Jihye Hong

About

  • Born: 28th Jan, 1989
  • Nationality: South Korea

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science, KAIST (South Korea), Feb 2011 - Feb 2013
  • B.S. Computer Science, Ewha Womans University (South Korea), March 2007 - Feb 2011

Work Experience

  • Software Engineer, LG Electronics (South Korea), Feb 2013 - Present

Project

W3C Spatial Navigation specification (LGE, Oct 2017 - Present)

  • Incubated and initiated the Spatial Navigation specification and progressed it to an official specification
  • Researched how to move the focus (the selection indicator which marks the object in the web page with which the user wants to interact) on the web page with four-directional key input device. (e.g. remote control)
  • Addressed issues related to the spec in the CSS Working Group meetings, WICG(Web Incubation Community Group) meetings
  • Implemented a JS library to support CSS Spatial Navigation and released as open source
Spec Demo Released Polyfill

Contributed to WHATWG HTML specification (LGE, Aug 2017 - Oct 2017)

  • Proposed to add 'preventScroll' option to Element.focus()
  • Currently, this feature is supported in the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browser
Spec

W3C CSS Motion Path specification (LGE, Apr 2016 - Present)

  • Added the new features to the CSS Motion Path Specification as a co-editor
  • Contributed to test suits of the spec
Spec Demo

W3C CSS Round Display specification (LGE, Jun 2015 - Dec 2016)

  • Proposed and edited CSS Round Display Specification as a co-editor
  • Implemented the polyfill about the spec, and several demos
Spec Demo

Implemented a web animation framework in webOS (LGE, Feb 2014 - Oct 2014)

  • Implemented a JS library for high-performance web animation using WebGL
  • Implemented and shipped the photo gallery web application using the JS library for the webOS smart TV
Demo

Publication

  • Signage Service Platform (TTA Journal, 2017)
  • Efficient 3D content authoring framework based on mobile AR (VSMM, 2012)
  • AR Paint (ICEC, 2012)

Patent

  • Watch type terminal and operating method thereof (KR101603266B1)
  • Electronic device and method for controlling the same (KR20170027435A)

Talks

  • Women Tech Maker Seoul (2019) - "Challenge the Web Standard"
  • W3C TPAC Breakout Session, Lyon (2018) - "Spatial Navigation in the Web"
  • Google Developer Meetup, Sydney (2016) - "Introducing CSS Round Display"