Graphs illustrate intricate patterns in our perception of the world and ourselves; graph mining enhances this comprehension by highlighting overlooked details.
Research Experience
- Jun 2025 – Present: Head of AI Center, JinJin System Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea
- Sep 2021 – Present: Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, 
The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea - Sep 2019 – Aug 2021: Researcher,
Future IT Innovation Laboratory, 
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea
Education
- Mar 2015 – Aug 2019: Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering,
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
- Under the supervision of Prof. Jason J. Jung within the
Knowledge Engineering Lab
- Under the supervision of Prof. Jason J. Jung within the
- Mar 2011 – Feb 2015: B.Eng. in Software Science,
Dankook University, Yongin, Korea
Awards
- Jun 2022: Best Paper Award, The 2022 Conference of Korea Institute of Smart Media (KISM), Daejeon, Korea
- Apr 2019: Best Paper Award, The 2019 Spring Conference of Korea Institute of Smart Media (KISM), Chungju, Korea
- Sep 2017: Best Paper Award, The 2nd International Workshop in Data Mining on IoT Systems (DaMIS 2017), Lund, Sweden
- Aug 2017: Best Poster Award, The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2017), Seoul, Korea
- Nov 2016: Best Paper Award, The 7th EAI International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications (BDTA 2016), Seoul, Korea
- Nov 2015: Best Paper Award, The 4th EAI International Conference on Context-Aware Systems and Applications (ICCASA 2015), Vung Tau, Vietnam
Publications
- Detailed information is available at this [link].
Patents
- Detailed information is available at this [link].
Research Grants
- Detailed information is available at this [link].
Academic Activities
Membership
- 대한의용생체공학회, 학술위원, 2026
- 한국정보과학회 데이터소사이어티, 이사, since Feb 2025
- 한국스마트미디어학회, 상임이사, since Jan 2023
- 한국차세대컴퓨팅학회, 이사, since Jan 2023
Editorship
- Editorial Board Member, Academia AI and Applications, since May 2025
- Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, Special Issue on “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Human Information Analysis.”
- Academic Editor, Plos One, since Dec 2022
- Guest Editor, Sensors, Special Issue on “Machine Learning and AI for Medical Data Analysis.”
- Corresponding Guest Editor, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Special Issue on “Multimedia Content Analysis for Explainable Recommendation and Retrieval (RACS 2020).”
- Corresponding Guest Editor, Sustainability, Special Issue on “Human-Centric Urban Services.”
Conference Committee
- Program Committee Member, The 35th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026), Rome, Italy, 11/2026.
- Program Committee Member, The 32nd SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2026), Jeju, Korea, 08/2026.
- Program Committee Member, The 31st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2026), Jeju, Korea, 04/2026.
- Track Committee Member, The Renewable and Sustainable Energy (RSE) Track at the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2026), Thessaloniki, Greece, 03/2026.
- Program Committee Member, The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), Singapore, 01/2026.
- Track Chair, The 2025 RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (RIVF 2025), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 12/2025.
- Program Committee Member, The 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025), Seoul, Korea, 11/2025.
- Track Committee Member, The Renewable and Sustainable Energy (RSE) Track at the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2025), Catania, Italy, 03/2025.
- Poster Session Chair, The 2024 ACM International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (RACS 2024), Pompeii, Italy, 10/2024.
- Program Committee Chair, The 4th International Conference on Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (Computing4Human 2023), Hanoi, Vietnam, 12/2023.
- Program Committee Chair, The 3rd International Conference on Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (Computing4Human 2022), Hanoi, Vietnam, 12/2022.
- Program Committee Chair, The 2nd International Conference on Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (Computing4Human 2021), Danang, Vietnam, 10/2021.
- Program Committee Member, Artificial Inteligence for Narratives Workshop (AI4Narrative) held in conjunction with the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020), 07/2020.
- Committee Member, The 1st International Workshop on Computational Humanities and Social Sciences (Computing4Human 2020), Pohang, Korea, 02/2020.
- Track Committee Member, The SFECS track at the 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2020), Brno, Czech Republic, 03/2020.
- Committee Member, The 9th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2019), Seoul, Korea, 06/2019.
- Program Committee Member, The 8th EAI International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications (BDTA 2017), Gwangju, Korea, 11/2017.
- Committee Member, The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2017), Seoul, Korea, 08/2017.
- Workshop Chair, The 1st International Workshop on Digital Humanity with Big Data (DiHuBiDa 2016), affiliated with the 7th EAI International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications (BDTA 2016), Seoul, Korea, 11/2016.
Peer Review
- Reviewer, Computers, since Sep 2020
- Reviewer, Complexity, since Aug 2020
- Reviewer, Technology in Society, since Aug 2020
- Reviewer, Symmetry, since Aug 2020
- Reviewer, Applied Sciences, since Jun 2020
- Reviewer, Plos One, since Apr 2020
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, since Feb 2020
- Reviewer, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, since Dec 2019
- Reviewer, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Humanities, since Oct 2019
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, since Jul 2019
- Reviewer, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, since Jun 2019
- Reviewer, Smart Media Journal, since Apr 2019
- Reviewer, Open Engineering, since Jan 2019
- Reviewer, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, since Jan 2019
- Reviewer, International Journal of Information Management, since Dec 2018
- Reviewer, IEEE Access, since Jul 2018
- Reviewer, Future Generation Computer Systems, since Nov 2017
- Reviewer, Multimedia Tools and Applications, since Aug 2017
- Reviewer, PeerJ Computer Science, since Mar 2016
Non-Academic Activities
- 가톨릭대학교 유도부, 지도교수, since Mar 2026
- 가톨릭대학교 교수협의회, 운영위원, 2026
- 가톨릭대학교 클라이밍 동아리(클라임홀릭), 지도교수, since Mar 2025