Biography
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, under supervision of Prof. Denilson Barbosa since April 2010. I completed my Ph. D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Catholic University of Korea in February 2010, and Prof. Byung-Yeon Hwang was my advisor during my graduate studies. The purpose of my doctoral research was to develop a search engine for blogs. The search engine checks for update of each blog in a specific time which was predicted based on the blog owner's preferred time for posting. Recently, I am interested in social network analysis, and the title of my current research is "information network extraction over time." The goal of this research is to identify current relationships among entities such as people, locations, and organizations. We believe its result will be helpful to reduce wrong information and to keep automatically extracted information fresh. At the same time, another research which to analyse data from Twitter or blogs for detecting events is conducting with Prof. Hwang. For details, please refer to my CV.
WORK
- April 2010 - Present, Post-doc, Database Research Group, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
- May 2009 - February 2010, March 2006 - February 2007, Research Assistant, Database Systems Laboratory, The Catholic University of Korea
- March 2007 - May 2009, Technical Research Personnel, Korean Military Service & The Catholic University of Korea
- March 2007 - August 2008, March 2004 - February 2006, Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea
Education
- Ph. D., Computer Science and Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, February 2010 (GPA: 4.46/4.5)
Thesis: A blog search engine reflecting bloggers' posting habits - M. Eng., Computer Science and Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, February 2006 (GPA: 4.21/4.5)
Thesis: X-Binder: A path combining system of XML documents based on RDBMS - B. Sc., Molecular Biology (1st Major), B. A., Korean History (2nd Major), The Catholic University of Korea, February 2004
Scholarship, Award, and Experience
- Recorded in Marquis who's who in the world 26th-28th edition, 2009-2011
- Outstanding Presentation Award at the 7th International Conference on Applications and Principles of Information Science(APIS'08), January 2008
- Science & Technology Graduated Scholarship, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, Korean Government, September 2007 - August 2008
- Vice Chairman of Student Branch at the Catholic University of Korea of IEEE Seoul Section, 2007
- Academic Excellent Scholarship, The Catholic University of Korea, Spring 2007
- Academic Excellent Scholarship, The Catholic University of Korea, Fall 2005
- Oversea Training Support Scholarship, The Catholic University of Korea, Summer 2005
- Owner and Web-based Application Developer, LEEZ HOME Pvt. Ltd., 2003-2007
- Vice Principal and Teacher of Sunday school, Seobu Catholic Church, Korea, 2002
- Head of Planning Department of Student Association, Department of Life Science, The Catholic University of Korea, 2000