Dr. Byung-Gyu Kim (Senior Member, IEEE) received a B.S. degree from Pusan National University, South Korea, in 1996, an M.S. degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1998, and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KAIST, in 2004. In March 2004, he joined the Real-Time Multimedia Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea, where he was a senior researcher. In ETRI, he developed many real-time video signal processing algorithms and patents and received the Best Paper Award in 2007. From February 2009 to February 2016, he was an Associate Professor with the Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Moon University, South Korea. In March 2016, he joined the Department of Information Technology (IT) Engineering, Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has published over 250 international journal articles, conference papers, and patents in his field. His research interests include image and video signal processing for content-based image coding, video coding techniques, 3D video signal processing, deep/reinforcement learning algorithms, embedded multimedia systems, and intelligent information systems for image signal processing.