Dr. Yung-Cheol Byun received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Yonsei University in 1995 and 2001, respectively, and his B.S. from Jeju National University in 1993. He worked as a special lecturer at Samsung Electronics and SDS from 1998 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was a senior researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). He was promoted to join Jeju National University as an assistant professor in 2003. Now, he is a full professor in the Computer Engineering department at the university. His research interests include the areas of AI and machine learning, pattern recognition, blockchain and deep-learning-based applications, big data and knowledge discovery, time-series data analysis and prediction, image processing, medical image applications, and recommendation systems.