Research interests

• Software engineering (software cost estimation, software measurement & analysis, software process, and software modularization)

• Data mining, Big data analysis, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial intelligence

Education

• 2008.02 ~ 2012.08 : KAIST (Ph.D.) (Advisor: Prof. Doo-Hwan Bae)

• 2006.03 ~ 2008.01 : KAIST (M.S.) (Advisor: Prof. Doo-Hwan Bae)

• 2002.03 ~ 2006.02 : Soongsil University (B.S.)

Experience

• 2022.09 ~ present : Associate professor, Department of computer engineering, Yeungnam university

• 2016.09 ~ 2022.08 : Assistant professor, Department of computer engineering, Yeungnam university

• 2014.01 ~ 2016.08 : Senior researcher, Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL)

• 2012.09 ~ 2013.12 : Senior researcher, Information & Electronics Research Institute, KAIST

Honors and awards

• Best paper award (Silver Prize),  ACK2025(Annual Conference of KIPS 2025), Korea Information Processing Society, 2025.11.

• Best paper award (Bronze Prize),  ACK2024(Annual Conference of KIPS 2024), Korea Information Processing Society, 2024.11.

• Undang  academic paper award (grand prize), Undang academic awards, Korea Information Processing Society, 2022.12.

• Sejong  Books Academic Section award, Software and AI with Python, 2022.09.

• Best paper award (Gold Prize),  ASK2022(Annual Symposium of KIPS 2024), Korea Information Processing Society, 2022.05.

• Best paper award,  The 17th International Conference on Multimedia Information Technology and Applications (MITA 2021), 2021.07.

• Best paper award,  The Kips Spring Conference, Korea Information Processing Society, 2021.05.

• Best paper award,  AI R&D conference hosted by Korea Maritime & Ocean University, 2021.02.

• Outstanding service award, CSA2019 Publicity Chair, 2019.12.

• Achievement award, Associate Editor of Journal of Information Processing Systems, 2019.12.

• Outstanding service award, HCIS2019 Workshop Chair, 2019.08.

• Best paper award, The 15th International Conference on Multimedia Information Technology and Applications (MITA 2019), 2019.06.

• Outstanding paper, Journal of Information Processing Systems, Korea Information Processing Society, 2019.04.

• Best paper award, KCSE 2014, KIISE, 2014.

• Best paper award, KCSE 2013, KIISE, 2013.

• Best paper award, KCSE 2011, KIISE, 2011.

• Best paper award, KCSE 2008 (Korea Conference on Software Engineering 2008), KIISE (The Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers), 2008.

Professional services

• International Journal Editorial Board/Associate Editor

  • Associate editor, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), Apr 2020 - present.

  • Guest editor, Healthcare Technology Letters, Dec 2024 - present.

  • Guest editor, Electronics, June 2021 - present.

  • Topics Board member, Electronics, Dec 2020 - present.

  • Reviewer Board member, Electronics, Aug 2020 - present.

  • Reviewer Board member, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), Apr 2020 - present.

  • Associate editor, Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Sep 2018 - Dec 2023.

  • Guest editor, Processes, July 2021 - May 2023.

  • Associate editor, The 3rd JIPS Survey Papers Awards, Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Nov 2019 - Apr 2020.

  • Guest editor, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Oct 2018 - Feb 2020.

• International Conference Organizer/Program Committees

  • Program Committee, The 17th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI), 2023, 2024, 2025.

  • Publicity Chairs, The international Conference n Big data, IoT, and Cloud Computing (BIC), 2024, 2025.

  • Program Vice-Chairs, The International Conference on Big data, IoT, and Cloud computing (BIC), Aug 2020.

  • Publicity chair, World Congress on Information Technology Applications and Services 2025 (WITC), 2019, 2024, 2025

  • Program Committee, The 16th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA), 2023, 2024, 2025.

  • Publicity chair, The 11th International Conference on Computer Science and Its Application (CSA), 2019.

  • Program Committee, The 13th Conference on Information Technology and its Applications (CITA), 2024.

  • Program Committee, The 17th KIPS International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE), 2023.

  • Program Committee, The 15th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS), 2023.

  • Program Chair, The 2020 KIPS-CSWRG International Workshop on Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), 2019, 2020.

  • Program Committee, The 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS), 2020.

  • Technical Program Committee, The 15th International Conference on Multimedia Information Technology and Applications (MITA), 2019.

  • Exhibition Chair, The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2020.

  • Program Committee, The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Software Engineering in Practice, 2020.

  • Program Committee, The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Demonstrations track, 2020.

  • Proceedings Co-Chair, 25th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2018.

• International Standard Committees

  • Technical Committee member, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC40 (IT Service Management and IT Governance), Sep 2014 - present.

• Domestic Journal Editorial Board/Associate Editor

  • Member of board of directors, Software engineering society in Korea, Jun 2018 - present.

  • Board member, Korea Information Processing Society, Jan 2020 - present.

  • Editor, The KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering (KTSDE), Aug 2020 - Dec 2021.

• Domestic Conference Organizer/Program Committees

  • Program Committee, The 2021 KIPS Spring conference, Apr 2021 - May 2021.

  • General Co-Chair, The 2020 JIPS/KIPS-CSWRG Workshop, Feb 6 2020 - Feb 7 2020.

• Korean Government Committees

  • Evaluation Committee, Integrated R&D Information System (IRIS), Nov 2024 - present.

  • Committee member, Korea Conference on Software Engineering (KCSE), Nov 2016 - present.

  • Committee member, Small and Medium Business Administration (SMBA), Nov 2016 - present.

  • Committee member, The 5th NTIS professional monitoring association, Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP), May 2016 - Nov 2016.

  • Committee member, Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT), Dec 2015 - present.

  • Committee member, Seoul Business Agency (SBA), Aug 2015 - present.

  • Committee member, National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), Feb 2015 - present.

  • Committee member, Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP), Feb 2015 - present.

• Professional Associations

  • Member of ACM.

  • Member of IEEE.

  • Board Member of KIISE (Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers) Software Engineering Society.