Curriculum Vitae
Affiliation History
Senior Researcher, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea (ETRI), 2016 ~ present
TAOS II Postdoc, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), 2015 ~ 2016
Gaia CU8 Validation Manager, Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC), 2014 ~ 2015
Gaia Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Germany, 2012 ~ 2015
Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), USA, 2008 ~ 2012
Researcher, Time Series Center, Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at SEAS, Harvard, USA, 2010 ~ 2012
Researcher, Time Series Center, Initiative Innovative Computing (IIC) at Harvard, USA, 2008 ~ 2010
Visiting Student, Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University (NCU), Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2005
Programmer, Web Developer, Database Manager, Application Developer at a few IT companies during a period of military service
Education History
Ph.D. Astronomy, Yonsei University, South Korea
M.S. Astronomy, Yonsei University, South Korea
B.S. Double Major in Astronomy and Physics, Yonsei University, South Korea
Teaching Experiences
Teaching Assistant, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (MVComp2), University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2015
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Scientific Computing: Stochastic Optimization Methods (Applied Mathematics 205b), SEAS, Harvard University, USA, 2011
Supervisory Experiences
Co-supervisor, Bachelor Project, M. Beuckelmann, On the Performance of Photometric Variability Classifiers, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2015
Colloquiums and Special Lectures
Special Lecture, Statistical Data Analysis and Machine Learning, ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea, March-May, 2017
ECE Colloquium, Machine Learning Application in Astronomy, UNIST, Ulsan, South Korea, March 22nd, 2017
Special Lecture, Machine Learning for Astronomers with Tutorials, ASIAA, Taipei, Taiwan, March-April, 2016
Special Lecture, Statistical Data Analysis for Astronomers with Tutorials: An Introduction of Bayesian Data Analysis and Machine Learning, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea 16-17th November, 2015
Special Lecture, Machine Learning for Astronomy with Tutorials, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, South Korea, 12-13th November, 2015
Colloquium, Gaia Satellite Mission, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, South Korea, 11th November, 2015
Colloquium, Gaia Satellite Mission, Chungnam National University, South Korea, 12th November, 2015
Colloquium, Gaia Satellite Mission, Seoul National University, South Korea, 19th November, 2015
Colloquium, Gaia and Big Data, Yonsei University, South Korea, 8th January, 2015
Scholarship and Grants
Tufts University, USA, III-CXT-Medium: Interdisciplinary Machine Learning Research and Education, 2010~2012
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), USA, Visiting Researcher Fund, 2009~2010
BK21 Global Internship, Korea Research Foundation, 2008
Scholarship student, Rotary International District 3640, Korea
Referee/Reviewer
Awards
Award for Distinctive Paper of the Year, Graduate School, Yonsei University, 2012
Others
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018 AutoML Workshop Program Committee
Committee member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Graduate Student Seminar, 2011 ~ 2012
Programmer at IT companies during a period of military service
Developed and maintained several websites (e.g. Samsung, SKT, and etc.)
Developed several standard alone applications using JAVA and Visual Basic
8th president of a social science study group "Baroter", Yonsei Univ.
Founder of a computer study group "Athena", Yonsei Univ.