David (Bong Jun) Choi, Ph.D., SMIEEE

Associate Professor, Chair

School of Computer Science and Engineering
College of Information Technology, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

E-mail: davidchoi AT soongsil DOT ac DOT kr
Phone: +82-2-820-0923 / Office: 21523 (정보과학관 523) / Lab: 21408 (정보과학관 408)
Office Hour: Mon, Tues 13:00 ~ 15:00

News:

[Guest Editor] Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Cyber-Physical Security," IET Cyber-physical Systems: Theory & Application (Submission Deadline: June. 14, 2024)

[Executive Board Member] I am newly appointed as an executive director of Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS), 2024~

[Award] Special Session Paper Award: "Exploring Multimodal Features to Understand Cultural Context for Spontaneous Humor Prediction," International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), Daegu, Korea, Nov. 2023.

[Journal] "Deep Reinforcement Learning based Rate Enhancement Scheme for RIS Assisted Mobile Users Underlaying UAV," Alexandria Engineering Journal, Mar. 2024. (IF: 6.8)
[Journal] "Federated Reinforcement Learning based Task Offloading Approach for MEC-Assisted WBAN-Enabled IoMT," Alexandria Engineering Journal, Jan. 2024. (IF: 6.8)
[Journal] "Expand and Shrink: Federated Learning with Unlabeled Data Using Clustering," Sensors, Nov. 2023. (IF: 3.847)
[Journal] "Comparative Analysis of Data-Driven Algorithms for Building Energy Planning via Federated Learning," Energies, Sept. 2023. (IF: 3.2)
[Journal] "Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Group Signature for Federated Learning," Future Generation Computer Systems, Oct. 2023. (IF: 7.5)

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[Broadcast] "Efficient Use of Electrical Energy for Future Convergence Society (미래융합 사회에 필요한 전기 에너지의 생산과 활용)", YTN Science, Science Forum, 2020.12.26.

Recruitment:

Looking for talented and highly motivated graduate students and post-doctoral research fellows in the areas of federated learning, distributed AI, future energy grid, and security. Multiple positions in MSc and Ph.D. are available:
- Two MSc positions in the area of smart energy, security, distributed AI, and industrial IoT.
- One Ph.D. position in the areas of federated learning
* If you are interested, please send me your CV and a research statement by email.

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Awards and Fellowships:

Soongsil Fellowship Professor (SFP) for Research Achievement (연구업적 숭실펠로우십교수), Soongsil University, 2020, 2021, 2022.
Special Session Paper Award, International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), 2023.
Best Paper Award Runner-up, International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), 2022.
Third Place (MuSe-Stress), International Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Workshop and Challenge (MuSe), 2022.
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), 2021.
Best Session Paper Award, International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), 2021.
IEEE ComSoc Young Professional Best Paper Award, IEEE ICC, 2017.
Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science, SUNY Korea, 2014.
Best Paper Award Finalist, INFOCOM, 2012.