Profile of Minje Kim

Minje Kim was an associate professor at Indiana University (2016-2023). From Jan. 2024 he moved to the School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a Visiting Academic working at Amazon Lab126. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at UIUC (2016) after working as a researcher at ETRI, a national lab in Korea (2006 to 2011). Prior to that, he received his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at POSTECH (Summa Cum Laude) and in the Division of Information and Computer Engineering at Ajou University (with honors) in 2006 and 2004, respectively. During his career as a researcher, he has focused on developing machine learning models for audio signal processing applications. He is a recipient of various awards, including the NSF Career Award (2021), IU Trustees Teaching Award (2021), IEEE SPS Best Paper Award (2020), Google and Starkey’s grants for outstanding student papers in ICASSP 2013 and 2014, respectively, and Richard T. Cheng Endowed Fellowship from UIUC in 2011. He is an IEEE Senior Member and also belongs to the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee as a member (2018-2023) and the Vice Chair (2024). He is serving as Senior Area Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing and IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal of Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, and Consulting Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing. He was the General Chair of IEEE WASPAA 2023 and also a reviewer, program committee member, or area chair for the major machine learning and signal processing venues. He is on more than 50 patents as an inventor.