Work Experience

• [2020.02 - ] AI Researcher, Kakao Brain, Pangyo.
• [2017.07 - 2020.01] Research Director (VP of Research), AITRICS, Seoul
  • 2019.09 - 2020.01. Research Director
  • 2018.12 - 2019.08. Lead Research Scientist
  • 2017.07 - 2018.11. Senior Research Scientist
• [2013.06 - 2013.08] Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond
  • Mentor: Dr. Yuxiong he and Dr. Sameh Elnikety
• [2012.09 - 2013.03] Research Intern, Mircosoft Research Asia, Beijing
  • Mentor: Dr. Xin-Jing Wang

Education

• [2009.03 - 2018.02] Ph.D., POSTECH, CSE
  • Supervised by Prof. Seungjin Choi
  • Machine Learning Group
• [2005.03 - 2009.02] B.S., POSTECH, CSE,

Publications

Awards

• Naver Ph.D. Fellowship Award (2016)
• POSTECH-Qualcomm Fellowship Award (2015)
• WSDM’15 Best Paper Runner-up Award (2015)
• Korea BI Data Mining Conference Best Paper Awards (2012 and 2015)
• Bronze Prize, Korea Olympiad in Informatics (2005)

Professional Services

• Conference reviewer
  • UAI’19, AISTATS’19, NeurIPS(‘20-‘17,’15), ICML(‘20-‘18), AAAI(‘20-‘17), IJCAI(‘19-‘18), ACML(‘20-‘17), WACV(‘20-‘15), IJCNN(‘16-‘15), PRICAI
• Journal reviewer (last three years)
  • IEEE TIP, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCYB, Digital Signal Processing, Patten Recognition