Members
Professor
Prof. Sang Kyun Cha
Founding Dean of Seoul National University Graduate School of Data Science (2020.1 ~ Present)
Career
SNU School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor (1992 ~ Present)
ADeKo Vice-Chair of Board (2017 ~ Present)
Shinhan Investment Corp. Non Executive Board Member (2019 ~ Present)
AMOREPACIFIC Non Executive Board Member (2020 ~ Present)
Founding Director of SNU Big Data Institute (2014 ~ 2019)
Founding Chief Architect of SAP HANA (2005 ~ 2014)
Managing Director of SNU's Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing Office (2009 ~ 2010)
Director of SNU Automation and Systems Research Institute (2006 ~ 2008)
Transact In Memory, Inc. Founder (2000 ~ 2005)
Stanford University Visiting Associate Professor (2001 ~ 2002)
Education
Ph.D. in Database, AI, NLP, Stanford University (1991)
MS & BS in EE, Seoul National University (1982, 1980)
Contact
942-411, Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University
Email: chask@snu.ac.kr
Homepage: http://kdb.snu.ac.kr/chask/
Secretary: Ms. Aram Lee (Tel: 82-2-880-1132, email: aoverme@snu.ac.kr)
Bio Sketch
Professor Sang Kyun Cha has been the founding dean of the Graduate School of Data Science of Seoul National University since February of 2020. He led the effort of establishing this new graduate school to help transform Korea’s leading higher education institution in the age of data-driven innovation and AI since he took the role of founding director of SNU Big Data Institute in April of 2014.
Before taking this transformative role at the university, Prof. Cha was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded ‘Transact In Memory, Inc.’ in Silicon Valley in early 2000’s based on his research on in-memory data management. After SAP AG’s acquisition of the company in late 2005, he led SAP’s secret research toward SAP HANA and took the role of one of two co-founding chief architects of SAP HANA until early 2014 when his role at SAP was more or less done and the industry shifted toward the in-memory paradigm triggered by SAP HANA.
Professor Cha has been promoting the preemptive transformation of education for the new digital era and has been consulting Korean government on education, research priorities, and innovation strategies. Despite his administrative duties, Prof. Cha still teaches two courses ‘Big Data and Knowledge Management’ and ‘Data-Driven Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. He also runs the university-wide seminar on Data Science inviting speakers globally. He serves as the chair of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Ten-Year Influential Paper Award Committee.
He received his BS and MS from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Ph.D Students
Ilju Lee
B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2010, Hanyang Univ.
M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2012, Seoul Nat'l Univ.
SAP Labs Korea (~2014.02)
Intelligent Infrastructure
Dongkyu Lee
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul Nat'l Univ, 2015
Machine Learning Life Cycle, AI Platform
Van-Duc Le
B.S. Information Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, 2008.
Viettel Telecommunication Group, Vietnam, 2008~2015.
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, 2019.
Big Data Analysis, Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning, Ambient AI
Yunsu Kim
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou Univ, 2015
Database, AI platform, Autonomous Driving, Data Validation
Joohyun Lee
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul Nat'l Univ, 2016
Database, Non-monotonic reasoning, Augmented Intelligence
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joohyun-lee-319253152/
JunHa Chun
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul Nat'l Univ, 2019
Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning
Tien-Cuong Bui
B.S. Information Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2014
Software Engineer, Olbius Vietnam.,JSC, Vietnam, 2014-2016
M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, Seoul Natl Univ., 2019
Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Graph Mining, Intelligent Infrastructure
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-bui-snu/
Hyerim Jeon
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul Nat'l Univ, 2018
Spatio-temporal Data, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
Jongin Kim
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, SNU, in 2016
Database, Augmented Intelligence, AI platform
Hai-Thien To
Ms: Chung Ang University: 2014-2016
- Work at Iforce company and Vietnam Simulation: 2010-2012.
- Freelancer 2012-2014
- Manager at Korea Institute of Building Energy Technology: 2016 - 2018.
- Lecturer at University of Transport Technology / Ministry of Transport in VietNam: 2011 -
Computer Vision, IoT devices, Smart Edge Devices, Federated Learning
https://www.linkedin.com/in/haithienld/
Master Students
Youngjoon Park
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul Nat'l Univ, 2018
Distributed Graph Computation, Graph Partitioning, Distributed Computing, Machine Learning
Tung- Lam Duong
B.S. Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, 2019, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
AI Engineer, Vinsmart, VinGroup, Vietnam, 2018-2019.
AI Engineer, Tinhvan Group, Vietnam, 2019
dtlam26@snu.ac.kr,
www.linkedin.com/in/lamduongtung
Anh-Tung Nguyen
B.S. Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, 2019, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
R&D Engineer, 10/2019 ~ 2/2020, FSI Vietnam
Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Kyuwook Chai
B.S. Physics, Seoul Nat'l Univ, 2013 (Statistics double major)
Patent Attorney (KPAA) 2014. 02. ~
Decision making, Optimization, Graphs kwchai@kdb.snu.ac.kr
https://durianfarmer.github.io/
Jaewon Chang
B.S. in Economics, University of Washington, 2019 (Minor in Mathematics)
Optimization, Planning, Reinforcement Learning
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-jaewon-chang/
Bora Lim
Bachelor of Business, ICT(Information and Culture Technology)
Marketer with 7-year-experience
Startup, Marketing, Planning
Jaehwan Lim
B.S. in Mathematics, Seoul Nat'l Univ, 2019
Startup, Reinforcement Learning, Graph DB
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaehwanlim