

- Effect of Time-Varying Axial Magnetic Field on Photoresist Ashing in an Inductively Coupled Plasma, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 1841~1844 (2001. 09).

- Dependence of Etch Selectivity of SiO2 Etching on the Axial Magnetic Field added to ICP, J. Korean Phys. Soc. Vol. 45, pp. S748~S751 (2004. 12).

- Passivation Effect during the C4F8 + N2 Etch Process for SiOCH Low-k Films, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. Vol. 52, pp. 1786~1791 (2008. 06).

4) Park, In Kyu (박인규)

* Office : H-509

* Tel : +82-32-860-9190

* E-mail :

* Homepage : http://image.inha.ac.kr

* Educational Background :

- Ph. D : Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / Seoul National

University/ KOREA

- M.S. : Control and Instrumentation Engineering/ Seoul National University / KOREA

* Research Area : Computer Graphics and Vision/ Multimedia Applications

* Academic Works :

- "Design and performance evaluation of image processing algorithms on GPUs,"

IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 21, 2010.

- "Interactive motion photography from a single image," The Visual Computer, vol.

26, 2010

- "Fast and automatic object pose estimation for range images on the GPU,"

Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 21, 2010.

5) Lee, Jae Won (이재원)

* Office : 2N366D

* Tel : +82-32-860-7382

* E-mail :

* Homepage : http://ebiz.inha.ac.kr

* Educational Background :

- Dr. Ing. : Industrial Engineering /Ecole Centrale de Nantes / France

- M.S. : Industrial Engineering / Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) / Korea

* Research Area :, Electronic commerce, Business Modeling for Knowledge Transaction, 3D Printing Service

* Academic Works :

- A Study on the Development of the Business Model of Knowledge Transaction for 3D Printing Service Market, The Journal of Internet Electronic Commerce Research, 2014.9(to be published)

- A Study on the Real Time Marketing Service based on HTML5 for Traditional Marketplace, Proceedings of Korea Society of IT Service 2013 Fall Conference, 2013.11

- A Study on Media Platform System based on HTML5 for Public Media Access Development, Proceedings of 2013 Korea Information Processing Society Fall Conference, 2013.11

- A Study of Video-based Social Networking System with QR code-on the application of the Invitation Event, Journal of Korea E-Commerce Research Academy, 2011.12

- A Study on the Marketing of Exhibition with QR Code of Smart Phone, Journal of Korea E-Commerce Research Academy, 2010.12

6) Lee, Woo key (이우기)

* Office : 2N481

* Tel : +82-32-860-7371

* E-mail :

* Homepage : http://informatics.inha.ac.kr/

* Educational Background :

- M.S.E. : Computer Science / Carnegie-Mellon Univ. / USA

- Ph. D : Industrial Engineering / Seoul National Univ. / Korea

- M.S.: Industrial Engineering / Seoul National Univ. / Korea

- B.S.: Industrial Engineering / Seoul National Univ. / Korea

* Research Area : Database, Web Informatics, Data Mining, Social Network, Patent Information

* Academic and Professional Experience

- Executive Committee member of IEEE TCDE

- Associate Editor: World Wide Web Journal

- Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Information Technology and Architecture

- Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Big Data Service

- Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Big Data Service

- Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of British Colombia

- Gov. Advisory Board: Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Ministry of Health and Welfare.

- Positions Held:

- International Board Members: Publicity chair (ASONAM), Tutorial chair (BigComp), Panel chair (Dasfaa), Org. chair (DBSW), Publicity chair (EDB), Reg. Chair (ICDE), General chair (ITA), Program chair (KJDB), Reg. chair (VLDB), Org. chair (SDSM), etc.

- Program Committee Chair, international conferences including APweb, BSI, BWCCA, C3S2E, CIKM, Dasfaa, IEEE DEST, DBSW, EDB, ITA, iiWAS, ODBASE, OTM, FTRA, KJDB, ACM SOC, VLDB, WAIM, etc.

* Patents (selected):

More than 60 Patents including Web site visualization technique, K10-2000-6887

* Honors and Awards:

Best Paper Award: IEEE TCSC, 2012.

Best Paper Award (more than 20) including KORMS 2006 & 2010, KCC 2012, Kosiper 2013-14

* Books & Book Chapter:

"Approximate Query Answering with Knowledge Hierarchy," Principle Advancements in Database Management Technologies, ISSN:978-1-60566-904-5, 2009. USA

Management Information System, Park-Young-Sa Publishing Co., Seoul. Korea.

Database Modeling, Miraecom Publishing Co., Seoul. Korea.

Visual Basic as a Web Language, Deayong-Sa Publishing Co., Seoul. Korea.

* Academic Works (selected):

- Patent Information Retrieval with Keyword Priority, The Computer Journal, 2014.

- Graph based Ranked Answers for Keyword Graph Structure, NEW GENERATION COMPUTING, 2013.

- Searching Steiner trees for web graph query, COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, 2012.

- Retrieving keyworded subgraphs with graph ranking score, EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, 2012.

- Mobile Web Navigation in Digital Ecosystems Using Rooted Directed Trees, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, 2011.
- TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURING WEB MILESTONES BASED ON ARC RANKING METHODS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE COMPUTING INFORMATION AND CONTROL, 2011.

Full version will be found http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/l/Lee:Wookey.html

7) Choi, Yong Rok (최용록)

* Office : 6-409

* Tel : +82-32-860-7760

* E-mail :

* Homepage : http://

* Educational Background :

- Ph. D : International Economics / Univ. of Cincinnati / USA

- M.A. : Economics / Univ. of Cincinnati / USA

* Research Area : Global e-Trade & e-Business, International Transportation & Logistics

* Academic Works :

- Principles of International Transportation & Logistics, Inha Univ. Press, 2002

- Principles of Electronic Commerce and e-Trade, Doonam Press, 2003

- Business Letters in International Trade, Bomyoung Press, 2006

8) Sohn, Dong Won (손동원)

* Office : 6-502

* Tel : +82-32-860-7746

* E-mail :

* Educational Background

- B.A. Korea University, Seoul, Korea, 1983

- M.S. Korea University, Seoul, Korea, 1985

- Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia, U.S.A, 1993

* Professional Background

- Visiting Professor, University of California-Davis (UC-Davis)

- Visiting Professor, University of LeHavre (France)

- Research Fellow, KISDI (Korea)

* Publications for past 5 years

- "Universities, Clusters, and Innovation Systems: The Case of Seoul, Korea," World Development, 2007, Vol.35, No.6, pp.991-1004.

- Co-evolution of Start-ups and Ecology in Korean High Tech Business, SERI Press, 2007

"Institutional Embededness and Chaebol Restructuring in the Korean Economy," Pacific Focus, 2002, Vol.17, No.1, pp.47-66.

9) Kim, Dae Ho(김대호)

* Office: 6-210

* Tel: +82-32-860-8793

* E-mail:

* Homepage: http://

* Educational Background:

- Ph. D: Communication / Univ. of Birmingham / UK

- M.S., BA,: Communication / Seoul National Univ. / Korea

* Professional Background

- Senior Research Fellow, Korea Information Society Development Institute, Korea

- Visiting Professor, Columbia University (USA)

- Adviser to the President of Korea,National Economic Advisory Council

* Academic Works

- ICT Ecosystem, Communications Books, 2014

- The Rise and Fall of Social Networking Sites: A Comparative Study of Cyworld and Facebook, Journalism and Mass Communication, Vol.4, No.3, 2014

- Understaing Creative Economy Policy, Communications Books, 2014

-New Regulatory Institution for the Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunications: A Korean Case, Government Information Quarterly, Vol.28, No.2, 2011

- Widening universal service in Korea to include broadband and mobile communications, Info : the Journal of Policy, Regulation and Strategy for Telecommunications, Information and Media, Vol.10, No.5/6, 2008

10) Wang, Chi Hyoun (왕치현)

* Office : 5-S302

* Tel : +82-32-860-8041

* E-mail :

* Educational Background :

- Ph. D : Literature/ University of Heidelberg/ Germany

* Research Area : Performing art theory

* Director of the Psychology of Cultural Management Research Institute

11) Kim, Youn Sung (김연성)

* Office : 6-412

* Tel : +82-32-860-7759

* E-mail :

* Educational Background

- B.A. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1986

- M.S. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Major: Operations Management), 1989

- Ph. D. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Major: Operations Management), 1997

- M.A. Inha University, Incheon, Korea (Major: Archaeology as Interdisciplinary Science), 2013

* Academic and Professional Experience

- Dean, Office of LINC(Leaders in Industry-university Cooperation) (2012.4~2014.6)

- Dean, Office of Strategic Planning & Budgeting (2012.4~2013.1)

- Dean, Office of Research and Business Cooperation (2011.2~2012.3)

- Advisor, Incheon Technopark, Incheon, Korea (2009.8~2010.12)

- Visiting Professor, Department of Information and Operations Management, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (2007.2~2008.1)

- Vice Dean, Management Assistance Office, Inha-Industry Partnership Institute (2004.8~2006.7)

- Marketing Director, E-Biz Holdings (2000)

- Director, Entrepreneurial Research Center, Kookmin Bank Research Institute (1997.3~1998.2)

- Visiting Scholar, Department of Information and Operations Management, School of Business, University of Southern California (1994.7~1995.9)

- Marketing Staff, Samsung Mulsan General Trading Company (1986)

* Teaching Interests

- Operations Management, Service Operations Management, Quality Management, Service Quality Management, Purchasing Management, Supply Chain Management

* Research Interests

- Service Performance Evaluation and Improvement, Strategic Operations Management, Business Excellence Model, Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction, Service Design

* Selective Recent Publications (2010-2014)

- “A Case Study on the Quality Evaluation of the Leading Small Domestic Appliances in the Global Market - Focusing on the Food Dehydrator -”, Journal of Korea Society of Quality Management, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2014.06, pp.253-264.

- “A Basic Study on Collaborative Plan of Translational Service Research for Accelerating New Drug Development”, Journal of Service Management Society of Korea, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2014.03, pp.283-306.

- “An Exploratory Research on Moderate Effect of Customization and R&D Strategy to Relationship between Quality Management Practices and Performances”, Journal of Korea Society of Quality Management, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2013.12, pp.611-622.

- “What does firm make sustainable? - Focused on Faber-Castell in 250 Years of the Writing Instrument History -”, Journal of Service Management Society of Korea, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2013.11, pp.195-213.

- “An Exploratory Research on Moderate Effect of Supply Chain CSR and Co-Existence Activities to Relations Between Supplier Development and Performances”, Journal of Korea Society of Quality Management, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2013.03, pp.39-52.

- “A Study on the Effects of the Port Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction and Performance in Incheon Port”, Journal of Korea Society of Quality Management, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2012.12, pp.543-558.

- “How to be successful and sustainable? An Analysis of Incheon Port Authority by CC2 Model”, Journal of Service Management Society of Korea, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2011.11, pp.175-193.

- “The Evolution of Research on Quality: Papers Published in Journal of the Korean Society for Quality Management (2007-2011)”, Journal of Korea Society of Quality Management, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2012.06, pp.94-105.

- “A Study on the Competitive Analysis of Strategic Service Visions in Fast Fashion Business”, Journal of the Korean Management Engineers Society, Vol.17, No.1, 2012.03, pp.181-193.