PEOPLE

Byounghyun Yoo

Academic Preparation:

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2006
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1999
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1997

Appointments:

2009 - Present: Research Scientist, Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM), Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 - Present: Visiting Research Scientist, Center for Educational Computing Initiative (CECI), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007 - 2009: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Modeling, Virtual Environment and Simulation (MOVES) Institute, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA
2007 - 2009: Web3D Fellow, Web3D Consortium
2006 - 2007: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Honors:

Four Recent Publications:

X3D Earth Terrain-Tile Production Chain for Georeferenced Simulation by B. Yoo and D. Brutzman, Web3D Symposium 2009, Darmstadt, Germany, 16 - 17 June 2009.
An underwater vehicle simulator with immersive interface using X3D and HLA by P. Hur, S. Han, J. Yang and B. Yoo, Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Vol. 85, No. 1, pp. 33-44, 2009.
Real-time 3D simulation infrastructure for practical application of high-resolution satellite imagery by B. Yoo, D. Brutzman and S. Han, International Symposium on Remote Sensing, ISRS 2008, pp. 29-31, Daejeon, Korea, October 2008.
Image-based modeling of urban buildings using aerial photographs and digital maps by B. Yoo and S. Han, Transactions in GIS, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 377-394, 2006.

Selected Activities:

Development of an open standards-based 3D visualization infrastructure (X3D-Earth) for all manner of real-world objects and information constructs in a geospatial context. Contribution to international standardization activities of Web3D Consortium reviewed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

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