Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (2014)
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (2014)
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (2007)
Hyun Soo Park joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 2016 as an assistant professor. He is also the CEO and CTO of Playtag, Inc. In addition to teaching at the University, Park serves as a visiting professor for the Samsung AI Research New York. Prior to coming to Minnesota, he served in a number of research positions with the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft, and Disney. Park won the McKnight Presidential Fellow Award in 2022 and the NSF Career Award in 2019.
Park's research aims to develop computational social intelligence—an ability to perceive, model, and predict such visual social signals. His current research interests include human interaction by sending visible social signals, such as gaze movements, facial expressions, and body gestures.
Research Areas
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Current Research
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Ph.D. Graduates
Tien Do (2023; co-advised with Stergios Roumeliotis); Jae Shin Yoon (2022); Zhijie Zhu (2020; Michael McAlpine).
Three CS&E papers accepted to NeurIPS 2021
Researchers use 3D motion capture to study Minnesota Zoo monkeys
CS&E wins best paper honorable mention at CVPR 2021
U of M part of Toyota Research Institute’s new initiative
Robotics faculty members awarded new research grants
New discovery allows 3D printing of sensors directly on expanding organs
Park receives NSF CAREER Award
2022: McKnight Presidential Fellow
2019: National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER Award)
Selected Grants
RI Small: Learning 3D Equivariant Visual Representation for Animals
Park, H. S.; National Science Foundation; 10/1/22 - 9/30/25
Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Dense 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Actors in Natural Environments using Multiple Flying Cameras
Park, H. S. & Isler, V. I.; National Science Foundation; 10/1/20 - 9/30/24
CAREER: Raster Multiview Algebra for Unlabeled Visual Data Exploration
Park, H. S.; National Science Foundation; 9/1/19 - 8/31/24