Jaeyoung Yang
 
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Jaeyoung Yang

Human Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213


EDUCATION

Hanyang University, Korea
    Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, August 2003
    Dissertation: “Learning-Based Induction of Information Extraction Rules”

Hanyang Univeristy, Korea
    M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, February 2000
    Masters Thesis: “A study on learning mechanism of intelligent agents for building shoppingmall wrappers in electronic commerce”

Hanyang University, Korea
    B.A. in Computer Science and Engineering, February 1998

HONORS

Government Scholarship for Postdoc., 2007-2008
    Supported by Korea Reseach Foundation (KRF)

Marquis Who’sWho in the World (25th Edition), 2008
    Listed

ABI Great Minds of the 21th Century (2007/2008 Edition), 2007
    Listed

IBC Leading Engineers of the World 2007, 2007
    Listed

Marquis Who’sWho in Asia (First Edition), 2006
    Listed

EXPERIENCES

Carnegie Mellon University, Dec. 2007 - Current
    Postdoc. Human-Computer Interaction Institute in School of Computer Science
    (Advisor: Prof.Anind K. Dey)

Hanyang University, Fall semester 2007
    Part-time Lecturer in Computer Science and Engineering
    (ECC412: Information Retrieval and Text Mining)

Korea Wisenut Co. Ltd., 2006-2007
    Director of Solution Center, Wisenut Korea Laboratory

Korea Association of RFID/USN, 2006
    Committee member of Ubiquitous Sensor Network
    NOTE: USN used in Korea is an equivalent term to WSN (Wireless Sensor Network).

Dongbu Information and Technology, 2005-2006
    Jr. Consultant, Consulting Business Unit.

Openbase Co. Ltd., 2003-2005
    Principle Researcher, Openbase Laboratory

Hanyang University, 1999-2000
    Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

PUBLICATIONS

International papers
  • J. Kang, J. Yang, J. Choi, Data Clustering algorithm based on Grid-shaking, The 2009 IEEE MAW-09. (submitted)
  • D. Shin, j. Kang, J. Yang, J. Choi, Detecting Collaborative Fields Using Social Networks, 4th International Conference on Networked Computing and Advanced Information Management (NCM2008), Gyeongju, 2008.
  • E. Lee, J. Kang, K. Yang, J.Choi, Scalable Web News Adaptation to Mobile Devices Using Visual Block Segmentation for Ubiquitous Media Services, 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering(MUE07), pp. 620-625, 2007.
  • E. Lee, J. Kang, J. Yang, J. Choi, Topic-Specific Web Content Adaptation to Mobile Devices, The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI06), Hong Kong, 2006.
  • J. Kang, K. Hong, J. Yang, Je. Park, T. Kim, Ju Park, J. Choi, An Enhanced Feature Selection Method for Text Classification, The IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence, San Francisco, 2006.
  • J. Yang, J. Kang, J. Choi, A Focused Crawler with Document Segmentation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3578, pp. 94-101, 2005
  • J. Yang, T. Kim, J. Choi, An Interface Agent for Wrapper-Based Information Extraction, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3371, pp. 291-302, 2005
  • J. Yang, H. Jung, J. Choi, Building Web Navigation Agents Using Domain-Specific Ontologies, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3371, pp. 303-316, 2005.
  • H. Jung, J. Yang, J. Choi, Ontology-Based Web Navigation Assistant, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3177, pp. 443-448, 2004.
  • J. Yang, J. Choi, Agents for Intelligent Information Extraction By Using Domain Knowledge and Token-based Morphological Patterns, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2891, pp. 74-85,2003.
  • J. Yang, J. Kim, K. Doh, J. Choi, Wrapper Generation by Using XML-Based Domain Knowledge for Intelligent Information Extraction, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2417, pp. 472-481,2002.
  • J. Yang, H. Oh, K. Doh, J. Choi, A Knowledge-Based Information Extraction System for Semi-Structured Labeled Documents, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2412, pp. 105-110, 2002.
  • J. Yang, H. Seo, and J. Choi, MORPHEUS: A Customized Comparison Shopping Agent, 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents-2001), pp. 63-64, Montreal, Canada, 2001.
  • H. Seo, J. Yang, and J. Choi, Building Intelligent Systems for Mining Information Extraction Rules from Web Pages by Using Domain Knowledge, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (IEEE-ISIE 2001), pp. 322-327, Pusan, Korea, 2001.
  • H. Seo, J. Yang, and J. Choi, Knowledge-based Wrapper Generation by Using XML, IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM 2001), pp. 1-8, Seattle, USA, 2001.
  • Yang, H. Seo, N. Koo, J. Choi, J. Kim, S. Kim, K. Lee, and H. Ham, A More Scalable Comparison Shopping Agent, Engineering of Intelligent Systems(EIS 2000), pp. 766-772, Paisely, Scotland, 2000.
  • J. Yang, E. Lee, and J. Choi, A Shopping Agent that Automatically Constructs Wrappers for Semi-Structured Online Vendors, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1983, pp. 368-373, 2000.
Domestic papers (In Korean)
  • C. Cho, N. Lee, J. Kang, J. Yang, J. Choi, A Focused Crawler by Segmentation of Context Information, Journal of Korea Information Processing Society (B), vol.12, no.6, pp. 697-702, 2005.
  • Y. Kim, J. Yang, J. Choi, Automatic Generation of Information Extraction Rules Through Userinterface Agents, Journal of Korea Information Science Society: Software and Applications, vol.31, no.4, pp. 447-456, 2004.
  • H. Jung, J. Yang, J. Choi, An Ontology-based Recommendation Agent for Personalized Web Navigation, Journal of Korea Information Science Society: Software and Applications, vol.30, no.1-2, pp. 40-50, 2003.
  • H. Seo, J. Yang, J. Choi, A Knowledge-based Wrapper Learning Agent for Semi-Structured Information Sources, Journal of Korea Information Science Society: Software and Applications, vol. 29, no.1-2, pp. 42-52, 2002.
  • J. Yang, T. Kim, J. Choi, MORPHEUS: A More Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent, Journal of Korea Information Science Society: Software and Applications, vol.28, no.2, pp. 179-191, 2001.
  • E. Lee, J. Kang, J. Yang, J. Choi, Topic-Specific Mobile Web Content Adaptation through Learning, Proc. 32nd KISS Fall Conference (II), pp. 682-684, 2005.
  • J. Kang, J. Yang, J. Choi, An Enhanced Feature Selection Method Using the Impurity of Words, Proc. 32nd KISS Fall Conference (II), pp. 679-681, 2005.
  • K. Choi, H. Kim, J. Kang, K. Hong, J. Yang, J. Choi, A Focused Crawler Using Sentence Analysis and Ontology, Proc. 31st KISS Fall Conference (II), pp. 100-102, 2004.
  • J. Park, Y. Kim, C. Choi, J. Yang, J. Choi, A Composite Web Document Discovery Service Using Query Classification, Proc. 31st KISS Fall Conference (II), pp. 142-144, 2004.
  • Park, K. Choi, J. Han, W. Choi, J. Yang, J. Choi, A Web-based Document Classifier Using Naive Classification Method, Proc. 11th KIPS(Korea Information Processing Society) Spring Conference (I), pp. 343-346, 2004.
  • W. Choi, J. Yang, J. Choi, H.K. Cho, H.S. Cho, K. Kim, A Service Discovery Algorithm based on Ontology Hierarchy, Proc. 30th KISS Fall Conference (I), pp. 28-30, 2003.
  • S. Kang, J. Yang, S. Yang, W. Choi, J. Choi, Automatic Generation of RDF Metadata for Semantic Search in Semantic Web, Proc. KIISS Fall Conference, pp. 311-320, 2002.
  • H. Gu, J. Yang, K. Hong, J. Choi, Discovery and Recommendation of User Search Patterns from Web Data, Proc. KIISS Falll Conference, pp. 287-296, 2002.
  • H. Jang, Y. Lee, J. Ahn, K. Hong, J. Yang, J. Choi, A Study on Constructing Knowledge Management Architecture in Semiconductor Business, Proc. KIISS (Korean Intelligent Information Systems Society) Fall Conference, pp. 193-202, 2002.
  • S. Kang, J. Yang, J. Choi, An Ontology-based Annotation System for Semantic Web, Proc. 29th KISS Fall Conference (II), pp. 298-300, 2002.
  • J. Yang, H. Jung, J. Choi, An Agent for High-Level Recommendation of Web Pages Using Domain-Specific Ontologies, Proc. HCI 2002 Conference, 2002.
  • Y. Kim, J. Yang, J. Choi, Trainable Interface Agents for Information Extraction, Proc. 28th KISS Fall Conference (II), pp. 61-63, 2001.
  • H. Jung, J. Yang, J. Choi, An Ontology-based Recommendation Agent for Personalized Web Navigation, Proc. 28th KISS Fall Conference (II), pp. 58-60, 2001.
  • H. Seo, J. Yang, H. Jung, J. Choi, An Information Integration Agent Using Automatic Wrapper Generation for Semi-structured Documents, Proc. of HCI 2001 Conference, pp. 794-799, 2001.
  • J. Yang, H. Seo, J. Choi, Collaborative Change Tracking Agent, Proc. 27th KISS Fall Conference (II), pp. 45-47, 2000.
  • H. Seo, J. Yang, H. Jung, J. Choi, Automatic Wrapper Generation Agent based on XML, Proc. 27th KISS Fall Conference (II), pp. 48-50, 2000.
  • J. Yang, J. Choi, J. Kim, A Comparison Shopping Agent System, Proc. of HCI 2000 Conference, pp. 851-856, 2000.
  • H. Seo, J. Yang, N. Koo, J. Choi, An Interface Agent for Creating Information Extraction Rules and Ontology in Electronic Commerce, Proc. 26th KISS Fall Conference (II), pp 30-32, 1999.
  • Yang, K. Hong, J. Choi, An Intelligent Collaborative Information Filtering Agent for Efficient Information Filtering, Proc. 26th KISS Fall Conference (II), pp 69-71, 1999.
  • N. Koo, J. Yang, H. Seo, J. Choi, A Shopping-Mall Learning Agent for Comparison Shopping, Proc. 26th KISS Fall Conference (II), pp 78-80, 1999.
Book Chapter
  • J. Yang and J. Choi, Knowledge-Based Wrapper Induction for Intelligent Web Information Extraction, Web Intelligence, Chapter 8, Springer, 2003.
Patent
  • System and online method for recognition on human activity based on activity theory, Application # 10-2008-0129680, 2008, Korea (PatentPending)
  • Apparatus and method for context-based keyword recommendation for on-line advertisement, Application # 10-2007-0080829, 2007, Korea (Patent Pending)
  • Information extraction agent system for preventing copyright infringements and method for providinginformation thereof, Patent number:10-2000-0032789, Korea

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    Member: SIGIR, SIGKEE, SIGART, SIGMOD, SIGWEB

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    Member: Computer Society

Web Intelligence Consortium
    Research Member of Korea Center

Korea Information Science Society (KISS)
    Member: SIGAI

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Artificial Intelligence
    Knowledge Representation, Inference, Machine Learning
Data Engineering
    Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Semantic Web, Ontology
Ubiquitous Computing
    Context-Awareness, Context-based Service Discovery, Recognition and Prediction of Human Activity