Professor
Hyuk-Yoon Kwon
Associate Professor, ITM Division, Dept. of Industrial Engineering / Graduate School of Data Science / Research Center for Electrical and Information Technology
Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 232 Gongneung-Ro, Nowon-Gu, Seoul, 01811, Republic of Korea
Office: 614 Frontier Hall, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Lab: 712 Mugung Hall, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Phone: +82-2-970-7280
E-mail: hyukyoon.kwon [at] seoultech [dot] ac [dot] kr
Brief Bio
Hyuk-Yoon Kwon is an associate professor at the ITM Division, Department of Industrial Engineering / Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University of Technology (SeoulTech). Before that, he worked at the Ministry of National Defense as a researcher from 2014 to 2018 and worked at KAIST as a postdoctoral researcher from 2013 to 2014. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from KAIST in 2013. He worked at Georgia Institute of Technology as a visiting scholar from 2024 to 2025 and at Microsoft Research in Asia as a research intern from 2011 to 2012. His research interests include data-driven AI/ML, big data management, distributed & cloud computing, federated & distributed learning, databases, data-centric cybersecurity, and data collection.
Dr. Kwon has served as the publication chair of IEEE BigComp from 2020 to 2024 and has served as the guest editor for a special issue of Applied Sciences, "Big Data Management and Analysis with Distributed or Cloud Computing", from Nov. 2020 to Oct. 2022.
Professional Experiences
Associate Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 2022-Present
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 2020-Present
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 2018-2022
Visiting Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024.2 ~ 2025.2
사외이사, 재단법인 미래기술연구소, 2020 - 2024
Researcher, Ministry of National Defense, 2014–2018
Postdoctoral Researcher, Advanced Information Technology Research Center, KAIST, 2013–2014
Research Intern, Web Search and Data Mining Group, Microsoft Research in Asia (Beijing) (Advisor: Dr. Haixun Wang), 2011–2012
Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, KAIST (Advisor: Kyu-Young Whang), 2013
Research Interests
Data-Driven AI/ML
Big data management
Distributed & cloud computing
Distributed & federated learning
Databases
Data-centric cybersecurity
Data collection
Editors
편집위원, 한국정보과학회지, 2022년 1월 ~ 2022년 12월.
편집위원, 한국정보과학회지, 2021년 1월 ~ 2021년 12월.
Guest editor, Special Issue "Big Data Management and Analysis with Distributed or Cloud Computing", Applied Sciences, Nov. 2020 ~ Oct. 2022.
Organizing Committee Member
Program char, The 7th International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering (DSDE 2024), 2024.
Publication chair, IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), 2020-2023
Local chair, Korean Database Conference (KDBC) 2020
Publication chair, Korean Database Conference (KDBC) 2019
Web chair, KJDB (Korea-Japan Database Workshop) 2018
Program Committee Member
The 6th International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering (DSDE 2023)
IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp) 2021, 2022
International Conference on Web Services(ICWS): 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Session Chair
Journal Reviewers
VLDB Journal: 2019
Information fusion: 2023
Scientific report: 2022
The Journal of Supercomputing: 2018, 2021
IEEE Access: 2019, 2020, 2021
Plos One: 2021, 2022
Data Technologies and Applications: 2021, 2022
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience: 2021
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua: 2021, 2022
Applied Sciences: 2020
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: 2021
Electronics: 2021
Sustainability: 2020
Micromachines: 2020
Mathematics: 2020
Reviewer board member, Signals, Sept. 2020 - present
Journal of KIISE Database Society of Korea: Database Research: 2019, 2020, 2021