CV

Assistant Professor, Department of Big Data Analytics, Kyung Hee University, South Korea (2022 - Present)

• • The Head of Department of Big Data Analytics, Kyung Hee University, South Korea (2023 - Present)

Assistant Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence & SW Technology, Sunmoon University, South Korea (2019 - 2022)

Postdoctoral/Adjunct Research Fellow, Data61, CSIRO, Australia (2016 - 2019) 

• • Supervisor: Prof. Raja Jurdak

  • Modeling disease spread based on human mobility

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, USA (2015 - 2016)

• • Supervisors: Prof. Jure Leskovec, Prof. Daniel McFarland, and Prof. Dan Jurafsky

  • Modeling interdisciplinary citation dynamics across subfields of sciences

PhD Study, Research School of Computer Science, The Australian National University, Australia (2011 - 2015)

• • Supervisors: Prof. Peter Christen, Dr. David Newth, Prof. Lexing Xie, and Prof. Robert Ackland

  • Thesis: Dynamics of Information Diffusion

Manager, Intelligence Lab, SK Telecom, South Korea (2006 - 2010)

• • Project lead on social computing based upon mobile communication networks

Researcher, Software Robot Research Team, ETRI, South Korea (2005 - 2006)

• • Lifelong learning of human behavior and adaptation for autonomous software robots

Researcher, Digital Media Lab, Samsung Electronics, South Korea (2004 - 2005)

• • Digital media system architectures

Research Intern, LG Electronics, South Korea (2003)

• • Won the best int'l internship award

Teaching Excellence Award @Sunmoon University (March 2021)

Finalist in the Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, Australia (August 2019)

PhD Scholarship @The Australian National University (2011 - 2014)

Tuition Fee Exemption Sponsorship @The Australian National University (2011 - 2014)

Complex Systems Science Overseas Research Grant @CSIRO (August 2013)

3rd Prize Winner at CECS Postgraduate Research Presentations @The Australian National University (August 2012)

AAAI ICWSM Student Scholarship (2012)

Vice-Chancellor's Higher Degree Research Grant @The Australian National University (2012)

Outstanding Academic Achievement Award @University of Southern California (2004)

Best International Internship Award @LG Electronics (2003)

1st Prize Winner at Software Competition @LG Electronics (2003)

Journal Peer Review: 

• • Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)

  • Scientific Reports

  • Artificial Intelligence Review

  • Journal of Applied Statistics 

  • Journal of Regional Science

  • Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM)

  • ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS)

  • EPIDEMICS

  • NEUROCOMPUTING

  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

  • Mathematics

  • Entropy

  • NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking 

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)

  • PLOS ONE

  • Brazilian Journal of Physics 

  • Advances in Complex Systems (ACS)

  • Computers in Human Behavior

  • Journal of Risk and Financial Management

  • Electronics

  • Research and Advances: Environmental Sciences 

Program Committee: SIGKDD 2016 (Research Track)

Journal Boards: 

• • Journal of Sepsis and Blood Infection, Editorial Board Member