Seongsoon Kim, Ph.D.

I am a Senior Research Engineer at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), affiliated with the Division of Supercomputing, Center for Data-centric Problem Solving Research. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Korea University under the supervision of Prof. Jaewoo Kang. 

My research focuses on building data-driven intelligent systems that integrate multi-modal understanding, reinforcement learning, and representation learning. I develop adaptive learning frameworks that can operate in complex, dynamic environments, supporting scientific discovery and high-impact decision-making. By combining large-scale heterogeneous data with interaction-driven modeling approaches, I aim to design robust, scalable systems that tightly couple perception, reasoning, and control across real-world tasks.

■ Education

• • Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (3/13 - 8/17)

    • Ph.D. in Computer Science 

    • Thesis title : "Designing and Evaluating Machine Reading Methods for Multi-domain Texts"

    • Advisor: Prof. Jaewoo Kang

  • Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (3/11 - 2/13)

    • M.S. in Computer Science

    • Thesis title : "Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis using Syntactic Features from User Generated Text"

    • Advisor: Prof. Jaewoo Kang

  • Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea (3/05 - 2/11)

    • B.E. in Computer Engineering (Dual Degree)

  • Stony Brook University, New York, United States (8/07 - 12/09)

    • B.S. in Computer Science

■ Work Experiences

• • Senior Research Engineer, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Daejeon, South Korea 12/20 - present  (full-time)

    • Intelligent data analysis, Digital transformation strategy, AI

  • Senior Researcher, NAVER Corp., Seongnam-si, South Korea       12/17 - 12/20 (full-time)

    • NLP, Recommendation, Text analysis, AI

    • Team Lead (Query Suggestion)

  • Research Professor, Korea university, Seoul, South Korea               9/17 - 12/17 

    • Biomedical text mining, Deep learning

  • Research Assistant, Korea university, Seoul, South Korea               3/11 - 8/17 

    • Social data mining, Search engine

■ Research Topics

• • Data Science, Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems

■ Publications 

[Google Scholar][DBLP]

International Journal

• • • Donghyeon Park, Yonghwa Choi, Daehan Kim, Minhwan Yu, Seongsoon Kim and Jaewoo Kang*. Can Machines Learn to Comprehend Scientific Literature? IEEE Access. 2019-01-09, Vol 7, Pages 16246-16256. (IF: 3.557)

    • Buru Chang, Yonggyu Park, Seongsoon Kim, Jaewoo Kang "DeepPIM: A Deep Neural Point-of-Interest Imputation Model ", Information Sciences 2018; Vol 465, Oct 2018, 61-71, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2018.06.065 

    • Kyubum Lee†, Byounggun Kim†, Yonghwa Choi, Sunkyu Kim, Wonho Shin, Sunwon Lee, Sungjoon Park, Seongsoon Kim, Aik Choon Tan and Jaewoo Kang "Deep learning of mutation-gene-drug relations from the literature", BMC Bioinformatics 2018 19:21. doi:10.1186/s12859-018-2029-1

    • Seongsoon Kim*, Donghyeon Park*, Yonghwa Choi*, Kyubum Lee, Byounggun Kim, Minji Jeon, Jihhye Kim, Aik-Choon Tan and Jaewoo Kang "A Pilot Study of Biomedical Text Comprehension using an Attention-based Deep Neural Reader: Design and Experimental Analysis", JMIR Medical Informatics 2018;6(1):e2, doi:10.2196/medinform.8751 (IF: 3.188)

    • Sunwon Lee, Donghyeon Kim, Kyubum Lee, Jaehoon Choi, Seongsoon Kim, Minji Jeon, Sangrak Lim, Donghee Choi, Sunkyu Kim, Aik-Choon Tan, Jaewoo Kang "BEST: Next-Generation Biomedical Entity Search Tool for Knowledge Discovery from Biomedical Literature",  PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164680. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164680, October 19, 2016 (SCIE, IF: 3.057)

    • Junkyu Lee, Seongsoon Kim, Sunwon Lee, Kyubum Lee, Jaewoo Kang "On the efficacy of per-relation basis performance evaluation for PPI extraction and a high-precision rule-based approach" BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013, Vol. 13, No. 1. Apr 5 2013 ( SCIE, IF: 1.48 )

    • Jaehoon Choi, Donghyeon Kim, Seongsoon Kim, Sunwon Lee, Kyubum Lee and Jaewoo Kang "BOSS: context-enhanced search for biomedical objects" BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Vol. 12, No. 1. Apr 30 2012 ( SCIE, IF: 2.23 )

International Conference

• • • Buru Chang, Yonggyu Park, Donghyeon Park, Seongsoon Kim, Jaewoo Kang "Content-Aware Hierarchical Point-of-Interest Embedding Model for Successive POI Recommendation"  The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018, https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/458 

    • Sunwon Lee, Donghyun Kim, Sunkyu Kim, Kyubum Lee, Jaehoon Choi, Seongsoon Kim, Minji Jeon, Sangrak Lim, Donghee Choi, Aik Choon Tan and Jaewoo Kang  "Next-Generation Biomedical Entity Search Tool for Knowledge Discovery from Biomedical Literature" The 25th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the 16th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2017), Prague, Czech Republic, July 21-25 2017 (Poster) 

    • Kyubum Lee, Byounggun Kim, Sunkyu Kim, Yonghwa Choi, Wonho Shin, Sunwon Lee, Sungjoon Park, Seongsoon Kim, Aik Choon Tan and Jaewoo Kang  "Deep Learning of Mutation-Gene-Drug Relations from the Literature for Precision Medicine" The 25th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the 16th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2017), Prague, Czech Republic, July 21-25 2017 (Poster) 

    • Seongsoon Kim*, Seongwoon Lee*, Donghyeon Park and Jaewoo Kang  "Constructing and Evaluating a Novel Crowdsourcing-based Paraphrased Opinion Spam Dataset" The 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Perth, Australia, April 3-7 2017 (Full paper, acceptance ratio: 17%) [한국정보과학회 KCC2018 Invited Paper]

    • Jukyong Lee, Yonghwa Choi, Suhkyung Kim, Seongsoon Kim, Jaewoo Kang "SEMO: Searching Majority Opinions on Movies using SNS and QA Threads" The 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), Montreal, Canada, April 11-15 2016 (Demo)

    • Donghyeon Kim, Sunwon Lee, Kyubum Lee, Jaehoon Choi, Seongsoon Kim, Minji Jeon, Sangrak Lim, Donghee Choi, Aik-Choon Tan, Jaewoo Kang "BEST: Next-Generation Biomedical Entity Search Tool for Knowledge Discovery from Biomedical Literature" The 5th Annual Translational Bioinformatics Conference (TBC 2015), Tokyo, Japan, Nov 7-9 2015

    • Seongsoon Kim, Hyeokyoon Chang, Seongwoon Lee, Minhwan Yu, Jaewoo Kang "Deep Semantic Frame-based Deceptive Opinion Spam Analysis" In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015), Melbourne, Australia. Oct 19-23 2015 (Full paper)

    • Jaehoon Choi, Donghyeon Kim, Donghee Choi, Sangrak Lim, Seongsoon Kim, Youngjae Choi and Jaewoo Kang "Smith Search: Opinion-Based Restaurant Search Engine" 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015), Florence, Italy. 18-22 May 2015 (Demo)

    • Junkyu Lee, Seongsoon Kim, Sunwon Lee, Kyubum Lee, Jaewoo Kang "High Precision Rule Based PPI Extraction and Per-Pair Basis Performance" ACM Sixth International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO 2012), Maui, Hawaii USA. Oct 29 2012

    • Jaehoon Choi, Donghyeon Kim, Seongsoon Kim, Junkyu Lee, Sunwon Lee and Jaewoo Kang "Consento: A New Framework for Opinion Based Entity Search and Summarization" Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Hawaii, US. Oct 29-Nov 2 2012 (Short paper)

    • Jaehoon Choi, Donghyeon Kim, Seongsoon Kim, Junkyu Lee, Sangrak Im, Sunwon Lee and Jaewoo Kang "Consento: A Consensus Search Engine for Answering Subjective Queries" Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW '12), Lyon, France. Apr 16-20 2012 (Poster)

    • Jaehoon Choi, Donghyeon Kim, Seongsoon Kim, Sunwon Lee, Kyubum Lee and Jaewoo Kang "BOSS: A Biomedical Object Search System" ACM Fifth International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO 2011), Glasgow, UK. Oct 24 2011

Domestic Journal

• • • 이성운, 김성순, 박동현, 강재우 "크라우드소싱 기반 문장재구성 방법을 통한 의견 스팸 데이터셋 생성 및 특성 분석" KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices, Vol.22, No.7, pp.338-343, Jul 2016

    • 최재훈, 최동희, 김동현, 김성순, 임상락, 강재우 "소셜 빅데이터를 활용한 의사 결정 검색 기술" 정보과학회지, Vol. 32, Issue 296, Pages 44-52. Jan 2014

    • 이철성, 최동희, 김성순, 강재우 "한글 마이크로블로그 텍스트의 감정 분류 및 분석" 정보과학회논문지: 데이타베이스, Vol. 40, No. 3, Pages 159-167. Jun 2013

Domestic Conference

• • • 김성순, 주원균 "스마트농업 진주기 의사결정 시스템 참조모델", 2024 한국인터넷정보학회 추계학술대회 

    • 김성순, 주원균 "스마트팜 데이터 정제 프로세스 및 품질 진단 도구 설계", 2024 한국인터넷정보학회 춘계학술대회 

    • 김성순, 주원균 "Multi-head Self-Attetion Encoder와 Attentive LSTM 혼합 모델을 활용한 잡음 포함 시계열 데이터의 복원 방법",  2023 한국정보통신학회 추계학술대회 

    • 주원균, 송유진, 정창후, 김성순 "복합 재배환경 기반 컨테이너형 스마트팜 테스트베드 구축", 대한전자공학회 2023 하계학술대회

    • 주원균, 송유진, 정창후, 김성순, 양명석 "엣지 컴퓨팅과 지능형 기술을 적용한 농작물 데이터 수집 및 재배 효율화 기법 설계", 대한전자공학회 2022 추계학술대회

    • 주원균, 송유진, 정창후, 김성순, 양명석 "빅데이터와 인공지능을 활용한 미래농업 활성화 방안에 대한 연구", 한국콘텐츠학회 2022 종합학술대회

    • 김성순, 양명석 "텍스트 마이닝을 활용한 국가 R&D과제 동향 분석: ICT 분야와 스마트시티 중심으로 ", ACK 2021, Nov 4 - Nov 6 (구두발표)

    • 김성순, 김민기, 박정현, 서민호 "모바일 빅데이터를 활용한 네트워크 모형 기반 도심지 이동 패턴 분석",  한국스마트미디어학회 2021 춘계학술대회 , Apr 30 - May 1 (구두발표)

    • 김민기, 김성순, 박정현, 서민호 "GIS기반 모바일 데이터 처리 및 분석 방법" 한국스마트미디어학회 2021 춘계학술대회 , Apr 30 - May 1 (Poster)

    • 김성순, 김민기, 박정현, 서민호 "오픈소스 검색 플랫폼 기반 대용량 모바일 데이터 가시화 연구", 제31회 통신정보 합동학술대회, Apr 28-30 (Poster)

    • 김래선, 김성순, 장헌석, 박석원, 강인호 "롱테일 질의 확장을 위한 추출 및 생성 기반 모델",  제 31회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회, Oct 15-16 2020 (구두발표)

    • 김성순, 박지혜, 은종진, 강인호 "딥러닝 모델을 활용한 로컬 검색로그에서 음식점 상호 판별", 제 30회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회 (구두발표), Oct 12-13 2018 [우수논문 선정]

    • 박동현, 김성순, 최용화, 강재우 "기계 이해의 학습을 위한 새로운 데이터셋의 제안" 한국멀티미디어학회 2016 추계학술대회 (구두발표), Oct 21-22 2016

    • 이성운, 김성순, 박동현, 강재우 "크라우드소싱 기반 문장재구성 방법을 통한 의견 스팸 데이터셋 생성 및 특성 분석" 한국정보과학회 2015년 동계학술대회 (구두발표, 우수논문), Dec 17-19 2015

    • 김성순, 장혁윤, 이성운, 강재우 "의미 프레임 자질 기반 의견 스팸 분석" 한국정보처리학회 2015년 춘계학술대회 (구두발표), April 25 2015

    • 임상락, 김성순, 장혁윤, 강재우 "문맥의 활용을 통한 개체 중의성 해결 조사" 2015 한국데이터베이스학술대회 논문집 Vol.1 No.1 (구두발표), May 15-16 2015

Patent

• • • 김성순, 주원균, 정창후 "심층학습 모델 기반의 농장 환경 데이터 이상치 탐지 및 보정 시스템",  출원번호 10-2023-0055299, 대한민국

    • 김성순, 주원균, 정창후, 송유진, 양명석 "엣지 컴퓨팅을 활용한 농장 환경 데이터 수집 시스템 및 방법", 출원번호 10-2023-0055298, 대한민국

    • Seongsoon KIM, Hyeokyoon CHANG, Sung-Woon LEE, Jaewoo KANG "METHOD, DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING OPINION SPAM BASED ON FRAME", 출원국:미국, 출원번호: 15/135,209, 출원일자: 2016-04-21

    • 김성순, 장혁윤, 이성운, 강재우 "프레임 기반 의견스팸 판단장치, 프레임 기반 의견스팸 판단방법, 프레임 기반으로 의견스팸을 판단하기 위한 컴퓨터 프로그램 및 컴퓨터 판독가능 기록매체", 등록번호: 10-1656741, 2016-09-06, 대한민국

Standards

• • • "Requirements and Procedures for Reliability Assessment of Smart Farm Data" (스마트팜 수집 데이터의 신뢰성 평가를 위한 요구사항 및 절차), TTAK.KO-10.1449, 2023. 12. 06 (Editor)

■ Awards

• • Best paper awards, 제 54회 한국정보통신학회 추계종합학술대회, 2023

  • Best paper awards, The 30th Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology, 2018

■ Academic Activity

Journal Reviewer

• • Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)

  • JMIR Medical Informatics (JMI)

  • JMIR Formative Research (JFR)

  • JMIR AI

  • JMIR Diabetes

Board Member

• • Telecommunication Technology Association of Korea (TTA), PG426 Smart Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Project Group 

  • Telecommunication Technology Association of Korea (TTA), PG606 Metadata Project Group 

Reviewer

• • KDBC 2017

  • VLDB 2016

  • BigComp 2015

  • ICDE 2015

  • WWW 2014

  • ICWSM 2014

  • WWW 2013

  • LBM 2013

  • BIBM 2013