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Researcher

Bohyung Han

Also known as B. Han, Han Bohyung

Bohyung Han is a computer vision researcher whose work spans real-time visual tracking and generative video. He earned computer engineering degrees at Seoul National University and a computer science Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 2005, then joined Mobileye and held faculty posts at UNIST and POSTECH. He coauthored papers on real-time visual tracking and FIFO-Diffusion, a text-to-video method that can generate infinitely long videos without additional training. He also worked at Google, Snap Research, and Google DeepMind. He received the Gaheon Academy Award and was elected a Fellow of KAST in 2025; since August 2026, he is a professor at SNU and a Fellow at Samsung Electronics.

Born
1973
Works
201
Citations
19,438
h-index
54
Badges

Years link to their sources. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1997–2005

    Degrees at SNU and Maryland

    At Seoul National University, he earns bachelor's and master's degrees in computer engineering in 1997 and 2000. He earns a computer science Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 2005 with Larry S. Davis as his adviser.

  2. 2008–2009

    Research staff at Mobileye

    He joins Mobileye's Advanced Project Center as research staff in 2008 and works there through 2009.

  3. 2008–2009

    Papers on visual tracking

    In 2008, he coauthors “Sequential Kernel Density Approximation and Its Application to Real-Time Visual Tracking.” In 2009, he coauthors “Visual Tracking by Continuous Density Propagation in Sequential Bayesian Filtering Framework.”

  4. 2010–2018

    Faculty roles at UNIST and POSTECH

    At UNIST, he serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from February 2010 to July 2010. In July 2010, he joins POSTECH's Department of Computer Science and Engineering as an assistant professor, becomes associate professor in March 2014, and visits Google as a research scientist from August 2016 to August 2017.

  5. 2018–2021

    SNU faculty and Snap Research

    He joins Seoul National University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an associate professor in 2018 and holds the role through February 2021. He works as a staff research scientist at Snap Research from June 2018 to August 2018.

  6. 2024–2025

    Google DeepMind and FIFO-Diffusion

    He works as a visiting faculty researcher at Google DeepMind from October 2024 to October 2025. In 2024, he coauthors FIFO-Diffusion, a text-to-video inference method based on a pretrained diffusion model that generates infinitely long videos without additional training.

  7. 2025

    Gaheon Award and KAST Fellowship

    He receives the Gaheon Academy Award from KIISE and is elected a Fellow of KAST in 2025. In October 2025, the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation name him Scientist and Engineer of the Month for FIFO-Diffusion.

  8. Since August 2026

    Professor and Samsung Fellow

    He is a professor at Seoul National University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Graduate School of AI. In August 2026, he becomes a Fellow (EVP) at Samsung Electronics' DS AX/PI Center and serves as Program Chair for BMVC 2026.

Career

  1. Since 2026SamsungFellow (EVP)
  2. Since 2018Seoul National UniversityAssociate Professor, Professor
  3. 2024–2025Google DeepMindVisiting Faculty Researcher
  4. 2018Snap ResearchStaff Research Scientist
  5. 2016–2017GoogleResearch Scientist
  6. 2010Ulsan National Institute of Science and TechnologyAssistant Professor
  7. 2010–2018Pohang University of Science and TechnologyAssistant Professor, Associate Professor
  8. 2008–2009MobileyeResearch Staff

Education

  1. 2005University of MarylandPh.D.
  2. 2000Seoul National UniversityMaster's degree
  3. 1997Seoul National UniversityBachelor's degree

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes Bohyung Han. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  2. Of 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google, 446 work there nowIncludes Bohyung Han. Our estimates of where the 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google and Google DeepMind work now: 446 at Google and 452 across 278 other organizations.
  3. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes Samsung. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.
  4. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes Samsung. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Bohyung Han | CVLab cv.snu.ac.kr. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Han, Bohyung - Professor - Faculty - Faculty & Research - Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SNU ece.snu.ac.kr. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Publication – Bohyung Han | CVLab cv.snu.ac.kr. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Probabilistic 4D Scene Reconstruction from Monocular Videos | HKUST CSE cse.hkust.edu.hk. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. FIFO-Diffusion: Generating Infinite Videos from Text without Training proceedings.neurips.cc. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. SNU Professor Han Bohyung Named October's Scientist of the Month for Developing 'Infinite Video Generation' AI Algorithm - DongA Science m.dongascience.com. Checked 20 October 2026.