Senior Vice President & Head of Software Solution Lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics.

Dr. Eunsoo Shim is a senior vice president and the head of Software Solution Lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics. He has been leading research & development of a wide range of artificial intelligence technologies including speech recognition, face recognition, autonomous driving, and neural processors at Samsung. He has been leading the development of noise-resilient top-notch speech recognition technologies that are deployed in Samsung products since 2015. He has been also leading the development of robust face recognition algorithms deployed in Samsung’s smart phones since 2017. He is also leading the development of autonomous driving technologies that passed the driving test supervised by a government agency and have been used for test driving on public roads in Korea since 2017. He worked on natural language analysis, wireless Internet protocols, multimedia networking technologies in the US before joining Samsung. He earned a Ph.D. and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering, respectively in 2004 and 1998 from Columbia University in NYC and a M.S. and a B.S. in Physics in 1991 and 1989 respectively from Seoul National University.