Professor Joyce Jiyoung Whang was appointed as an ..

Professor Joyce Jiyoung Whang was appointed as an assistant professor in our school on July 1, 2020！ She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in December 2015. Her research interests include data mining, big data analytics, data intelligence, and graph mining. She leads the Big Data Intelligence laboratory and more detail can be found in the following link. https://cs.kaist.ac.kr/people/view?idx=605&kind=faculty&menu=160 https://cs.kaist.ac.kr/research/labView?sn=109&menu=64 Welcome, Professor Whang！

Research on the Million Follower Fallacy Receives ..

Professor Meeyoung Cha’s research investigating the correlation between the number of followers on social media and its influence was re-highlighted after 10 years of publication of the paper. Saying that her research is still as relevant today as the day it was published 10 years ago, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) presented Professor Cha from the School of Computing with the Test of Time Award during the 14th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) held online June 8 through 11. In her 2010 paper titled ‘Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy,’ Professor Cha proved that number of followers does not match the influential power. She investigated the data including 54,981,152 user accounts, 1,963,263,821 social links, and 1,755,925,520 Tweets, collected with 50 servers. The research compares and illustrates the limitations of various methods used to measure the influence a user has on a social networking platform. These results provided new insights and interpretations of the influencer selection algorithm used to maximize the advertising impact on big social networking platforms. The research also looked at how long an influential user was active for, and whether the user could freely cross the borders between fields and be influential on different topics as well. By analyzing cases of who becomes an influencer when new events occur, it was shown that a person could quickly become an influencer using several key tactics, unlike what was previously claimed by the ‘accidental influential theory’. Professor Cha explained, “At the time, data from social networking platforms did not receive much attention in computer science, but I remember those all-nighters I pulled to work on this project, fascinated by the fact that internet data could be used to solve difficult social science problems. I feel so grateful that my research has been endeared for such a long time.” Professor Cha received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from KAIST, and conducted this research during her postdoctoral course at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. She now also serves as a chief investigator of a data science group at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). (END)

Professor Tae-Kyun Kim was appointed as an associa..

Professor Tae-Kyun Kim was appointed as an associate professor in the computer science department of KAIST on June 1, 2020. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2008. His research interests lie in computer vision and machine learning. Detail information can be found in the following link. https://cs.kaist.ac.kr/people/view?idx=588&kind=faculty&menu=160 Welcome, Professor Kim！

Professor Alice Oh was appointed as the co-academi..

Prof. Alice Oh in our department was appointed as the co-academic chair of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) conference in April next year. ICLR Society was co-founded by Turing Award winners Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio in 2019, and this is the second-largest international society after NeurIPS in the field of machine learning, although it is held only eight times until this year. ICLR 2020 was conducted entirely online due to the influence of COVID 19, and ICLR 2021 will be held in Vienna in early May. Along with Professor Oh, Naila Murray of Naver Labs Europe will serve as a co-academic chair.

Block infordemic

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Prof. Minsoo Kim was appointed as an associate pro..

Prof. Minsoo Kim was appointed as an associate professor of Computer Science at the KAIST School of Computing on March 1, 2020. Prof. Kim received his doctorate degree from KAIST in 2006 and his major research field is the database. His detailed bibliography can be found in the following link. https://cs.kaist.ac.kr/people/view?idx=600&kind=faculty&menu=160 Welcome, Prof. Kim！

Dr. Kilho Lee was appointed as an assistant profes..

Dr. Kilho Lee (advisor: Prof. Insik Shin) was appointed as an assistant professor in the department of smart systems software at the Soongsil University in March 2020. Dr. Lee received his Ph.D. from our school in 2019 and he had worked as a post-doc researcher for a year in our school. Dr. Lee's main research area spans various cyber-physical systems and real-time embedded systems. He has published many papers in several top conferences/journals including IEEE RTSS, IEEE RTAS, ACM MobiCom, ACM EMSOFT, and IEEE IoT-Journal. He also received Best Paper Award in ACM MobiCom 2019 and IEEE CPSNA 2014. For more detailed information, please refer to the following site. https://sites.google.com/view/khlee

Prof. Sooel Son＇s research team published a paper ..

A research team led by Prof. Sooel Son published a paper, titled FUSE: Finding File Upload Bugs via Penetration Testing in Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS), one of the top security conferences in San Diego, USA from Feb. 24 to 27, 2020. File uploading feature in modern web applications is important in terms of sharing user-generated contents. However, there is a potential security threat in that the file upload function may upload arbitrary files created by attackers to the target server and used to take over the target system. In this study, the team of Web Security & Privacy Lab created a simulation testing tool called FUSE, found 30 new vulnerabilities in file uploading features from 33 popular web applications such as WordPress and Joomla, and received 15 CVEs. In addition, the research team released a mock attack testing tool FUSE on GitHub as well. Paper site: https://wsp-lab.github.io/papers/lee-fuse-ndss20.pdf Code site: https://github.com/WSP-LAB/FUSE

Prof. Kihong Heo was appointed as an assistant pro..

Prof. Kihong Heo was appointed as an assistant professor of the School of Computing and Graduate School of Information Security at KAIST on February 1, 2020. Prof. Heo received his doctorate degree from Seoul National University in 2017 and his major is Program Analysis, Software Security, Programming Language. His detailed bibliography can be found in the following link. https://cs.kaist.ac.kr/people/view?idx=598&kind=faculty&menu=160 Welcome, Prof. Heo！

Prof. Hongseok Yang gave an invited talk at ACM PO..

Prof. Hongseok Yang at the KAIST School of Computing gave an invited talk titled “Probabilistic Programming: Introduction and Two Remarks” at POPL 2020, a top-tier international conference in programming languages, which was held in New Orleans, USA, from 19 January 2020 to 25 January 2020.

Prof. Meeyoung Cha gave a keynote speech on Januar..

Prof. Meeyoung Cha gave a keynote speech on January 21 at the NetSciX 2020, held at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. NetSciX is a premiere winter conference held by the Network Science Society, featuring the latest research findings in the field of network science. The other keynote speakers of NetSciX 2020 include distinguished speakers including Prof. Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern University), Dr. Alain Barrat (CNRS, France), and Prof. Katy Börner (Indiana University).

Prof. Meeyoung Cha received a Young Information Sc..

Prof. Meeyoung Cha received a Young Information Scientist award from Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) in December 19, 2019. The award, sponsored by organizing committee members of WWW 2014, is bestowed up to one scientist under the age of 40, with excellent R & D achievements in information science. This is the first time that the a recipient is from KAIST. Prof. Cha has researched on topics such as fake news detection, inferring economic indicators through satellite imagery, and developing insomnia detection mode in the field of data science and social computing, and published articles have been cited more than 13,000 times. She has played a leading role as a female scientist. Since January 2019, she has been selected as a promising Young Chief Investigator of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and runs a Data Science Group under the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Research Group. In addition, Prof. Cha delivered a keynote speech on the title "Current challenges in computational social science" at a international conference EMNLP(Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) in November, 2019, HongKong.

Sung-eui Yoon received the award for Next Generati..

Prof. Sung-eui Yoon received the award for Next Generation Scientist (in the category of IT), which was selected and supported by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology and S-Oil Science and Culture Foundation. This award is given to young scientists who have made excellent contributions in the last 10 years. Prof. Yoon has made significant contributions to physically based rendering in graphics, large-scale image search in computer vision, and sound source localization in robotics. https://www.mk.co.kr/news/it/view/2019/12/1057107/

Prof. Jongse Park was appointed as an assistant pr..

Prof. Jongse Park was appointed as an assistant professor of Computer Science at the KAIST School of Computing on December 1, 2019. He is also a faculty member of the Computer Architecture and Systems Laboratory (CASys). Prof. Park received his doctorate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018 and his major is computer architecture. His detailed bibliography can be found in the following link. https://cs.kaist.ac.kr/people/view?idx=595&kind=faculty&menu=160 Welcome, Prof. Park！

Hackers are able to extract passwords from electri..

http://me2.do/FNi187ea Prof. Kwangjo Kim in our computer science department have interviewed about the vulnerability of the electric scooter and car-sharing systems, featured by KBS on Nov. 15, 2019.

Prof. Juho Kim had interview in D-forum by SBS

Prof. Juho Kim talked about social phenomenon including authentic online discussion in a news program by SBS.

Prof. Min H. Kim delivered a keynote lecture at CA..

Prof. Min H. Kim delivered a keynote lecture at CAD/Graphics 2019 ​ Prof. Min H. Kim delivered a keynote lecture on the topic “Beyond Human Vision - Seeing More with Camera” at Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics) 2019 in Qingdao, China, from May 5 to 6. Prof. Kim discussed the foundations of compressive spectral imaging and introduced recent advances in the development of hyperspectral imaging technology that has been developed to make spectral imaging more accurate and smaller for practical applications in our daily life.

Prof. Sung Yong Shin received Lifetime Achievement..

Prof. Sung Yong Shin, awarded Asia Graphics Lifetime Achievement Award. Prof. Sung Yong Shin received an Asia Graphics Lifetime Achievement Award in Pacific Graphics 2019 for his outstanding leadership and tremendous contributions to computer graphics research in Asia. Prof. Shin founded Pacific Graphics in 1993 with his companion Prof. Myoung Soo Kim at Seoul National University and Prof. Shin is an emeritus professor of computer science at the KAIST School of Computing.

KHC excellent demonstration award

Jaehyun Jang (advisor: Prof. Jinah Park) received an excellent demonstration award for ‘a touch sensing rendering method of virtual fluid through contactless haptic interface’ at 11th Korea Haptics Community (KHC) in Seoul National University convention center on August 30-31. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the KAIST School of Computing. Congratulations！ KHC was founded in 2007 by some active haptic-based research groups in Korea and it makes efforts to develop domestic research on haptics by supporting various research and network activities.

Dr. Sungjin Kim, appointed as an assistant profess..

Dr. Sungjin Kim (advisor: Prof. Brent Byunghoon Kang) was appointed to the assistant professor of the intelligent system engineering at the Cheju Halla University in September 2019. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. degree in a paper titled “Risk Analysis Model on Malware Distribution Networks” in February 2019, and he has been researching the differences between benign and malicious networks through social network analysis techniques for finding malicious artifacts hidden on the web. The findings have been implemented and used in practice and published in Computers & Security, Computer Networks, ETRI journals, and SecureComm. Recently, he has commercialized the malware detection system using deep learning technology, and he continues to expand his research field to the IoT sensor development and the anomaly detection using deep learning on collected logs.

Yeonsu Kim, an undergraduate student of the KAIST ..

Yeonsu Kim, an undergraduate student of our school, won the best research award of the undergraduate research program (URP) on August 28, 2019 (advisor: Prof. Sung-Ju Lee and research assistant: Taesik Gong). This research is a collaborative work with Prof. Jinwoo Shin at the School of Electrical Engineering and is accepted to an international conference, ACM SenSys: Taesik Gong, Yeonsu Kim, Jinwoo Shin, and Sung-Ju Lee, "MetaSense: Few-Shot Adaptation to Untrained Conditions in Deep Mobile Sensing", In Proceedings of ACM SenSys 2019. They propose a novel method that allows machine learning applications using mobile sensors under ill-posed conditions. Recently, deep learning evolution allows researchers to focus on running various applications on personal mobile devices, for example, diagnosing heart attack using a mobile sensor. However, these deep-learning-based applications have presented suboptimal performance when using untrained personal data or devices. This work encourages more practical mobile sensing applications to be developed.

Sungjoon Park, a Ph.D. student of the KAIST School..

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/09/announcement-of-2019-fellowship.html A Ph.D. student Sungjoon Park (advisor: Prof. Alice Oh) was awarded the 2019 Google Ph.D. Fellowship in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) area. Google has been conducting the Google Ph.D. Fellowship Program from 2009 to spotlight Ph.D. candidates who are doing outstanding work in the field of computer science. The awardees are granted ten thousand dollars worth of scholarship and become connected with Google's specialists in each field as mentors to discuss the research and get feedback. This year, a total of fifty Ph.D. students worldwide were awarded, including three Korean students out of ten students in East Asia. Sungjun Park’s research on Computational Psychotherapy via machine learning (ML) -based NLP has enabled him to award the fellowship. Throughout his Ph.D. years, Sungjun Park proposed to adapt distributed representations, which are generally used in the ML-based NLP area, to Korean. In addition, he presented methods of analyzing trained distributed representation at the annual conference of the association for computational linguistics (ACL) and the conference on empirical methods in natural language processing (EMNLP) in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Recently, he proposed criteria to classify psychological counseling clients’ utterance according to their factor in the counseling dialogue and presented at the annual conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). In addition, he is actively working on artificial neural network-based dialogue model generation, complex emotion extraction and prediction from the text, and developing computational psychotherapy applications.

Dr. Seongkook Heo, appointed as an assistant profe..

Dr. Seongkook Heo (advisor: Prof. Geehyuk Lee) was appointed as an assistant professor in the computer science department at the University of Virginia on August 12, 2019. He had worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto after achieving his Ph.D. degree from the KAIST School of Computing in 2017. Dr. Heo has worked on developing various human-computer interaction methods and published papers in CHI, UIST, CSCW conferences, and IEEE Transactions on Haptics. He also received a Ph.D. fellowship from Naver company.

Editorial board member of ACM Transactions on Soft..

Dr. Shin Yoo, a faculty member of the School of Computing, KAIST, has been appointed as an editorial board member of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) starting from July 2019. TOSEM is one of two SCI journals in software engineering, along with IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. TOSEM has an impact factor of 2.516 in JCR 2017 and is currently ranked at the 18th place by Google Scholar among the Software Systems conferences and journals.

1st place in Cardiac Segmentation and Best Award i..

Jeon Tae-joon, a Ph.D. and Lee Na-kyung, a master's degree student both from School of Computing at KAIST (Advisor: Professor Kim Dae Young), were awarded the 1st prize in the AI HeLP Challenge performance presentation for automatically dividing right & left vents, left ventricle myocardium, and positive performance presentation. This challenge held at Asan Medical Center in Seoul on March 13, organized by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Asan Medical Center.

Prof. Jeehoon Kang is appointed to our school

Professor Jeehoon Kang has been appointed to the School of Computing as of February 27, 2019. Professor Jeehoon Kang received his doctorate degree from Seoul National University in 2019 and his major is Concurrency, Parallelism, Programming Language, Verification, and his detailed history is as follows. https://cs.kaist.ac.kr/people/view?idx=590&kind=faculty&menu=160 Let's welcome Professor Jeehoon Kang！

2019 Science and Culture Exhibition Service Capaci..

The research team KAIST's Smart Science Museum exhibition technology held the first-half workshop of science and culture exhibition services on Feb. 21-22 at the Hyatt Hotel in Seogwipo, Jeju Island. The Science and Culture Exhibition Service project was started in 2018 as a project supported by the Korea Research Foundation. A total of 15 research teams are involved in the Smart Science Museum research group, with three teams from KAIST are participating. In School of Computing Professor Han Dong-soo (the head of the research team), Professor Park Jin-ah and Professor Lee Ki-hyuk are participating, and Professor Lee Woo-hoon is participating in the industrial design department. At the workshop, 15 research team’s manager, joint research institutes, the National Museum of Science research team, and officials from the exhibition headquarters of the National Daegu Science Museum participated to announce their 2019 research plans and reflect on their findings in 2018. During the workshop, Lee Jung-mo, director of the Seoul Municipal Science Museum, Kwak Soo-jin, CEO of "The Shake Creative," and Kwon Ki-kyun, CEO of "Science Museum and Culture," attended to give a talk on the science and cultural exhibitions. In addition, a joint advisory meeting was held with advisors for the Science and Culture Exhibition Service Capacity Enhancement Support Project and the research manager of 15 teams. “The workshop was nice because we could exchange information through various research exchanges," said Professor Han Dong-soo. “It was a good place to get hints to strengthen the exhibition capacity of the Korean Science and Culture Exhibition Service," he said

Professor Suk-young Ryu＇s Award for Excellence and..

Professor Ryu Suk-young of the School of Computing won the Excellence Award and Professor Kim Joo-ho won the Excellence Award at the Woe School Award, which was held on February 18 to commemorate the 48th anniversary of its foundation. Professor Ryu Seok-young's reward of 5 million won and matching scholarship of 5 million won by alumni Chang Byung-kyu contributed to the School of Computing Scholarship Fund. Congratulation