# Bongjin Jun

> Bongjin Jun is a South Korean computer-vision researcher and STRADVISION co-founder, former CEO, research leader, CISO and director. A POSTECH PhD whose career includes Olaworks and Intel Korea, he helped establish the company in 2014. His work on text recognition and compact vision algorithms helped underpin its early smart-glasses work and later move into automotive perception software.

- **Role:** Co-founder, CISO and director at STRADVISION; also publicly identified as research director
- **Organizations:** STRADVISION, Intel Korea, Olaworks, Samsung SDS, POSTECH
- **Nationality:** South Korean
- **Education:** PhD in engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
- **Known for:** Co-founded STRADVISION in October 2014., Led STRADVISION as CEO in its early text-recognition and smart-glasses period., Member of the POSTECH-STRADVISION team that placed first in five ICDAR 2015 robust-reading competition categories.

## Career timeline

- **2002-2003** — Researcher at Samsung SDS, according to the October 2026 director appointment disclosure.
- **Before 2012** — Worked with Olaworks through the POSTECH research network; Olaworks was acquired by Intel in 2012.
- **2012-2014** — Senior research engineer at Intel Korea.
- **2014-10** — Co-founded STRADVISION with Unhyeon Nam, Hojin Cho and Myungchul Sung.
- **2015** — Identified as CEO by POSTECH; collaborated on award-winning scene-text recognition work at ICDAR 2015.
- **2016** — Co-authored Canny Text Detector at CVPR; STRADVISION began offering ADAS solutions.
- **2019** — Co-authored face-recognition research at CVPR Workshops and ICCV; company identified him as R&D director.
- **2026-06** — Attended STRADVISION’s June 30 KOSDAQ listing ceremony.
- **2026-09** — Shared technical development experience at the sixth Korea-China Future Economic Cooperation Forum.
- **2026-10** — October 8 shareholder meeting approved his appointment as an inside director for a three-year term; disclosure identifies his current role as CISO.

## Achievements

- Co-founded STRADVISION in October 2014.
- Led STRADVISION as CEO in its early text-recognition and smart-glasses period.
- Member of the POSTECH-STRADVISION team that placed first in five ICDAR 2015 robust-reading competition categories.
- Co-author of Canny Text Detector: Fast and Robust Scene Text Localization Algorithm (CVPR 2016).
- Co-author of Hierarchical Feature-Pair Relation Networks for Face Recognition, recognized with a best paper award at the CVPR 2019 Biometrics Workshop.
- Received the Korea Innovation Frontier Award for technological innovation in 2019, as announced by STRADVISION.
- Co-author of Attentional Feature-Pair Relation Networks for Accurate Face Recognition (ICCV 2019).

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Attended the KOSDAQ listing ceremony on June 30, identified in the photograph caption as research director.
- **2026-07** — Bought 10,743 STRADVISION shares in the executive share purchases reported on July 9.
- **2026-09** — Participated as a speaker at the sixth Korea-China Future Economic Cooperation Forum in Seoul on September 18.
- **2026-10** — Shareholders approved his inside-director appointment on October 8; the disclosed term is three years and his current position is CISO.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://kr.linkedin.com/in/%EB%B4%89%EC%A7%84-%EC%A0%84-a22b69105

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