I'm a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Waterloo, where I am advised by Edith Law. My research focuses on designing techniques and interactive systems that enable people to learn in a more effortless, effective way. To this end, I often take an interdisciplinary approach, exploring ideas from learning science, cognitive science, and psychology.
- 01/03 2019 Awarded Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Full Grant for my 2-year research project on programming education [description]
- 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
News
- 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
Talks
- 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]