Chanwoo Kim

Professor, Korea University

Chanwoo Kim is a professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Korea University. He has also been serving as as an independent director at Hyundai- WIA since March 2025. Till 2023, he has been a corporate Executive Vice President (EVP) at Samsung Research leading the Language and Voice Team (LVT). He joined Samsung Research as a corporate Vice President (VP) heading the speech processing Lab in Feb. 2018. He has been leading research on end-to-end speech recognition, end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Language Modeling (LM), speech enhancement, key-word spotting, and so on at Samsung Research. Most of these research outcomes have been commercialized for Samsung products. He was a senior software engineer at the Google speech team between Feb. 2013 and Feb. 2018. He worked on acoustic modeling for speech recognition systems and enhancing noise robustness using deep learning techniques. While working for Google, he contributed to data-augmentation and acoustic modeling of Google speech recognition systems. He contributed to the commercialization of various Google AI speakers and Google speech recognition systems. He was a speech scientist at Microsoft from Jan. 2011 to Jan. 2013. Dr. Kim received his Ph. D. from the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Dec. 2010. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Dr. Kim’s doctoral research was focused on enhancing the robustness of automatic speech recognition systems in noisy environments. Between 2003 and 2005 Dr. Kim was a Senior Research Engineer at LG Electronics, where he worked primarily on embedded signal processing and protocol stacks for multimedia systems. Prior to his employment at LG, he worked for EdumediaTek and SK Teletech as an R&D engineer.