Research Fellow
Mentor: Reza Nezafat, Ph.D.
Dr. Kwak was a research fellow in Dr. Nezafat's laboratory from 2011-2014. He subsequently joined Samsung Electronics in South Korea as a Senior Engineer. Most recently, he joined Intel Corporation in Oregon in 2017, where he works as a Systems Engineer. During his time at BIDMC, he first-authored multiple publications under Dr. Nezafat's mentorship.
Selected Publications:
Nam SH, Hong SN, Akçakaya M, Kwak Y, Goddu B, Kissinger KV, et al. Compressed sensing reconstruction for undersampled breath-hold radial cine imaging with auxiliary free-breathing data. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2014;39 (1) :179-88.
Kwak Y, Nam SH, Akçakaya M, Basha TA, Goddu B, Manning WJ, et al. Accelerated aortic flow assessment with compressed sensing with and without use of the sparsity of the complex difference image. Magn Reson Med. 2013;70 (3) :851-8.
. Accelerated phase contrast imaging using compressed sensing with complex difference sparsity. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2012 14(Suppl 1) W24. 2012.
Nam S, Akcakaya M, Kwak Y, Goddu B, Kissinger KV, Manning WJ, Tarokh V, Nezafat R. Improved accelerated breath-hold radial cine image reconstruction by acquiring additional free-breathing data between breath-holds. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2012 14(Suppl 1) P269. 2012.