Professor

Brief Biography

Jooyoung Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Convergence Software at Myongji University, South Korea. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University, South Korea. After graduation, he worked as a Manager in the Data Science Team, G.AI Group at SK Inc C&C. Additionally, he co-founded PS Analytics, an e-sport data analysis company. His research interests encompass the application and development of state-of-the-art pattern recognition and machine learning methods across multidisciplinary fields.

Educations

• B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea

  • Thesis Title: "Line Features Projection for Face Photo-Sketch and Finger-Knuckle-Print Recognition"

  • Advisor: Kar-Ann Toh

Professional Experiences

• Assistant Professor, Department of Convergence Software, Myongji University (Present)

• Manager, Data Science Team, SK Inc C&C

Selected Publications

• Kim, J., Lee, W., & Park, J. (2025). Structured Summarization of League of Legends Match Data Optimized for Large Language Model Input. Applied Sciences.

• Kim J., Lin Z., Kim D., & Toh K. A. (2023). Face Photo-sketch Recognition based on Multi-Directional Line Features Projection. Neural Computing and Applications.

• Kim J., Lee H., Im S., Lee S. A., Kim D., & Toh K. A. (2021). Machine learning-based leaky momentum prediction of plasmonic random nanosubstrate. Optics Express.

• Jung J., Kim J., & Toh K. A. (2019). Transfer learning of Wi-Fi handwritten signature signals for identity verification based on the kernel and the range space projection. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.

• Kim J., Oh K., Oh B. S., Lin Z., & Toh K. A. (2019). A line feature extraction method for finger-knuckle-print verification. Cognitive Computation.

Books

• Kim J. (2025). 아는 만큼 보이는 생성형 AI. 길벗, Seoul, Korea. ISBN: 979‑11‑407‑1507‑7.

Honors & Awards

• 1st prize winner, LCL Open Learning Lounge, with the project entitled 'Research on Data-flywheel-centered MLOps Pipeline for operating generative AI-based services', SK Inc C&C (2023)

• Quantum Excellence, Qiskit Global Summer School 2023, IBM (2023)

• 1st Prize Winner, AI Competition on Classification of Consultation Types in the Customer Center, mySUNI (2023)

• 4th Prize Winner, Dacon AI Competition on Machine Fault Diagnosis, Dacon Inc. (2023)

• Best Paper Award, International Conference on Electronics Information and Communication, IEEE (2023)

• Best Paper Award, 3rd International Conference on Advances in Image Processing, ACM (2019)