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

    • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018 AutoML Workshop Reviewer

    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)

    • Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

    • Publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP)

    • New Astronomy

  • 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.