Ph.D, Senior Researcher
Center for Robotics Research
Convergence Research Center for Diagnosis, Treatment and Care System of Dementia
Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST)

Contact

Email : yslim@kist.re.kr
Office : L8309, International Cooperation Building, KIST(Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Phone : +82-2-958-6641

Research Interests

• Human-robot interaction
  • Artificial intelligence for reliable human-robot interaction in dynamically changing environment
  • Recognition of human behavior characteristics while interacting with robot
• Auditory neuroscience
  • Intelligibility of speech sound with limited spectrotemporal information
  • Advanced cochlear implant electrode and speech signal processing system
• Signal processing
  • Object-based sound signal processing and recognition algorithm

Career

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University (2002)
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University (2004)
• Ph.D. in Auditory Neuroscience at Boston University (2014)
  • Thesis : “Seeing Sound: A New Way to Illustrate Auditory Objects and Their Neural Correlates”
  • Advisor : Timothy J. Gardner
• Research Engineer, Hyundai Motor Company (2004-2006)

Publications

• Journal paper
  1. G. Son, S. Kwon, Y. Lim, “Speech Rate Control for Improving Elderly Speech Recognition of Smart Devices,” Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol.17, no.2, pp.79-84, 2017, doi:10.4316/AECE.2017.02011
  2. Y. Lim, R. Lagoy, B. Shinn-Cunningham, T. Gardner (2016) Transformation of temporal sequences in the zebra finch auditory system, eLife 2016;10.7554/eLife.18205
  3. M. Aoi, K. Lepage, Y. Lim, U.T. Eden and T.J. Gardner (2015) An approach to time-frequency analysis with ridges of the continuous chirplet transform, IEEE Trns. Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 699-710
  4. K.S. Min, S.B. Jun, Y.S. Lim, S.I. Park and S.J. Kim (2013) Modiolus-hugging intracochlear electrode array with shape memory alloy, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, vol. 2013
  5. Y. Lim, B. Shinn-Cunningham and T. Gardner (2012) Sparse contour representations of sound. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 19, pp. 684–687
  6. Y. Lim and J. Choi (2009) Speaker selection and tracking in a cluttered environment with audio and visual information, IEEE Consumer Electronics, vol. 55, issue 3, pp. 1581 – 1589
  7. Y.S. Lim, S.I. Park, Y.H. Kim, S.H. Oh and S.J. Kim (2005) Three Dimensional Analysis of Electrodes Behavior in a Human Cochlear Model, Medical Engineering & Physics, vol. 27, issue 8, pp. 695-703
• Book Chapter
  1. S. B. Jun and Y. Lim, “Implantable Optical Neural Interface,” in Smart Sensors and Systems: Innovations for Medical, Environmental, and IoT Applications, C.-M. Kyung, H. Yasuura, Y. Liu, and Y.-L. Lin, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 209–236.

Conference Presentations

1. Y. Lim, J. Choi (2015) Object-based sound signal classification, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Chicago, IL, USA
2. Y. Lim, J. Markowitz, T. Gardner (2014) Motor and auditory coding of sub-syllabic transitions in zebra finch song, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington DC, USA
3. Y. Lim, B. Shinn-Cunningham, T. Gardner (2014) Temporal sequence processing and natural song time-scales in zebra finch auditory cortex, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington DC, USA
4. Y. Lim, B. Shinn-Cunningham, T. Gardner (2013) Stable time-frequency contours for sparse signal representation, 21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Marrakech, Morocco
5. Y. Lim, B. Shinn-Cunningham, T. Gardner (2013) Time-scales of neural integration constrain a songbird operant behavior. Computational and System Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, UT, USA
6. M. Aoi, Y. Lim, U. Eden, T. Gardner (2013) Object-based spectro-temporal analysis of auditory signals. Computational and System Neuroscience (COSYNE), Salt Lake City, UT, USA
7. Y. Lim, B. Shinn-Cunningham, T. Gardner (2011) Contour representations of sound, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, NY, USA