Upcoming

• 09/01 2017 Joining CrowdLab at Univ. of Waterloo as PhD student in Computer Science!
• 05/06 2017 Attending CHI 2017 (Denver, USA)

News

• 07/23 2017 Extended version of "L-EnsNMF" paper accepted at KAIS Journal
• 04/28 2017 "L-EnsNMF" paper accepted to Sister Conference Best Paper Track at IJCAI'17
• 04/25 2017 Accepted "Ontario Trillium Scholarship"
• 12/26 2016 Accepted invitation to submit an abridged version of "L-EnsNMF" to Sister Conference Best Paper Track at IJCAI'17 (Melbourn, Australia)
• 12/25 2016 Accepted invitation to submit an extended version of "L-EnsNMF" to KAIS journal
• 12/14 2016 Received Best Student Paper Award for "L-EnsNMF" at ICDM'16 Banquet [photo#1] [photo#2]
• 12/07 2016 Received 2 Gold Prizes (1st Place) for "L-EnsNMF" (Research paper category) and "ReVACNN" (Software category) from KU Graduate Project Competition
• 12/01 2016 Notified that I will receive Best Student Paper Award for "L-EnsNMF" from ICDM'16!
• 11/15 2016 Student Travel Grant awarded by ICDM'16 committee!
• 11/07 2016 "ReVACNN" Paper accepted to FILIM workshop at NIPS'16!
• 09/07 2016 "L-EnsNMF" Paper accepted to ICDM'16 (8.5% acceptance rate)!
• 08/31 2016 End of internship at Daumsoft
• 08/30 2016 Received $1,000 scholarship for independent research project, "eduWiki"
• 07/01 2016 Start of internship at Daumsoft as Data visualization engineer
• 06/23 2016 "ReVACNN" Paper accepted to KDD-IDEA 2016
• 01/28 2016 Won a prize for SK Creative Challenge with EYEscort at HCI Korea 2016

Talks

• 12/21 2016 L-EnsNMF at KIISE'16 (South Korea)
• 12/13 2016 L-EnsNMF at ICDM'16 (Barcelona, Spain) [video]
• 12/09 2016 ReVACNN at NIPS'16 (Barcelona, Spain) [video] [demo]
• 12/07 2016 ReVACNN & L-EnsNMF at CS department @ KU
• 01/28 2016 EYEscort at HCI Korea'16

Publication

•  Jul. 2017 "Localized User-Driven Topic Discovery via Boosted Ensemble of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization" (Invited publication) [KAIS Journal] [paper]
• Apr. 2017 "Local Topic Discovery via Boosted Ensemble of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization" (Invited publication) [IJCAI'17 Sister Conference Best Paper Track] [paper]
• Nov. 2016 "ReVACNN: Steering Convolutional Neural Network via Real-Time Visual Analytics" [NIPS-FILM'16] [paper] [presentation] [demo]
• Sep. 2016 "L-EnsNMF: Boosted Local Topic Discovery via Ensemble of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization" [ICDM'16] [paper] [presentation] (Best Student Paper Award out of 917 total submissions)
•  July 2016 "ReVACNN: Real-Time Visual Analytics for Convolutional Neural Network" [KDD-IDEA'16] [paper]