Assistant Professor @ Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS)
Division of Computer Engineering
Research Interests
🧬 Bioinformatics | Human Microbiome | Metagenomics
💻 Artificial Intelligence | Deep Learning | Natural Language Processing
Contact
📧 hjgwak [at] hufs [dot] ac [dot] kr
💼 #533, Engineering Building,
81, Oedae-ro, Mohyeon-eup, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Affiliations
Mar 2026 - Present
Assistant Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Republic of Korea
Division of Computer Engineering
Feb 2025 - Feb 2026
Visiting Fellow, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
BK Post-Doc., Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Department of Computer Science
Education
Mar 2017 - Feb 2024
M.S./Ph.D., Computer Science
Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
* Advisor: Mina Rho, Ph. D.
* Thesis: "Representation Learning Applied to Taxonomy and Function Classification in Computational Molecular Biology"
Mar 2013 - Feb 2017
B.S., Computer Science
Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Summa Cum Laude
Awards
Outstanding Dissertation Award
Department of Computer Science, Hanyang University, 2024
Teaching
2026
1st Semester
[Division of Computer Engineering]
Computer Programming
Cloud Computing
Capstone Design and Practice
2nd Semester
[Division of Computer Engineering]
Natural Language Processing
SW Research Project and Practice
[Ingenium College of Convergence Studies | ICT&AI]
Natural Language Processing