Migyeong Kang

Education

Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea (Mar 2021 – Present)

• Ph.D Candidate in Applied Artificial Intelligence

• Advisor: Prof. Jinyoung Han

Sungshin Women's University, Republic of Korea  (Mar 2016 – Feb 2021)

• Bachelor of Science in Statistics

Sungshin Women's University, Republic of Korea  (June 2017 – Feb 2021)

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Software

Professional Experience

University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, USA (Sep 2024 - Mar 2025)

• Visiting Scholar in Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

• Advisor: Prof. Haewoon Kwak, Prof Jisun An

Publication

(* = (co-)corresponding author, ** = equal contributions) 

[ Conference & Journals ] 

• Show your Mind: Unveiling User Experience on an AI-based Mental Health Assessment System with Symptom-based Evidences - Won, H.**, Kang, M.**, Kim, M., Lee, D., Choi, H., Kim, Y., … & Han, J*.  In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-11).

• CURE: Context- and Uncertainty Aware Mental Disorder Detection - Kang, M., Choi, G., Jeon, H., An, J., Choi, D.*, Han, J.* EMNLP 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

• Poster: ISOML: Inter-Service Online Meta-Learning for Newly Emerging Network Traffic Prediction - Kang, M.**, Jung, J.**, Cho, M., Choi, D., Park, E., Pack, S., Han, J*. ACM Mobisys 2024 - The 22nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

• Network Data Generation using IP2Vec Embedding - Kim, M., Kang, M., Park, E., Pack, S., & Han, J.* ICTC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on ICT Convergence

• Detecting depression on video logs using audiovisual features - Min, K., Yoon, J., Kang, M., Lee, D., Park, E., & Han, J.* HSSComms 2023 - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10, 788 (SSCI, JCR 2022 IF=3.5)

• Detecting Suicide Risks with a Contextual Graph Neural Network - Lee, D., Kang, M., Kim, M., & Han, J.* CLPsych 2022 - The 8th Workshop on Computational Linguistics & Clinical Psychology

[ Domestic ] 

• A Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Human Preference Alignment in Large Language Models - Kang, M.**, Cho, M., Ju, S., Yang, S., Kang, C., Won, H., Jeong, S., Choi, G., Han, J*. Korea Computer Congress (KCC) 2025.

• Hey GPT, Can You Tell What's Stressing Me Out? Comparing LLM's Ability to Detect Stress with Traditional ML Models - Choi, G.**, Kang, M., Han, J.*, and S. Shyam Sundar. The Korean Artificial Intelligence Association Fall Conference (KAIA) 2024. 

• Performance Analysis on Generative Adversarial Models based on Network Data Kim, M.**, Kang, M., Park, E., Pack, S., & Han, J.* JCCI 2023 The 33rd Joint Conference on Communications and Information

• Developing Depression Detection Model using Social Media Video Data Min, K.**, Kang, M., Yoon, J., Lee, D., & Han, J.* JCCI 2022 The 32nd Joint Conference on Communications and Information

• Toward Natural and Intelligible Speech Synthesis: An Empirical Study on Transfer Learning." Kang, C.**, Yoon, J., Lee, D., Kang, M., Lim, S., Jung, J., Son, Sejung, Han, J.* The Korean Institute of Broadcast and Media Engineers Conference Proceedings Jul. 2023

Research Project

• [Jun 2025 - May 2028] Development of an Explainable Artificial Intelligence Model based on Large Language Models for Predicting Suicide Risks by Mental Disorders, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

• [Apr 2025 - Dec 2026] Development and commercialization of multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) digital medical devices for diagnosis and interventional treatment of depression and anxiety disorders, funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE)

• [Jul 2024 - Dec 2026] Pioneer Research Group for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT)

• [Apr 2024 - Dec 2026] Development of Reliable, Secure, and Safe Human-Al Alignment Techniques, funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT)

• [Jun 2021 - Feb 2024] Study on Self-Driving B5G Networks towards Federated Private-5G, National Research Foundation of Korea, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

• [Jun 2021 - Aug 2021] Developing Artificial Intelligence Application Models and Constructing a Dataset for solving social issues, funded by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Teaching Fellow

[ Teaching Assistance ]

Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

• DIM5004: Interactive Graph Mining, Graduate Course (Spring, 2025)

• DIM5004: Interactive Graph Mining, Graduate Course (Spring, 2024)

• DIM5004: Interactive Graph Mining, Graduate Course (Fall, 2023)

• AAI3005: Data Mining, Undergraduate Course (Fall, 2023)

• DAI5019: Graph Mining, Graduate Course (Spring, 2023)

• DAI5019: Graph Mining, Graduate Course (Fall, 2022)

National Information Society Agency (NIA), Seoul, South Korea

• Generative AI Technology Trends Lecture (Jul, 2024)

[Directed Students]

Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

Undergraduate Research Program (URP), Tutor

• Development of Counseling Models and Interactive Web Platform (Fall, 2024) 

• Symptom Identification using Large Language Models (Spring, 2024) 

• Symptom Identification for Detecting Mental Disorders (Winter, 2024) 

• Network Traffic Prediction with Low-Resource Network (Fall, 2023)

National Information Society Agency (NIA), Seoul, South Korea

• AI Utilizing Analysis Infrastructure: Middle/High School Online Real-Time Course, Instructor (Fall, 2023)

• Data Creator Camp (DCC), Mentor, K-ICT Big Data Center (Fall, 2023) 

• Data Creator Camp (DCC), Mentor, K-ICT Big Data Center (Fall, 2022) 

Patent & Software

[ Patent ]

Apparatus of Detecting Mental Disorder and Method Thereof (정신 질환 탐지 장치 및 방법)

• Han, J., Kang, M., An, J.

• Application No. : 10-2023-0180440

•  Filing Date: 2025. 05. 27.

Apparatus for Generating Traffic Data and Method Thereof (트래픽 데이터 생성 장치 및 그 방법)

• Han, J., Kang, M., Kim, M., Park, E.

• Application No. : 10-2023-0180440

• Filing Date: 2023. 12. 13.

[ Software ]

Context and Uncertainty-Aware Mental Disorder Detection (맥락 및 불확실성 기반 정신건강 탐지 시스템)

• Kang, M., Han, J.

• Registration No.: C-2024-050320

• Registration Date: 2024. 12. 05. 

Software for Generating Network Traffic (네트워크 트래픽 생성을 위한 소프트웨어)

• Kang, M., Han, J., Kim, M., Park, E.

• Registration No.: C-2023-037947

• Registration Date: 2022. 02. 08.

Honors & Awards

[Jun 2024] ACM MobiSys 2024 Student Travel Award ($1000) 

• The 22nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

Professional Service

[May 2025] Program Committee Member, 2025 Bias-A-Thon: Bias Discovery Challenge, Dacon

• Supported problem formulation and reviewed submitted solutions for bias detection models