HOMIN PARK
Lecturer @ SUSS, Singapore
BIO
Homin Park is currently a Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) in Singapore. He received a Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea in 2016, and a B.S. degree in Computing and Software Systems from the University of Washington, USA in 2010. His current research interests are 1) human activity and behavior inferencing and tracking systems, 2) spatiotemporal data analysis for safe and sustainable cities, and 3) cyber-physical systems exploiting various artificial intelligence and data analytic techniques.
Publications
International Journal Papers Indexed by SCI/SCIE:
Yongmin Kim, Alfrendo Satyanaga, Harianto Rahardjo, Homin Park, and Aaron Wai Lun Sham, "Estimation of effective cohesion using artificial neural networks based on index soil properties: A Singapore case," Engineering Geology, 2021. IF 6.755 (SCI) --- Q1
DaeHan Ahn, Homin Park, Kyoosik Shin, and Taejoon Park, "Accurate Driver Detection Exploiting Invariant Characteristics of Smartphone Sensors," Sensors, 2019. IF 2.475 (SCIE)
Homin Park, DaeHan Ahn, Taejoon Park, and Kang G. Shin, “Automatic Identification of Driver’s Smartphone Exploiting Common Vehicle-riding Actions,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2018. IF 4.098 (SCI), 17 (2), 265-278, 1558-0660, 20170707 --- Top 10%, Rank 14th
DaeHan Ahn, Homin Park, Seokhyun Hwang, Taejoon Park " Reliable Identification of Vehicle-Boarding Actions Based on Fuzzy Inference System," Sensors, 2017. IF 2.475 (SCIE), 17(2), 333, 1424-8220, 20170209
Homin Park, Seokhyun Hwang, Myounggyu Won, and Taejoon Park, “Activity-aware Sensor Cycling for Human Activity Monitoring in Smart Homes,” IEEE Communications Letters, 2016. IF 1.988 (SCI), 21 (4), 757-760, 1558-2558, 20161020
Jong-Wan Yoon, Homin Park, Nam Sung Kim, and Taejoon Park, “Cost-effective, asynchronous inter-sensor distance estimation using trigonometry,” IET Electronics Letters, 2016. IF 1.155 (SCI), 52 (12), 1080-1082, 1350-911X, 20160511
Homin Park, Jongjun Park, Hyunhak Kim, Jongarm Jun, Sang Hyuk Son, Taejoon Park, and JeongGil Ko, "ReLiSCE: Utilizing Resource-limited Sensors for Office Activity Context Extraction," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2014. IF 1.699 (SCI), 45 (8), 1151-1164, 2168-2232, 20141121
Homin Park, Can Basaran, Taejoon Park, and Sang Hyuk Son, "Energy-Efficient Privacy Protection for Smart Home Environments Using Behavioral Semantics," Sensors, 2014. IF 2.245 (SCIE), 14 (9), 16235-16257, 1424-8220, 20140902 --- Top 20%, Rank 10th
International Journal Papers Indexed by non-SCI/SCIE:
Homin Park, Taejoon Park, and Sang Hyuk Son. "A Comparative Study of Privacy Protection Methods for Smart Home Environments," International Journal of Smart Home, 2013. SCOPUS. I.F. 0.900
International Conference/Symposium proceedings:
Dylan Zhang, Homin Park*, and Shili Xiang, "Linking Mobility Traces of the Same User Across Different Datasets," IEEE SOLI 2023, Dec. 2023
Yunlong Wang, Jiaying Liu, Homin Park, Jordan Schultz-McArdle, Stephanie Rosenthal, Judy Kay, and Brian Y Lim, "SalienTrack: providing salient information for semi-automated self-tracking feedback with model explanations," arXiv, Feb. 2022
Homin Park, Homanga Bharadhwaj, and Brian Y. Lim, "Hierarchical Multi-Task Learning for Healthy Drink Classification," in Proceedings of the IEEE IJCNN 2019, Jul. 2019.
Homanga Bharadhwaj, Homin Park, and Brian Y. Lim, "RecGAN: Recurrent Generative Adversarial Networks for Recommendation Systems", in Proceedings of the ACM RecSys 2018, Oct. 2018.
Homin Park, Sanghoon Jeon, Taejoon Park, B. Brian Park, Junhong Jeon, Yongsoon Eun, and Sang Hyuk Son, “Assessment of Route Guidance System Utilizing Turning Movement Specific Link Travel Times,” in Proceedings of the ITS World Congress 2018, Sep. 2018.
Homin Park, Zhenkai Wang, Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, and Brian Y. Lim, "Biases in Food Photo Taking Behavior," Workshop at the ACM CHI 2018, Apr. 2018.
Seokhyun Hwang, Daehan Ahn, Homin Park and Taejoon Park, “Maximizing Accuracy of Fall Detection and Alert Systems Based on 3D Convolutional Neural Network,” Poster and Demo Session at ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2017, Apr. 2017.
Hong Jae Lee, Homin Park, and Taejoon Park, "Asynchronous Distance Measurement for Smartphone-Based Localization Exploiting Chirp Signals," in Proceedings of the ACM MobiQuitous 2015, Jul. 2015.
Homin Park, Daehan Ahn, Myounggyu Won, Sang H. Son, and Taejoon Park, "Are You Driving? Non-intrusive Driver Detection using Built-in Smartphone Sensors," Poster and Demo Session at the ACM MobiCom 2014, Sep. 2014.
Can Basaran, Homin Park, Taejoon Park, and Sang H. Son, "A Service Oriented Smart Home Architecture for Better Quality of Service Management," Work in Progress Session at the IEEE RTAS 2013, Apr. 2013.
Can Basaran, Homin Park, Taejoon Park, and Sang H. Son, "Towards Intelligent Services in Smart Home Environments," Workshop at the SEUS 2013, Jun. 2013.
Homin Park, Can Basaran, Taejoon Park, and Sang Hyuk Son, "Survey on Privacy Protection through Activity Cloak for Smart Home Environments," Poster Session at the ISET 2013, 2013.
Homin Park, Taejoon Park, Sam Chung, "A Study on Privacy and Energy-Efficiency Tradeoff in Smart Home Environments," in Proceedings of the SOSP 2012, Jul. 2012.
Homin Park and Taejoon Park, "Survey on Privacy Preservation Methods for Smart Home Environments," Poster Session at the ISET 2012, 2012.
Korean Conference/Symposium proceedings:
Chorok Gwak, Minsu Jo, Seongkyung Kwon, Homin Park, Sang H. Son, "Anomaly Detection based on Recursive Least-Square Filter for Robust Intelligent Transportation Systems," in Proceedings of the KICS 2015 Summer Conferences, 2015.
Invention Disclosures (Published or Filed):
Homin Park, Daehan Ahn, Myounggyu Won, Taejoon Park, and Sang H. Son, “Apparatus and Method for Detecting a Driver (운전자 판단 장치 및 방법),” KP (대한민국특허청) 10-2014-0084547, Jul. 2014
Byungkyu "Brian" Park, Homin Park, and Taejoon Park, "Apparatus and Method for Route Guidance Using Directional Turning Movement of Vehicle (차량의 방향 전환을 이용한 경로 안내 장치 및 방법)," KP (대한민국특허청) 10-2013-0087592, Jul. 2013
Education
Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering (March 2011 ~ August 2016)
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Republic of Korea
Dissertation: Human Activity Inference Systems for Internet of Things Applications
Advisor: Professor Sang Hyuk Son
B.S. in Computing and Software Systems (September 2006 ~ June 2010)
University of Washington, Tacoma, USA
Research Title: An Integrated Modernization Approach for Software Reengineering: IMA4SR
Advisor: Professor Sam Chung
Experiences
Research Experience:
Lecturer at Singapore University of Social Sciences (April 2023 ~ current)
Research Scientist at Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (September 2019 ~ Mar2023)
Research Fellow at National University of Singapore under Professor Brian Y. Lim (July 2017 ~ July 2019)
Post-Doc Research Fellow at Hanyang University under Professor Taejoon Park (September 2016 ~ June 2017)
Secondment at Hanyang University under Professor Taejoon Park (June 2015 ~ August 2016)
Research Intern at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute under Professor Jeonggil Ko (September 2013 ~ November 2013)
Teaching & Invited Talk:
AI technology and its application to geotechnical engineering @ NTU (2019)
Introduction to Machine Learning (Advanced Building Materials Seminar), Hanyang University (March 2017 ~ June 2017)
The main goal of this course was to equip students with the tools to tackle various Artificial Intelligence (AI) problems by learning the fundamental principles and by practicing implementing various AI systems using Python and SciKit. Course topics included Regressions, Decision Tree, Clustering, Bayesian Network, Support Vector Machine, and more.
Future of Artificial Intelligence @ KINAC (2017)
Introduction to Machine Learning @ Hankyung National University (2017)
Professional Services:
Technical Program Committee, Co-Chair, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 2025
Programm Committee Member & Session Chair, The 9th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology (2023)
Technical Programm Chair, The 17th IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (2023)
Peer Reviewer, W14: Quantification of Virtual Learning Environments in ICCE (2023)
Technical paper reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2017)
Program committee, US-Korea Conference Young Generation & Professional Forum (2010)
Non-academic Activities and Services:
Acting President of NASUM Tennis Club, Singapore (September 2023 ~ December 2023)
Secretary of NASUM Tennis Club, Singapore (January 2023 ~ August 2023)
President of NASUM Tennis Club, Singapore (January 2022 ~ December 2022)
Secretary of NASUM Tennis Club, Singapore (January 2021 ~ December 2021)
President of Student Self-government Committee at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (March 2012 ~ March 2013)
President of Korean American International Student Team at University of Washington, Tacoma (September 2008 ~ June 2009)
Secretary of Korean American International Student Team at University of Washington, Tacoma (September 2006 ~ June 2008)
Awards and Honors
ISET Outstanding Paper Award, Korea, 2013
DGIST Award of the Year (Best Student Award), Korea, 2012
SOSP Outstanding Paper Award, Korea, 2012
Kent Mercer Scholarship, University of Washington, USA, 2006 - 2010