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2025. 9) I chair the session “Agentic Visualization and Intelligent Systems” at IEEE VIS 2025
2025. 8) Congratulations! A paper on vision-language model development is accepted for publication in Main Conference of EMNLP 25 (co-first author: Duc & Thu Nguyen, 2-year M.S Students).
2025. 8) I join the organizing committee of IEEE VIS 26 as a Publication Chair.
2025. 8) Congratulations! Two papers are accepted for publication at CIKM 25
Paper Topics:
Deep learning technique development for stock investment (1st author: Ju Won Kim, MS-PhD 2 year),
LLM development for Spatio-temporal forecasting (1st author: Hyotaek Jeon, MS-PhD 2 year)
2025. 8) I serve on Technical Program Committees of AAAI 26
2025. 6) I serve on General Chair of IEEE PacificVis 27
2025. 6) I serve on paper co-chair of Technical Program Committees of IEEE PacificVis 26 VisNotes (Short Paper) Track
2025. 5) I serve on Technical Program Committees of Ubicomp 25 Poster Track
2025. 5) I serve on Technical Program Committees of IEEE VIS 25 Short Paper Track
2025.4) I serve on Program Committee of CIKM 25 (Conference on Information and Knowledge Management)
2025. 2) I join CSE/GSAI at POSTECH
2025.1) I serve on Program Committee of IEEE PacificVis 25 (Short Paper Track [VisNote])
2025.1) I am invited to Dagstuhl Seminar 25232 (Navigating the Maze of Guidelines to Unify Visualization Design Recommendations), which will be held in June (https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/25232)
Sungahn Ko (고성안)
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) & Graduate School of AI (GSAI)
POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Office: Science Bldg #4, Room 121 제4공학관 121호
Work
Associate Professor, POSTECH, Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) & Graduate of School of AI (GSAI), 2025~
Visiting Professor, UC Davis, CA, USA (2022.3~2023.2), hosted by Prof. Kwan-Liu Ma
Associate Professor, UNIST, Computer Science and Engineering, 2020~2025
Assistant Professor, UNIST, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2016~2020
Post-doc researcher, Purdue VACCINE (http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/), 2015
Education
Ph.D., Purdue Univ., 2014 (Advisor: Dr. David Ebert)
M.S., KAIST, 2008 (Advisor: Dr. Kyu Ho Park)
B.E., Korea Univ., 2006
Current Research Interests:
Deep Learning/Large Lanugage Models/Data Science
AI+Visual Analytics/Visualization
AI+Visualization System Design
AI+Data-driven Storytelling
AI+Social Data Mining
Personalized Gen AI
AI+HCI (Computational UI/UX/Design, Social/Mobile Computing, Computational Social Science)
Lab.: 4공학관 107-1
Postdoc
Dr. Hyunwook Lee, Publications: EMNLP 25, CIKM 25*2, IEEE VIS 24, ICLR 24 (1st), IEEE VIS 22 (1st), ICLR 22 (1st), CIKM 22, ICDE 21 (1st, short), WWW 21
Graduate Students:
MS-PhD Program
김주희 Joohee Kim (MS-PhD program Since 2021, lab internship: 2020), Publications: IEEE VIS 24 (1st), IEEE TVCG 23, TVCG 22, CIKM 22, WWW 21
김성욱 Seongouk Kim (MS-PhD program Since 2023, lab internship: 2021~2022), Publications: CIKM 22
전효택 Hyotaek Jeon (MS-PhD program Since 2024), lab internship: 2023, Publications: EMNLP, ACM CIKM 25 (1st), CIKM 25
김주원 Juwon Kim (MS-PhD program Since 2024), lab internship: 2023~2024, Publications: ACM CIKM 25 (1st), CIKM 25
조성범 Sungbeom Cho (MS-Phd Since 2025), lab internship: 2024
이창희 Changhee Lee (MS-Phd Since 2025), lab internship: 2024
M.S. Program
이민식 Minsik Lee (MS Program Since 2024, lab internship: 2023, LG전자 산학 장학생)
Duc Minh Nguyen (MS Program Since 2024, lab internship: 2023~2024), Publications: EMNLP (1st), IEEE VIS 24
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Current Intern Members:
정다은 (CSE), 전재형 (CSE)
Graduate Alumni
2024 이현욱 (PhD, 전문연 Postdoc at HAIV), Publications: ICLR 24 (1st), IEEE VIS 24, IEEE VIS 22 (1st), ICLR 22 (1st), CIKM 22, ICDE 21 (1st, short), WWW 21
2023 임홍규 (MS, first job at Hyundai Motors R&D Center)
2022 최승형 (MS, first job at Hyundai Mobis), 주혜신 (MS, first job at Naver ZEPETO)
2021 한윤하 (MS, first job at NC Soft), 김휘연 (MS, first job at 경남은행)
2020 이충기 (MS, now PhD program at Harvard CS), 김기환 (MS, first job at 티맥스연구소, 석사병특), 한동윤 (MS, now PhD program at USU), Gorahk Parsad (MS)
2019 오주영 (MS, first job at Hyundai Motors R&D Center)
2018 Kuatbek Mukabak (MS, first job at Sapa Software)
Past Undergraduate Interns
2023~2024 Duc Minh Nguyen(Major: CSE, 2024 HAIV MS 진학)
2023~2024 김주원 (Major: CSE, 2024 HAIV MS-PhD 진학)
2023 전효택 (Major: EE, 2024 HAIV MS-PhD 진학)
2021~2022 김성욱 (Major: CSE, 2023 HAIV MS 진학, 2024 MS-PhD 전환)
2020 김주희 (Major: CSE, 2021 HAIV MS-PhD 진학)
2019 이현욱 (Major: ECE, 2020 HAIV MS-PhD 진학)
2018 김휘연 (Major: Design, 2019 HAIV MS 진학)
2017 김기환 (Major: ECE, 2018 HAIV MS 진학)
2016 이충기 (Major: ECE, 2018 HAIV MS 진학), 오주영 (Major: ECE, 2017 HAIV MS 진학)
*Conference Organizing Committee:
IEEE Pacific Visualization (General Chair 2027, Sponsorship Chair 2017)
IEEE VIS (Publication Chair, 2026)
*Technical Program Committee:
AAAI (2026)
Ubicomp (2025, Poster)
CIKM (2025)
IJCAI (2024)
IEEE VIS (2022-2024, Session Chair in 2024), VIS Short (2022, 2023, 2025)
IEEE Pacific Visualization (2020-2025, TVCG&Conference Track), Visualization Notes (Short Paper) Co-chair (2023, 2026), Visualization Notes Committee (2018-2024),
CHI Workshop on Computational UI Designs (2022-2024)
Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (2023)
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2021, 2024
Korea Computer Graphics Society, Executive Committee (2021-Present), Program Committee (2016--Present), 한국컴퓨터그래픽스 학회 이사
AI Society of Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers, Executive Committee (2024-Present), 정보과학회 인공지능 소사이어티 이사
*Paper Reviewer:
ICLR (2025, 2026)
KDD (2025, recognized as Outstanding Reviewer, Research Track)
SIGGRAPH ASIA (2025),
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019, 2021-2025
IEEE VIS 2016-2024, IEEE VIS Short 2020-2023
IEEE Pacific Visualization 2017-2025
IEEE VR 2024, ISMAR 2024, 2025
IJCAI 2024 Human-Centered AI Track
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2021, 2023-2025
EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 2017, 2020-2022
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 2021, 2022
Journal of Information Visualization (JVIS), 2022, 2024
Computers and Graphics, 2024
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp/IWMUT), 2020~2023
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2021
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2020, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), 2016, 2019, 2020
IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2021
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2020--2023
ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), 2021
ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2018
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 2017
Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), 2021-2022
*Courses
Engineering Programming (2017 Spr)
Object-oriented programming (2016 Spr, 2017 Fall, 2018 Fall, 2019 Spr)
Information Visualization (2016 Fall, 2019 Fall, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 Spr), Human-Computer Interaction (2018 Spr, 2021 Spr)
Mobile Computing (2020 Fall)
Visual Analytics (2016 Fall, 2017 Fall), Advanced Human-Computer Interaction (2018 Spr, 2020 Spr), Advanced Information Visualization (2019 Spr, 2021, 2023, 2024 Fall)
Intelligent User Interface (2025 Fall)
*Community Service
Ulsan City Advisory Council Member 울산광역시 정책 자문 위원회 자문 위원 (2023~2026)
Ulsan Smart City Project Committee Member 울산시 스마트 도시 사업 협의회 자문 위원 (2021~2022)
*Links
CSE: https://cse.postech.ac.kr/
Address: Science Bldg #4, Rm#121, 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, Korea, ZIP 37673
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