Deog-Kyoon Jeong
Biography
Today’s inexpensive, high-performance PCs, game controllers, and video systems would not be possible without the precision synchronization enabled by the work of Deog-Kyoon Jeong. He was the first to create a high‐speed digital link between a computer and a monitor. Before this, low resolution defined the viewing experience. Jeong changed that with DVI, using a small number of high‐speed links to communicate information digitally to the monitor. The solution was simple yet brilliant and he followed DVI with the even sharper HDMI, developed by his group at Silicon Image. From the start, Jeong had a vision for a better display of information—and we all see more clearly for it.
An IEEE Fellow, Jeong is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea and is the 2024 recipient of the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits for "leadership in the technology development for Digital Video Interface (DVI) and High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)."
