Hee-Kap Ahn

Head and Professor of the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence
Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

Director of the Algorithms Laboratory / Apple Developer Academy / Apple Manufacturing R&D Accelerator

Building 2, Room 233 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea, ZIP: 37673
heekap@postech.ac.kr +82 54 279 2387 +82 54 279 2299 orcid.org/0000-0001-7177-1679

Research Interests

Algorithms and Data Structures / AI Algorithms and Machine Learning / Optimization / Computational Geometry / Quantum Algorithms / Graph Drawing and Geometric Graphs

Recent works include

point location / geodesic convex hulls / Voronoi diagrams in dynamic polygonal environments / shape matching and shape approximation / fast algorithms for nearest neighbor search in high dimensions

Publications - Journal articles / Refereed conference proceedings / dblp

Current students

Ph.D. students - Taekang Eom, Byeonguk Kang, Chaeyoon Chung, Jaegun Lee, Mook Kwon Jung, Minju Song, Seokyun Kang, Hyojeong An, Jeongwon Moon, Seongmin Kwon
Master's students - Jueun Seo, Youjung Bae

Students advised so far

Ph.D. students - Wanbin Son, Hyesun Lee, Sang-Sub Kim, Jinwoo Park, Sanghoon Lee, Taesung Lee, Dongwoo Park, Yoonho Hwang, Hyunsuk Cho, Eunjin Oh, Sang Duk Yoon, Jinyoung Yeo, Sunghwan Kim, Mincheol Kim, Jongmin Choi, Seungjun Lee, Taehoon Ahn, Jaehoon Chung, Hwi Kim
Master's students - Wanbin Son, Sang-Sub Kim, BingBing Zhuang, Min-Gyu Kim, Seungjoon Lee, Hwi Kim, Byeonguk Kim, Dahye Jeong, Chanyang Seo, Jiwoo Park, Geunho Kim

Former Colleagues (PostDoc.) - Dr. Iris Reinbacher, Dr. Sang Won Bae, Dr. Hyo-Sil Kim

Academic Activities

Advisory Committees: ISAAC (International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation)
Program Committee Co-Chairs:

SoCG 2026 (42nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry), New Brunswick, NJ, USA
ISAAC 2021(32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation), Fukuoka, Japan
ISAAC 2014 (25th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation), Jeonju, Korea

Program Committees: recently,

ESA'25 / CCCG'25 / SoCG'24 / TAMC'24 / ISAAC'21 / EuroCG'19 / SoCG'19

Editorial board member: currently,

Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications (CGTA) - Co-Editor-in-Chief
Algorithmica - Guest editor for the special issue of ISAAC 2021
Journal of Information Processing (JIP)
Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIS)

Board member of AAAC - Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation
General secretary of KWCG- Korean Workshop on Computational Geometry ( KWCG 2025 )
Organizer of FWAC - Fall Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (2018 / 2016)
Member of CM2LA - Center for Mathematical Machine Learning and its Applications