Jaesung Hong is a Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST, Korea. His research primarily focuses on surgical AR/VR and surgical robotics. Fundamentally, he is interested in the integration of vision and robotics technologies for clinical applications. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Kyungpook National University, Korea, and his Ph.D. in Frontier Sciences from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2004. After obtaining his Ph.D., he worked as a Foreign Researcher of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), funded by the Japanese government, at The University of Tokyo, and as an Associate Professor at Kyushu University, Japan.
Dr. Hong has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers indexed in SCIE, and has registered more than 40 Korean and international patents. While working at Kyushu University Hospital, Japan, he developed original ENT, abdominal, neurological, and dental surgical navigation systems based on 3D Slicer open-source software, and clinically applied them to various surgeries for more than 200 patients. Among them, the dental implant navigation software has been commercialized in Japan and Korea as an approved medical device. He also developed AR-based surgical navigation and applied it to bone tumor surgeries for the first time in Korea.
Since 2011, he has served as a program committee member for Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), and since 2019, as a program committee member for the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics. He served as co-chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Surgical Robotics from 2017 to 2020. He has been appointed as senior vice president (president-elect) of the Korean Society of Medical Robotics (KSMR) for 2025 and 2026. As the general chair, he hosted the 20th Asian Conference on Computer-Aided Surgery (ACCAS) in 2024. He is also a program co-chair of Medical Imaging Computing & Computer Assisted Surgery (MICCAI) 2025. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE RA-L Journal in 2015 and 2016, and for Computer Assisted Surgery since 2022.