Intellect: Ostensibly there is colour, ostensibly sweetness, ostensibly bitterness, actually only atoms and the void.

Senses: Poor intellect, do you hope to defeat us while from us you borrow your evidence? Your victory is your defeat.

--Mind and Matter (originally from a fragment of Galenus)

Room #528, Information Science Building

Soongsil University

50 Sadang-ro, Dongjak-gu

Seoul 07027, Korea

Phone +82-2-820-0925

E-mail kbhwang at (no dots here) ssu dot ac dot kr

Machine Learning Lab  School of Computer Science and Engineering  Soongsil University

Educational Background

Ph.D., School of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2005.
Dissertation: Hierarchical probabilistic graphical models for large-scale data analysis (advisor: Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang)
M.S.E., Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 1999.
Thesis: Bayesian network-based translation of Japanese particles in Japanese to Korean machine translation (advisor: Prof. Yung Taek Kim)
B.S.E., Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 1997.

Teaching & Research Experience

Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information Technology, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 2018 ~ present.
Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information Technology, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 2012 ~ Feb. 2018.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., Mar. 2016 ~ Feb. 2017.
Visiting Research Associate, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, U.S.A., Feb. 2012 ~ Feb. 2013. (worked with Prof. Sek Won Kong)
Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering (formerly School of Computing), College of Information Technology, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, Apr. 2008 ~ Feb. 2012.
Full-time Lecturer (tenure track), School of Computing, College of Information Technology, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 2006 ~ Mar. 2008.
Visiting Researcher (postdoc at Biointelligence Lab), Institute of Computer Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Sep. 2005 ~ Feb. 2006.
Visiting Doctoral Student, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, U.S.A., Dec. 2003 ~ June 2004. (worked with Prof. Peter J. Park)

Whole-genome sequencing data analysis
Analysis of large-scale data using probabilistic graphical models
Efficient (approximate) Bayesian learning for belief networks (using MCMC techniques)
Practical feature selection methods for sparse data
Microarray data analysis

Outstanding Presentation Award, Korea Computer Congress 2011, 2011. (with my student Phương Th�< Hồng Võ)
ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge 2009, ranked 3rd in Tag Recommendation Task, 2009. (with my student Sanghun Ju)
ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge 2008, ranked 3rd in Spam Detection Task, 2008. (with my student Chanju Kim)
International Research Internship Program ($25,000 / year), Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, Daejeon, Korea, Dec. 2003 ~ June 2004.