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"I like making things easier to use, understand, and learn"

- What fascinates me is how people perceive, interpret, understand, communicate, reason, and acquire information




    News

  • 02/19 2018 Visited Inria-Bordeaux, France [photo#1] [photo#2]
  • 01/10 2018 Submitted Alien Invasion skill for Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge: Kids
  • 09/01 2017 Joined CrowdLab at Univ. of Waterloo as PhD student in Computer Science!
  • 05/06 2017 Attended CHI 2017 (Denver, USA)
  • 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


    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]

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