Wook-Shin Han     Full Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate School of AI, /Dept. of Creative IT Engineering POSTECH      Email: wshan.postechATgmail.com Calendar:

 Professional Experience

• 2013.7-present    Full Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering/Dept. of Creative IT Engineering, POSTECH
• 2003.3- 2013.7    Associate Professor (Tenured), Computer Engineering Department, Kyungpook National University.
• 2008.1- 2012.8    Director, Institute of IT-Gifted Youth, Kyungpook National University.
• 2005.8- 2006.8    Post-Doctoral Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center 
•                            (worked on progressive optimization in the parallel DB2 DBMS).
• 2002.9- 2003.2   Research Professor, Advanced Information Technology Research Center, KAIST.
• 2002.7                Visiting Scholar, Software Technology Lab, HP Labs.
• 2001.9 - 2002.8  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Advanced Information Technology Research Center, KAIST.
• 2001.7 - 2001.8  Visiting Student, Software Technology Lab, HP Labs.
• 2000.7 - 2000.8  Visiting Student, Dept. Computer Science, Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
• 1999.7 - 1999.8  Visiting Student, Dept. Computer Science, Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
• 1997.7 - 1997.8  Visiting Student, Dept. Computer Science, Stanford University, California, U.S.A.

Professional Activities

 Journal Editors

• Associate Editor, PVLDB 2022, 2021.4 - 2022.3
• Associate Editor, VLDB Journal, Sept. 2015 - Present 
• Associate Editor, PVLDB 2018, 2017.4 - 2018.7 
• Associate Editor, Information Sciences, 2013 - Present
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2009 - 2013 
• Associate Editor,  Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE), 2007 - Present
• Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2007 - 2011.5
• Special Guest Editor, Distributed and Parallel Databases, 2016.7 - 2017.4
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal for Infonomics, 2003 – Present
• Editorial Board Member, KIISE Computing Practices and Letters, 2011 - Present

• Demo Co-Chair, the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Taiwan, 2021
• Senior Program Committee Member, the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Beijing, China, November 2019
• PC Area Vice Chair, the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Macau SAR, China, April 2019
• Senior Program Committee Member, the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Seattle, USA, December 2018
• Senior Program Committee Member, the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Turin, Italy, October 2018
• Senior Program Committee Member, the Asia Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM), Macau, China, July 2018
• Senior Program Committee Member, the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Boston, USA, December 2017
• Senior Program Committee Member, the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Singapore, Singapore, November 2017
• Senior Program Committee Member, the Asia Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM), Beijing, China, July 2017
• Tutorial Co-Chair, the 18th International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), Suzhou, China, September 2016 
• Senior Program Committee Member, the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Melbourne, Australia, October 2015 
• Demo Co-Chair, International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Shandong, China, June 2015 
• Program Committee Co-chair, International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), Jeju Island, Korea, February 2015 
• Industrial Program Committee Co-chair, the 31st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2015 
• Workshop Co-chair, the 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Bali, Indonesia, April 2014
• Poster chair, the 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Brisbane, Australia, April 2013 
• Demo Co-Chair, the 15th International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), Sydney, Australia, April 2013 
• Tutorial Co-chair, the 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Busan, Korea, April 2012
• Workshop Co-chair, the 13th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), Beijing, China, April 2011
• Program Committee Co-chair, the 12th International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), Busan, Korea, April 2010
• Workshop Co-chair, ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM), Hong Kong, October 2009

• SIGMOD:  2022, 2021, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010 (demo)
• VLDB: 2020, 2019, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2010, 2010 (demo), 2009
• KDD: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
• ICDE:  2021, 2019 (industrial), 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2003
• EDBT: 2018, 2017
• WWW: 2019, 2013, 2012, 2011 
• CIKM: 2016, 2013 (demo), 2012, 2011,2009

• Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, VLDB Journal
• External Reviewer: APWEB 2004, DASFAA 2004, VLDB 2003, VLDB 2002, ACM CIKM 2002, COOPIS 2002, IDEAS 2002

Research Interests