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Curriculum Vitae of Kyung Hyun Lee — AI Researcher, PhD Student in Digital Health, Co-founder & CEO of BreathYou.
Contact Information
| Name | Kyung Hyun Lee |
| Professional Title | Clinical AI Researcher |
| lkh256@gmail.com |
Professional Summary
PhD student in Digital Health at SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University. AI researcher working on clinical time-series deep learning, medical AI regulatory pathways, and respiratory digital health. Co-founder & CEO of BreathYou.
Experience
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2025 - present South Korea
Co-founder & CEO
BreathYou
Digital health startup focused on allergy and respiratory AI, developing DeepBreath CDSS and MediPipe.
- Selected for 2025 Pre-startup Package
- DeepBreath CDSS: Clinical decision support for predicting pulmonary function decline trajectories
- MediPipe: OCR/NLP pipeline for medical record processing
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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
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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
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2021 - 2022 Incheon, South Korea
Research Fellow
Incheon National University
- EMG-based real-time hand gesture recognition algorithm R&D
- Deep learning-based ECG modeling for autonomic nervous system monitoring
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2018 - 2021 Seoul, South Korea
Research Fellow
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
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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
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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
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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
Awards
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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)
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2021 OCR AI Training Data Hackathon — Excellence Award
Ministry of Science and ICT, NIA
AI-Assisted OCR Annotation System for pharmaceutical products (CRAFT-based)
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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)
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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
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2018 STAR Program Paper Presentation — Grand Prize
DSP-IN-U Smart Device Talent Development Program
EMG-based real-time hand gesture prediction model development
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
Languages
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