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 ~ 2008.02 : 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 (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

• Guest editor, Healthcare Technology Letters, 2024.12.~ present.

• Evaluation Committee, Integrated R&D Information System (IRIS), 2024.11.~ present.

• Program Committee, The 17th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2025), 2024.11.~2025.11.

• Program Committee, The 16th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA2024), 2024.10.~2024.12.

• Publicity Chairs, The international Conference n Big data, IoT, and Cloud Computing (BIC 2024), 2024.05.~2024.08.

• Program Committee, The 16th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2024), 2024.01.~2024.09.

• Program Committee, The 13th Conference on Information Technology and its Applications (CITA 2024), 2024.01.~2024.07.

• Publicity chair, World Congress on Information Technology Applications and Services 2024 (WITC 2024), 2024.01. ~ 2024.02.

• Program Committee,  The 17th KIPS International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE2023), 2023.11.~2023.12.

• Program Committee, The 15th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA2023), 2023.10.~2023.12.

• Program Committee, The 15th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2023), 2023.03.~2023.09.

• Program Committee, The 15th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2023), 2023.03.~2023.07.

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

• Guest editor, Electronics, June 2021 ~ present.

• Program Committee, The 2021 KIPS Spring conference, Apr 01. 2021 ~ May 15. 2021.

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

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

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

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

• Program Vice-Chairs, The International Conference on Big data, IoT, and Cloud computing (BIC 2020), 2020.08.17. ~ 2020.08.19.

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

• Program Chair, The 2020 KIPS-CSWRG International Workshop on Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS 2020 Winter), 2020.02.24. ~ 2020.02.26.

• General Co-Chair, The 2020 JIPS/KIPS-CSWRG Workshop, 2020.02.06. ~ 2020.02.07.

• Board member, Korea Information Processing Society, 2020.01. ~ present.

• Publicity chair, The 11th International Conference on Computer Science and Its Application (CSA 2019), 2019.12.18. ~ 2019.12.20.

• Program Committee, The 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2020), 2019.12.10.~2020.12.14.

• Associate editor, The 3rd JIPS Survey Papers Awards, Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), 2019.11. ~ 2020.04.

• Program Chair, The 2019 KIPS-CSWRG International Workshop on Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS 2019), 2019.08.19. ~ 2019.08.21.

• Technical Program Committee, The 15th International Conference on Multimedia Information Technology and Applications (MITA 2019), 2019.06.27. ~ 2019.07.01.

• Exhibition Chair, The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), 2019.07.06. ~ 2020.07.11.

• Program Committee, The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020) Software Engineering in Practice, 2019.06.19. ~ 2020.07.11.

• Program Committee, The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020) Demonstrations track, 2019.03.18. ~ 2020.07.11.

• Publicity chair, The 2019 World Congress on Information Technology Applications and Services (WITC 2019), 2019.02.11. ~ 2019.02.13.

• Guest editor, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2018.10. ~ present.

• Associate editor, Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), 2018.09. ~ 2023.12.

• Member of board of directors, Software engineering society in Korea, 2018.06. ~ present.

• Proceedings Co-Chair, 25th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2018), 2017.09. ~ 2018.12.

• Committee member, Korea Conference on Software Engineering (KCSE), 2016.11. ~ present.

• Committee member, Small and Medium Business Administration (SMBA), 2016.11. ~ present.

• Committee member, The 5th NTIS professional monitoring association, Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP), 2016.05. ~ 2016.11.

• Committee member, Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT), 2015.12. ~ present.

• Committee member, Seoul Business Agency (SBA), 2015.08. ~ present.

• Committee member, National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), 2015.02. ~ present.

• Committee member, Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP), 2015.02. ~ present.

• Technical Committee member, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC40 (IT Service Management and IT Governance), 2014.09. ~ present.