Kyung-Ah Sohn
Kyung-Ah Sohn (손경아), Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Software and Computer Engineering, Ajou University, Korea (아주대학교 소프트웨어학과)
Head, Department of Artificial Intelligence (대학원 인공지능학과 학과장)
Email: kasohn a-t gmail | ajou.ac.kr
* We are looking for motivated students (graduate, or undergraduate) to join our group! Email me your cv if interested. (Currently, I'm accepting new graduate students only through the Department of AI)
Research Interest
Machine Learning / Deep Learning: multi-view learning, representation learning, computer vision, natural language processing
Biomedical Informatics: multi-omics data integration, knowledge embedding, network-based analysis, translational bioinformatics
Education
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2011
Advised by Professor Eric P. Xing
Thesis title: Learning ancestral genetic processes using non-parametric Bayesian models
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
M.S. in Computer Science, February 2003
Advised by Professor Myung-Soo Kim
Thesis title: Computing distances between surfaces using line geometry
B.S. in Mathematics, February 2000
Working Experiences
Professor, March 2013 – present
Department of Software and Computer Engineering, Ajou University, South Korea
Visiting Scholar, March 2019 – February 2020
Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Research Assistant Professor, April 2012 – February 2013
College of Medicine / Systems Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Seoul National University, South Korea
Post-Doctoral Fellow, January 2012 – February 2012
Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Full-time researcher, February 2003 - May 2005
Human-Computer-Interaction/Computing lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea