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2024
Dec 10th, 2024
- This year, NS-CUK successfully submitted one research paper to the AAAI, which is one of the most prestigious conferences in AI fields, and was accepted.
- Van Thuy Hoang, O-Joun Lee: Pre-training Graph Neural Networks on Molecules by using Subgraph-conditioned Graph Information Bottleneck. The 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025), Philadelphia, PA, USA; 02/2025.
Nov 11th, 2024
- A research contribution from NS Lab@CUK is nominated as one of the major research achievements of
The Catholic University of Korea.
- The NS Lab team of Jin Woo Jeong and Ju Hee Shim once again excelled in the 2024 CUK Competition on AI, CSIE, and DS (제 3회 가톨릭대학교 인공지능학과/컴퓨터정보공학부/데이터사이언스학과 경진대회), winning the best award.
Nov 4th, 2024
- We attended the 9th IEEE/IEIE International Conference on Consumer Electronics Asia (ICCE-Asia 2024) and gave an invited talk on “An Overview of Graph Learning Models in Molecular Structure Analysis.”
Oct 15th, 2024 – Nov 11th, 2024
Sep 11th, 2024
Sep 3rd, 2024 – Nov 26th, 2024
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 2024 Fall CUK Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series (2024년 가을 가톨릭대학교 인공지능 세미나) with the Department of AI. This seminar series consists of 11 invited talks given by experts from both the corporate world and research institutions and is scheduled to take place over a period of 13 weeks, from September 3rd, 2024, to November 26th, 2024.
Aug 22nd, 2024
- We attended The 2024 Summer Workshop of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing and gave an invited talk on “Molecular Structure Analysis using Graph Neural Networks.”
Jul 30th, 2024
- A research contribution from NS Lab@CUK is nominated as one of the major research achievements of The Catholic University of Korea.
Jul 17th, 2024 – Jul 31st, 2024
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 2nd NS-CUK Summer School on Digital Humanities (NS-CUK DH 2024) and the 2nd NS-CUK Summer School on Technical Writing (NS-CUK TW 2024). Each of these programs consists of 11 lectures presented by Dr. Eun-Soon You and is scheduled to take place over a period of three weeks, from July 17th, 2024, to July 31st, 2024.
Jun 26th, 2024
- We attended the 2024 Summer Annual Conference of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers and gave an invited talk on “Analyzing Molecular Structures with Graph Neural Networks.”
Jun 5th, 2024
- The 2024 Summer CUK AI Professor-Student Meeting was held.
May 31st, 2024
- We started a research project on “Literary Research in the Digital Age: Analysis of Literary Works using Deep Learning-based Language Model,” supported by the Academic Research Professors Program (PI: Dr. Eun-Soon You) through NRF of Korea and funded by MOE of Korea (Jun 2024 – May 2025, 20 Mil KRW).
May 20th, 2024
- The NS Lab team of Jin Woo Jeong, Min Seo Kim, and Jinho Seo once again excelled in the 2024 CUK Competition on Data Analytics, winning the encouragement award for the third year in a row.
May 15th, 2024
May 7th, 2024
Apr 15th, 2024
- We started an industry-academic joint technology development project, affiliated with Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation 3.0 (LINC3.0) on “Knowledge Graph-based Cross-cultural Personalized Recommendation Solution for Korean Food/Cosmetic Products,” through NRF of Korea and funded by MOE of Korea (Apr 2024 – Nov 2024, 30 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Shukran Korea Inc.
Apr 9th, 2024
- We started an intramural research project on “Topography-aware Wind Speed and Direction Forecasting System based on Multi-modal Spatio-temporal Graph Neural Networks,” funded by The Catholic University of Korea (Mar 2024 – Feb 2025, 7 Mil KRW).
Apr 4th, 2024 – May 13th, 2024
Mar 16th, 2024
Mar 12th, 2024 – Jun 4th, 2024
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 2024 Spring CUK Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series (2024년 봄 가톨릭대학교 인공지능 세미나) with the Department of AI. This seminar series consists of 12 invited talks given by experts from both the corporate world and research institutions and is scheduled to take place over a period of 13 weeks, from March 12th, 2024, to June 4th, 2024.
Mar 8th, 2024
- The 2024 Spring CUK AI Professor-Student Meeting was held.
Mar 4th, 2024
Feb 27th, 2024
- A research contribution from NS Lab@CUK is nominated as one of the major research achievements of The Catholic University of Korea.
Feb 20th, 2024 – Feb 27th, 2024
- We have participated in AAAI 2024, Vancouver, Canada. Our team’s steady stream of research on graph learning has been published as two papers.
- Van Thuy Hoang, O-Joun Lee: Transitivity-Preserving Graph Representation Learning for Bridging Local Connectivity and Role-based Similarity. The 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024), Vancouver, Canada; 02/2024.
- Hyeon-Ju Jeon, Jeon-Ho Kang, In-Hyuk Kwon, O-Joun Lee: Explainable Graph Neural Networks for Observation Impact Analysis in Atmospheric State Estimation. The Explainable Machine Learning for Sciences Workshop (XAI4Sci) held in conjunction with the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024), Vancouver, Canada; 02/2024.
2023
Dec 27th, 2023
- We successfully organized the 2nd CUK Annual Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (CUK AI Colloquium 2023) at Bucheon, Korea, by collaborating with other labs in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, the Catholic University of Korea.
Dec 18th, 2023 – Dec 29th, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 1st NS-CUK Winter School on Digital Humanities. This program consists of 9 lectures presented by Dr. Eun-Soon You (유은순 박사), and is scheduled to take place over a period of two weeks, from December 18th, 2023, to December 29th, 2023.
Dec 18th, 2023 – Dec 29th, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 2nd NS-CUK Winter School on Ethics of AI and Robots. This program consists of 9 lectures presented by Dr. Eun-Soon You (유은순 박사), and is scheduled to take place over a period of two weeks, from December 18th, 2023, to December 29th, 2023.
Dec 18th, 2023
- We started participating in an industry-academic cooperation project on “Development of AI-powered Algorithms to Build Smart Cart System,” funded by Pixel Inc. (Jan 2024 – Dec 2026, 150 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Prof. Kang-Min Kim, Prof. Youjin Shin, Prof. Keunsoo Ko, and their teams.
Dec 11th, 2023
- We started participating in a Scale-up TIPS project on “Development of Underground Burial Analysis Technology and System using Ground Penetrating Radar and Artificial Intelligence,” led by Movements Inc. and funded by Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) (Jan 2024 – Dec 2026, 1,140 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Prof. Kang-Min Kim, Prof. Youjin Shin, Prof. Keunsoo Ko, and their teams.
Dec 10th, 2023
- This year, NS-CUK successfully submitted two research papers to the AAAI, which is one of the most prestigious conferences in AI fields, and were accepted.
- Van Thuy Hoang, O-Joun Lee: Transitivity-Preserving Graph Representation Learning for Bridging Local Connectivity and Role-based Similarity. The 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024), Vancouver, Canada; 02/2024.
- Hyeon-Ju Jeon, Jeon-Ho Kang, In-Hyuk Kwon, O-Joun Lee: Explainable Graph Neural Networks for Observation Impact Analysis in Atmospheric State Estimation. The Explainable Machine Learning for Sciences Workshop (XAI4Sci) held in conjunction with the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024), Vancouver, Canada; 02/2024.
Nov 28th, 2023
- The 2023 Winter CUK AI Professor-Student Meeting was held.
Nov 16th, 2023
- The 2023 CUK AI Mentoring Day was held.
Nov 3rd, 2023
- The research collaboration between NS@CUK and BU@PKNU on acoustic signal analysis with deep learning has been presented as two posters at ACK 2023.
- Daehun Kim, Hyeon-Ju Jeon, O-Joun Lee, Hae Gyun Lim: Development of an Automatic Monitoring System for Ultrasound Signals Using Artificial Intelligence and Convolutional Neural Networks. The 2023 Annual Conference of Korea Information Processing Society, Busan, Korea; 11/2023 (Poster; in Korean)
- So Yeon Moon, Hyeon-Ju Jeon, Yeongho Sung, Min-Seo Kim, Daehun Kim, Jaeyeop Choi, Junghwan Oh, O-Joun Lee, Hae Gyun Lim: Dual-mode diagnosis system for water quality and corrosion in pipe using convolutional neural networks (CNN) and ultrasound. The 2023 Annual Conference of Korea Information Processing Society, Busan, Korea; 11/2023 (Poster; in Korean)
Sep 26th, 2023
- The 2023 Fall CUK AI Professor-Student Meeting was held.
Sep 22nd, 2023
- We started participating in a commissioned research project on “A study on the application and use of generative AI to support the process of the prosecution,” funded by Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of the Republic of Korea (Oct 2023 – Dec 2023, 80 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Prof. Youjin Shin, Prof. Kang-Min Kim, and their teams.
Sep 5th, 2023
- The research collaboration between NS@CUK and BU@PKNU on cell property analysis with deep learning has been presented as two posters at IEEE IUS 2023.
- Jeong Eun Lee, Hyeon-Ju Jeon, O-Joun Lee, Hae Gyun Lim: Blood Glucose Classification Using high-Frequency Ultrasound and Artificial Intelligence. The 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IEEE IUS 2023), Montreal, Canada; 09/2023 (Poster)
- Ji Won Nam, Hyeon-Ju Jeon, Jeong Eun Lee, O-Joun Lee, Hae Gyun Lim: Classification of Red Blood Cells for the Diagnosis of dysnatremia Based on Ultrasound and Convolutional Neural Networks. The 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IEEE IUS 2023), Montreal, Canada; 09/2023 (Poster)
Sep 1st, 2023
Aug 29th, 2023 – Dec 5th, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 2023 Fall CUK Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series (2023년 가을 가톨릭대학교 인공지능 세미나) with the Department of AI. This seminar series consists of 13 invited talks given by experts from both the corporate world and research institutions and is scheduled to take place over a period of 15 weeks, from August 29th, 2023, to December 5th, 2023.
Aug 22nd, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK and the Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology (AICT; 차세대융합기술연구원) have successfully organized a joint seminar (The 2023 CUK-AICT Joint Seminar on Artificial Intelligence; 2023년 가톨릭대학교-차세대융합기술연구원 공동 인공지능 세미나) focusing on various application areas of artificial intelligence.
Aug 6th, 2023 – Aug 10th, 2023
- We have participated in ACM RACS 2023, Gdańsk, Poland. We will continue to dedicate ourselves to organizing future conferences sponsored or cooperated by ACM SIGAPP, including ACM RACS and SMA.
Aug 3rd, 2023 – Aug 4th, 2023
- Jooho Lee and Ho Beom Kim participated in a summer school programme of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers on Image Processing and Understanding (2023년 대한전자공학회 영상처리 및 영상이해연구회 합동 여름학교).
Aug 1st, 2023 – Aug 31st, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 1st NS-CUK Summer School on eXtended Reality (NS-CUK XR 2023). This program consists of 9 lectures presented by Yea Som Lee and is scheduled to take place over a period of five weeks, from August 1st, 2023, to August 31st, 2023.
Jul 31st, 2023 – Aug 21st, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 1st NS-CUK Summer School on Technical Writing (NS-CUK TW 2023). This program consists of 10 lectures presented by Dr. Eun-Soon You and is scheduled to take place over a period of five weeks, from July 31st, 2023, to August 21st, 2023.
Jul 28th, 2023
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Min Seo Kim has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
- On a hot summer afternoon,
Jul 20th, 2023
- Jooho Lee, Ho Beom Kim, and Hyo Eun Lee have once again distinguished themselves in the 2023 CUK Competition on Data Analytics, securing the best award for the second consecutive year.
Jul 11th, 2023
- The research collaboration between NS@CUK and AICT on semiconductor device simulation has been presented as a poster at AWAD 2023.
- Minsun Cho, O-Joun Lee, Sungyeop Jung: An Artificial Neural Network-based Compact Model for Organic Field-Effect Transistors with the Gaussian Disorder Model. The 2023 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Advanced Semiconductor Devices (AWAD 2023), Yokohama, Japan; 07/2023 (Poster)
Jul 3rd, 2023 – Jul 31st, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 1st NS-CUK Summer School on Deep Learning with PyTorch (NS-CUK DL 2023). This program consists of 5 lectures presented by Namgyu Jung and is scheduled to take place over a period of five weeks, from July 3rd, 2023, to July 31st, 2023.
Jul 1st, 2023
- We started an industry-academic joint technology development project, affiliated with Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation 3.0 (LINC3.0) on “K-Food/Cosmetics safety evaluation and recommendation solution based on cross-culture knowledge graph,” through NRF of Korea and funded by MOE of Korea (Jul 2023 – Dec 2023, 60 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Shukran Korea Inc.
Jun 29th, 2023
- We attended the 2023 Summer Annual Conference of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers and gave an invited talk on “Semiconductor Design with Graph Neural Networks.”
Jun 27th, 2023 – Jul 27th, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 1st NS-CUK Summer School on Digital Humanities (NS-CUK DH 2023). This program consists of 10 lectures presented by Dr. Eun-Soon You and is scheduled to take place over a period of five weeks, from June 27th, 2023, to July 27th, 2023.
Jun 12th, 2023
Jun 1st, 2023
- The research collaboration between NS@CUK and BU@PKNU on cell property analysis with deep learning has been presented as three posters at ASK 2023 Spring.
- Jeong Eun Lee, Hyeon-Ju Jeon, O-Joun Lee, Hae Gyun Lim: A Potential Tool of Non-Invasive Diabetes Diagnosis using High-Frequency Ultrasound and Convolutional Neural Networks. The 2023 Spring Conference of The Acoustical Society of Korea, Jeju, Korea; 06/2023 (Poster; in Korean)
- Ji Won Nam, Hyeon-Ju Jeon, Jeong Eun Lee, O-Joun Lee, Hae Gyun Lim: Automated Dysnatremia Measurement using Ultrasound Signals and Convolutional Neural Networks. The 2023 Spring Conference of The Acoustical Society of Korea, Jeju, Korea; 06/2023 (Poster; in Korean)
- Daehun Kim, Hyeon-Ju Jeon, Hye Yun Jeong, O-Joun Lee, Hae Gyun Lim: Automatic Monitoring System for Red Tide Detection using Ultrasonic Signals and Convolutional Neural Networks. The 2023 Spring Conference of The Acoustical Society of Korea, Jeju, Korea; 06/2023 (Poster; in Korean)
- We started participating in a commissioned research project on “Analysis of Redundancies and Conflicts in Construction Standards,” funded by Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) (Jun 2023 – Nov 2023, 90 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Prof. Kang-Min Kim, Prof. Youjin Shin, and their teams.
May 15th, 2023
May 4th, 2023
- Hye-Min Kim has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
Apr 29th, 2023
- Our undergraduate research assistants presented two papers at the 2023 Conference of Korea Institute of Smart Media (KISM 2023).
Apr 24th, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK released a novel graph representation learning framework, Connector, which is developed in Python using the PyTorch library. Connector Ver. 0.5 is a test release that will be further developed to enable researchers from different fields to apply graph representation learning models to their research. Connector is available at:
Apr 21st, 2023
- The research collaboration between NS@CUK and BU@PKNU on cell property analysis with deep learning has been introduced as a poster at Samsung Global Technology Symposium.
- Jeong Eun Lee, Hyeon-Ju Jeon, O-Joun Lee, Hae Gyun Lim: High-frequency ultrasound and convolutional neural network: A Potential tool for diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Samsung Global Technology Symposium, Seoul, Korea; 04/2023 (Poster; in Korean)
Apr 19th, 2023
- The briefing session for AI@CUK graduate admissions was successfully organized, and we would like to express our gratitude for the attendees’ attention.
Apr 11th, 2024
- We started an intramural research project on “Topography-aware Wind Speed and Direction Forecasting System based on Multi-modal Spatio-temporal Graph Neural Networks,” funded by The Catholic University of Korea (Mar 2023 – Feb 2024, 7 Mil KRW).
Mar 28th, 2023
- Seung Charlie Kim, the CEO/Founder of Shukran Korea Inc., was invited to give a talk to the students of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Catholic University of Korea.
Mar 16th, 2023
Feb 16th, 2023
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Sangmyeong Lee received his B.S. degree in Physics.
Feb 7th, 2023
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Yu Jin Yang has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
Feb 6th, 2023
- Min-Woo Choi has joined NS Lab@CUK as a Ph.D. course student.
Jan 26th – 27th, 2023
- We successfully organized the 1st CUK Annual Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (CUK AI Colloquium 2022) at Seoul, Korea, by collaborating with other labs in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, the Catholic University of Korea.
Jan 16th, 2023
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Hyo Eun Lee has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
Jan 3rd, 2023
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AIM (Artificial Intelligence Master), a student-run academic society affiliated with the Department of AI at CUK, has been founded as a sister society of NS Lab@CUK.
- President: Se Eun Cho
- Vice-President: Ho Beom Kim
2022
Dec 21th, 2022
- Ho Beom Kim has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
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Dec 19th, 2022 – Jan 27th, 2023
- NS Lab@CUK organizes the 1st NS-CUK Winter School on Ethics of AI and Robots (AI Ethics 2022), which consists of 18 lectures given by Dr. Eun-Soon You.
Dec 17th, 2022
- Sangmyeong Lee will leave to join Hanyang University as a graduate student.
- Jooho Lee will leave for a while to participate in the winter internship program of DSTI Co., Ltd.
Dec 16th – 17th, 2022
- We successfully organized Computing4Human 2022 at Hanoi, Vietnam, by collaborating with International School, Vietnam National University.
- Program Book
- Proceedings
Dec 13th, 2022
- Jooho Lee and Se Eun Cho participated in the 2022 CUK Competition on Data Analytics and won the best award.
Oct 7th, 2022
- We have our new logo. 🎉🎉
Oct 1st, 2022
- We started a research project on “Organizing Korea-EU Research Group for (Semi-) Automated Diagnostics Support System based on Medical Knowledge Graph Mining,” supported by the Korea-EU Cooperation Promotion Program through NRF of Korea and funded by MSIT of Korea (Oct 2022 – Sep 2023, 25 Mil KRW).
Sep 7th, 2022
- Sangmyeong Lee has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
Sep 1st, 2022
- We started an intramural research project on “Research Team Formation based on Bibliographic Network Embedding,” funded by The Catholic University of Korea (Sep 2022 – Aug 2023, 7 Mil KRW).
Aug 29th, 2022
- Van Thuy Hoang, Phuc Vinh Bui, and Sang Thanh Nguyen have joined NS Lab@CUK as a Ph.D. course student, an MS/Ph.D. combined course student, and an MS course student, respectively.
Aug 1st, 2022
- We started participating in an industry-academic cooperation project on “Conversational Interface and Menu Recommendation System for Robot Cafe,” funded by Order Queen Co., Ltd. (Aug 2022 – Nov 2022, 30 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Prof. Kang-Min Kim and his team.
Jul 15th, 2022
- We attended The 2022 Summer Workshop of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing and gave an invited talk on “Character Network Embedding for Computational Narrative Analytics.”
Jun 24th, 2022
- Our undergraduate research assistants presented two papers at the 2022 Conference of Korea Institute of Smart Media (KISM) and won the best paper award.
Jun 1st, 2022
- We started a research project on “Multi-modal Transformer Model for Self-supervised Representation Learning of Dynamic Heterogeneous Networks,” supported by the Basic Science Research Program through NRF of Korea and funded by MSIT of Korea (Jun 2022 – Feb 2025, 132 Mil KRW).
May 27th, 2022
- We successfully finished an interim result presentation of the industry-academic cooperation project on “Development of Veterinary Information Services based on Chatbot,” funded by IntoCNS Co., Ltd. (Feb 2022 – Oct 2022, 150 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Prof. Kang-Min Kim and his team.
May 15th, 2022
May 13th, 2022
- We successfully finished a final result presentation of the industry-academic cooperation project on “Chatbot-based Kiosk Interface and Menu Recommendation System,” funded by Order Queen Co., Ltd. (Feb 2022 – Apr 2022, 10 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Prof. Kang-Min Kim and his team.
Apr 20th, 2022
- Yeongmin Kim has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
Apr 1st, 2022
- We started participating in the Next-generation Intelligence-Type Semiconductor Development Program on “Development of ML-based multi scale simulation platform for designing and optimizing ReRAM crossbar array (CBA) circuits for AI semiconductors,” supported by NRF of Korea and funded by MSIT of Korea (Apr 2022 – Dec 2024, 550 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Dr. Sungyeop Jung at Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology.
Mar 16th, 2022
Feb 7th, 2022
- We started an industry-academic cooperation project on “Development of Veterinary Information Services based on Chatbot,” funded by IntoCNS Co., Ltd. (Feb 2022 – Oct 2022, 150 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Prof. Kang-Min Kim and his team.
Jan 26th, 2022
- We started an industry-academic cooperation project on “Chatbot-based Kiosk Interface and Menu Recommendation System,” funded by Order Queen Co., Ltd. (Feb 2022 – Apr 2022, 10 Mil KRW), by cooperating with Prof. Kang-Min Kim and his team.
Jan 4th, 2022
- Se Eun Cho has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
2021
Dec 15th, 2021
- Jiyoon Song has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
Dec 3rd, 2021
- Hyebin Ahn has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
Nov 11th, 2021
- Jooho Lee has joined as an undergraduate researcher.
Oct 27th – 28th, 2021
- We successfully organized Computing4Human 2021 at Danang, Vietnam, by collaborating with University of Economics - The University of Danang.
Sep 1st, 2021
- Network Science Lab, CUK has been founded.
- We started an intramural research project on “Research Team Formation based on Bibliographic Network Embedding,” funded by The Catholic University of Korea (Sep 2021 – Aug 2022, 7 Mil KRW).
Before then
Feb 15th, 2020
- We successfully organized Computing4Human 2020 at Pohang, Rep. of Korea.
