CV

Curriculum Vitae of Kyung Hyun Lee — AI Researcher in Physiological and Clinical Time-Series Learning · PhD Student in Digital Health · Co-founder & CEO of BreathYou Co., Ltd.

Contact Information

Name Kyung Hyun Lee
Professional Title AI Researcher in Physiological and Clinical Time-Series Learning
Email lkh256@gmail.com
Location Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Professional Summary

AI researcher developing and evaluating machine learning models for physiological signals and longitudinal clinical data, with particular attention to external validation and continuous clinical monitoring. PhD student in Digital Health at SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, and AI researcher at AITRICS. Co-founder & CEO of BreathYou Co., Ltd.

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Seoul, South Korea

    Lecturer
    University of Seoul
    Faculty appointment in the Department of Sport Science, teaching the undergraduate course Exercise and Digital Healthcare.
    • Designed and teach Exercise and Digital Healthcare, a fourth-year major elective (Fall 2026)
  • 2025 - present

    South Korea

    Co-founder & CEO
    BreathYou Co., Ltd.
    Digital health startup focused on allergy and respiratory AI, developing DeepBreath CDSS and MediPipe.
    • Selected for 2025 Pre-startup Package
    • Incorporated on 5 August 2026
    • DeepBreath CDSS: Clinical decision support for predicting pulmonary function decline trajectories
    • MediPipe: OCR/NLP pipeline for medical record processing
  • 2022 - present

    Seoul, South Korea

    Researcher (2024 – present) · Industrial Technical Personnel — Alternative Military Service (2022 – 2024)
    AITRICS
    Medical data (RWD) cleaning, analysis pipeline construction, predictive model development, and external validation. Contributed to the cardiac arrest early-warning model that obtained MFDS (Korean FDA) approval as an AI medical device, and currently leading product development of a self-developed AKI prediction model toward MFDS approval.
    • Research design for clinical data analysis projects
    • Data extraction and cleaning from multi-center hospitals
    • Automated data analysis pipelines using Airflow
    • Deep learning-based clinical time-series prediction models
    • Clinical simulation-based model evaluation and survival analysis
    • Cardiac arrest prediction model — supported MFDS approval as an AI medical device
    • AKI prediction model — developed the model and currently leading productization toward MFDS approval
  • 2022 - 2022

    South Korea

    Biosignal AI Research Engineer
    Exosystems
    Deep learning-based EMG modeling for Muscle Quality monitoring.
    • RNN, CRNN-based Muscle Quality time-series prediction model development
    • Clinical validation-oriented AI model evaluation
  • 2021 - 2022

    Incheon, South Korea

    Researcher
    Incheon National University
    • EMG-based real-time hand gesture recognition algorithm R&D
    • Deep learning-based ECG modeling for autonomic nervous system monitoring
  • 2018 - 2021

    Seoul, South Korea

    Researcher
    Samsung Medical Center & SAIHST
    EHR data extraction and analysis from CDW; development of ML-based CDSS.
    • Data cleaning and health checkup database construction
    • Text mining of unstructured medical records
    • Statistical analysis and predictive/diagnostic model development

Education

  • 2026 - present

    Seoul, South Korea

    PhD Student
    Sungkyunkwan University (SAIHST)
    Digital Health
    • Advisor: Prof. Byung-Jae Lee
    • Research on Transformer-based trajectory models of respiratory health
  • 2019 - 2021

    Seoul, South Korea

    Master of Science
    Sungkyunkwan University (SAIHST)
    Digital Health
    • Advisor: Prof. Mira Kang
    • M Lab. — Statistical analysis and predictive model development using medical big data
  • 2014 - 2019

    Incheon, South Korea

    Bachelor of Science
    Incheon National University
    Electronic Engineering & Computational Neuroscience
    • Advisor: Prof. Sangwon Byun
    • Bioelectronics Lab. — Biosignal (ECG, EMG) data collection, signal analysis, and real-time prediction model development

Teaching

University of Seoul, Department of Sport Science: Lecturer · Exercise and Digital Healthcare, fourth-year undergraduate elective (Fall 2026)
University of Seoul, Department of Sport Science: Invited seminar · Healthcare industry, two hours, hosted by Prof. Sae Young Jae (2024)
Incheon National University: Guest lecture · Student-Designed Convergence Major, one hour (2024)

Awards

  • 2026
    SPRINT Next Unicorn's Day — Encouragement Award (Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation Chairperson's Award)
    Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation
    • Startup club showcase of the Laboratory-Specialized Startup-Leading University (SPRINT) program
    • MediPipe: on-premise medical data infrastructure software that turns in-hospital test results and clinical records into AI-ready data
  • 2026
    Pre-TeX-Corps Business Plan Presentation — Excellence Award
    Sungkyunkwan University, Laboratory Startup Innovation Center
    • Business plan presentation for the Ministry of Science and ICT TeX-Corps laboratory startup exploration program
    • MediPipe: on-premise medical data infrastructure software that turns in-hospital test results and clinical records into AI-ready data
  • 2026
    Lab Startup Competition — Excellence Award
    Sungkyunkwan University, Start-up Support Foundation
    • University-wide competition among Sungkyunkwan University graduate-student laboratory startup clubs
    • MediPipe: on-premise medical data infrastructure software that turns in-hospital test results and clinical records into AI-ready data
  • 2026
    Consortium Lab-based Startup Camp — Excellence Award
    Sungkyunkwan University, Startup-Centered University program
    • Consortium competition among laboratory startup teams from universities across the Seoul metropolitan area
    • MediPipe: the data infrastructure that lets hospitals use AI
  • 2022
    Human Understanding AI Paper Competition — Top 7 & ETRI Director's Award
    ETRI, Ministry of Science and ICT
    • Multimodal Attention-based Korean emotion recognition model combining RoBERTa (Text) and Wav2vec 2.0 (Audio)
  • 2021
    OCR AI Training Data Hackathon — Excellence Award
    Ministry of Science and ICT, NIA
    • AI-Assisted OCR Annotation System for pharmaceutical products (CRAFT-based)
  • 2021
    Medical Information Analysis Expert Advanced Course — Grand Prize
    Ministry of Health and Welfare, Asan Medical Center
    • Real-time BIS prediction model using intraoperative EEG data (25-second lookahead)
  • 2020
    Medical AI Expert Training Course — Excellence Award
    Korea Human Resource Development Institute for Health & Welfare
    • 30-day mortality and ICU admission prediction model using preoperative and intraoperative vital signs
  • 2018
    STAR Program Paper Presentation — Grand Prize
    DSP-IN-U Smart Device Talent Development Program
    • EMG-based real-time hand gesture prediction model development

Academic Service

Journal Reviewer: Computers in Biology and Medicine (4), Frontiers in Medicine (2), Frontiers in Digital Health, Frontiers in Network Physiology, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Information Processing & Management · 2026–present
Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS Workshop: Responsible Communication of Machine Learning Research in Biomedicine (RCMLR) · 2026

Certificates

  • Medical Information Analysis Expert Advanced Course - Korea Human Resource Development Institute for Health & Welfare, Asan Medical Center (2021)
  • Google Developer Machine Learning Boot Camp - Google Developers (2021)
  • Medical AI Expert Training Course - Korea Human Resource Development Institute for Health & Welfare (2020)

Skills

Programming & ML (Expert): Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn
Data & Database (Expert): SQL (PostgreSQL), Airflow, Data Pipeline
Statistics & Analysis (Advanced): R, Survival Analysis, Clinical Statistics
Web Development (Intermediate): FastAPI, Flask, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, AWS

Languages

Korean : Native speaker
English : Professional working proficiency

References

  • Prof. Sangwon Byun

    Incheon National University, Department of Electronic Engineering; Bachelor’s advisor (Bioelectronics Lab. · Scholar)

  • Prof. Mira Kang

    Samsung Medical Center; Master’s advisor at SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University

  • Prof. Jin-Young Lee

    Samsung Medical Center, Health Promotion Center

  • Prof. Byung-Jae Lee

    Samsung Medical Center, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; Doctoral advisor at SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University

  • Prof. Sae Young Jae

    University of Seoul, Department of Sport Science; research collaborator