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 |
| 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
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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)
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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
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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
Researcher
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
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
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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
Teaching
Awards
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Academic Service
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
- Prof. Sae Young Jae
University of Seoul, Department of Sport Science; research collaborator