Contact
You may contact seungyeon.kim@gatech.edu
Education
- (current) Ph.D degree in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
- (2011) Master's degree in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
- (2009) Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea
Research Experience (details)
- (current) Research Assistant, Statistical Machine Learning and Visualization Laboratory, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
- Statistical analysis and visualization of text documents
- Mood Analysis (Generalized Sentiment Analysis)
- Search Engine Visualization
- Modeling and Visualization of Version-controlled Documents
- Research Assistant, Biointelligence Laboratory, Seoul, Korea July 2009
- Hypernetwork model(a cognitive machine learning model) for language learning
- Build Hypernetwork framework in C++, funded by Korea Ministry of Knowledge Economy
Publications
Seungyeon Kim Modeling and Visualizing Version-controlled Documents. Master's Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. pdf
Seungyeon Kim and Guy Lebanon. Local Space-Time Smoothing for Version Controlled Documents. Proc. of The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) 2010. pdf
Work Experience
- Intern, and Software Engineer(part-time), Daum Communications, Seoul, Korea 2008
- Renovated Daum Book (http://book.daum.net) as a main programmer (Spring Framework, iBatis, and AJAX)
- Proposed and implemented an efficient algorithm of suggesting sample sentences in online dictionaries (Wordnet query expansion and tf-idf based IR)
- Team Leader, Rebi Corp, Seoul, Korea 2007
- Collaborated with Rebi Corp in graduation project
- Improved online website crawling algorithm using different crawling policy between authorities(hub) and contents (Apache Nutch, Apache Hardoop distributed system)
Teaching Experience
- Project Teaching Assistant, Biointelligence Laboratory, Seoul, Korea July 2009
- Responsible for guiding a term project. The course was taught in English.
- Lecturer, Korea Internet Volunteer, Nairobi, Kenya Summer 2007
- Instructor for an introductory course of website building. The course was taught in English. It was a volunteer job for reducing digital divide of developing country, supported by Korea Ministry of Information and Communication.
Academic Honors
- Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Fellowship, 2011-2015
- University Fellowship, Seoul National University, all semesters
- National Undergraduate Science & Technology Scholarship, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, 2007
Leadership Activities
- President, Georgia Tech Korean Student Association Computer Science, Georgia Tech, US, 2011
- President, UPnL, Software Dev. Club, Seoul National University, Korea 2004
- Responsible for combining two software development club into UPnL, drafted club regulations, and organized and instructed elementary programming course for freshman
- supported by Samsung SDS
Skills
- Machine Learning: (semi) supervised learning, dimensionality reduction, clustering, graphical models, etc.
- Natural Language Processing: IR, classification, sentiment/mood analysis, sequential text models
- Programming: Matlab, C++, Python, PHP, C, Java, Javascript, SQL, HTML, XHTML
- Software: Lemur, Indri, Spring Framework, iBATIS, Apache HTTP, Apache Nutch, Apache Hadoop
- Military Service: Sergent, Republic of Korea Air Force