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Hi, I am Sungbok.
I am currently an assistant professor at the dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea. I currently lead the Interactive Data Science Group (building the website soon...) at Sogang University. If interested, please fill out the form here (I might look for 2~3 undergraduate research interns).
Before, I was a Postdoc @ Inria (France), Seoul National University (South Korea), and Aarhus University (Denmark). I received the Ph.D. degree from the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, in 2024. My advisor was Dr. Niklas Elmqvist. I was a member of VisTeam at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL). Prior to studying at UMD, I worked with Dr. Jaegul Choo as a master's student in Computer Science and Engineering at Korea University, from Mar. 2017 to Feb. 2019. I earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering / Mathematics (dual degree), also at Korea University in Feb. 2017.
My research contributes to the fields of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) and Information Visualization. I mainly try to think of ways to augment visualization design process using AI techniques.
I also worked on, and am still interested in other topics such as (1) situated visualizations (embedding data visualization to the World), (2) urban analytics (topic-driven anomalous event detection in urban areas), and (3) AI applications in general.
My email addresses are sbshin90@{sogang.ac.kr, cs.umd.edu} and sb.shin.mail@gmail.com. All of them are fine. Here is my CV.
My office is at (김대건관) K532 @ Sogang University.
Publications
Publications
2026
A Transformer Architecture via Lightweight Sigmoid Attention for Graph Collaborative Filtering 🆕
Hyungjin Kim, Seokho Ahn, Minhye Jeon, Sungbok Shin, Young-Duk Seo
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'2026), 2026, Rome, Italy
Treadstone: A Communication Channel for Human-AI Collaborative Data Analysis
Hyunwook Lee, Sungbeom Cho, William Benjamin, Changhee Lee, Hyotaek Jeon, Daeun Jeong, Sungbok Shin, Sungahn Ko, Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS'2026), 2026, Boston, MA, United States
Stop Misusing t-SNE and UMAP for Visual Analytics
Hyeon Jeon, Jeongin Park, Sungbok Shin, Jinwook Seo
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS'2026), 2026, Boston, MA, United States
Visualization Autocomplete: Visualization Authoring via Stepwise Design Recommendations
Hyeon Jeon, Sungbok Shin**, Niklas Elmqvist (**: Correspondence)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS'2026), 2026, Boston, MA, United States
Enriching Semantic Profiles into Knowledge Graph for Recommender Systems Using Large Language Models
Seokho Ahn, Sungbok Shin*, Young-Duk Seo* (*: Co-correspondence)
ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2026), 2026, Jeju, South Korea
Dataset-Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction
Hyeon Jeon, Jeongin Park, Soohyun Lee, Dae Hyun Kim, Sungbok Shin, Jinwook Seo
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS'2025), 32(1), 462 - 472, 2026, Vienna, Austria
2025
Visualizationary: Automating Design Feedback for Visualization Designers Using Large Language Models
Sungbok Shin, Sanghyun Hong, Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 31(10), 8796 - 8813, 2025 (invited at IEEE VIS'2025, Vienna, Austria)
Drillboards: Adaptive Visualization Dashboards for Dynamic Personalization of Visualization Experiences
Sungbok Shin*, Inyoup Na*, Niklas Elmqvist (*: Equal contributions)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 31(10), 7196 - 7210, 2025 (invited at IEEE VIS'2025, Vienna, Austria)
Conversation Progress Guide: UI System for Enhancing Self-Efficacy in Conversational AI
Daeun Jeong, Sungbok Shin, Jongwook Jeong
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'2025), 180:1 - 11, 2025, Yokohama, Japan
Real-time Calibration Model for Low-cost Sensor in Fine-grained Time Series
Seokho Ahn, Hyungjin Kim, Sungbok Shin, Young-Duk Seo
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2025), 2025, Philadelphia, PA, United States
2024
The Reality of the Situation: A Survey of Situated Analytics
Sungbok Shin, Andrea Batch, Peter W. S. Butcher, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 30 (8), 5147 - 5164, 2024 (invited at IEEE VIS'2023, Melbourne, Australia)
Simulation, Representation, and Automation: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence for Augmenting Visualization Design
Sungbok Shin
Doctoral Dissertation, 2024, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
2023
Evaluating View Management for Situated Visualization in Web-based Handheld AR
Andrea Batch, Sungbok Shin, Julia Liu, Peter W. S. Butcher, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Niklas Elmqvist
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis'2023), 42 (3), 1~12, 2023, Leipzig, Germany
Perceptual Pat: A Virtual Human Visual System for Iterative Visualization Design
Sungbok Shin, Sanghyun Hong, Niklas Elmqvist
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'2023), 811:1~17, 2023, Hamburg, Germany
[PDF][Link]
A Scanner Deeply: Predicting Gaze Heatmaps on Visualizations Using Crowdsourced Eye Movement Data
Sungbok Shin, Sunghyo Chung, Sanghyun Hong, Niklas Elmqvist
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS'2022), 29 (1), 396 - 406, 2023, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
[PDF][Link]
Before 2023
TopicOnTiles: Tile-Based Spatio-Temporal Event Analytics via Exclusive Topic Modeling on Social Media
Minsuk Choi, Sungbok Shin, Jinho Choi, Scott Langevin, Chris Bethune, Philippe Horne, Nathan Kronenfeld, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Barry Drake, Haesun Park, Jaegul Choo
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'2018), 583:1~11, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada
[PDF][Link]
Localized User-Driven Topic Discovery via Boosted Ensemble of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Sangho Suh, Sungbok Shin, Joonseok Lee, Chandan K. Reddy, and Jaegul Choo
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 503-531, 2018
[PDF][Link]
STExNMF: Spatio-Temporally Exclusive Topic Discovery for Anomalous Event Detection
Sungbok Shin, Minsuk Choi, Jinho Choi, Scott Langevin, Chris Bethune, Philippe Horne, Nathan Kronenfeld, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Barry Drake, Haesun Park, and Jaegul Choo
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'2017),435-444, 2017, New Orleans, LA, United States (Long paper)
[PDF][Link]
Career
Career
Aarhus University (CA3 Center) Aarhus, Denmark
Postdoctoral Fellow 10.2025 ~ (present)
(PI: Dr. Niklas Elmqvist)
Seoul National University (HCIL) Seoul, South Korea
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar 9.2025 ~ 9.2025
(PI: Dr. Jinwook Seo)
Inria (Aviz) Saclay, France
Postdoctoral Fellow 9.2024 ~ 8.2025
(PI: Dr. Jean-Daniel Fekete)
University of Maryland (VisTeam @ HCIL) College Park, MD, United States
Graduate research/teaching assistant 8.2019 ~ 8.2024
(Advised by: Dr. Niklas Elmqvist)
Korea University (DAVIAN Lab) Seoul, South Korea
Under-/Graduate research assistant 10.2016 ~ 3.2019
(Advised by: Dr. Jaegul Choo)
Education
Education
University of Maryland College Park, MD, United States
Ph.D. in Computer Science 8.2019 ~ 8. 2024
Korea University Seoul, South Korea
M.Eng., Computer Science and Engineering 3.2017 ~ 2.2019
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering / Mathematics (dual degree) 3.2009 ~ 2.2017
Skills
Skills
Programming languages: Python, Matlab, Javascript (D3, JQuery), HTML (CSS), C/C++
Languages: Native in Korean
Fluent in oral and written English (though, I think my written English is better)
Conversant in French (passed DALF-C1 :))
Awards and Fellowships
Awards and Fellowships
Dean's Fellowship for outstanding academic achievement ($2,500/yr, 2 years), 2019, University of Maryland
Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship ($5,000 during Summer 23'), 2023, University of Maryland
Talks and presentations
Talks and presentations
IEEE ICDM Conference, Nov 2017, New Orleans, LA, United States, Author
IEEE VIS Conference, Oct 2022, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, Author
CS @ Inha University, Jan 2023, Incheon, South Korea, Small Talk
ACM CHI Conference, Apr 2023, Hamburg, Germany, Author
HCIL Symposium @ University of Maryland, May 2023, College Park, MD, United States, Small Talk
HAIV Lab @ UNIST, Aug 2023, Ulsan, South Korea, Talk
IEEE VIS Conference, Oct 2023, Melbourne, Australia, Author
Data Science @ Inha University, Nov 2023, Online, Online Seminar
Interactive Data Computing Lab @ SKKU, Jan 2024, Suwon, South Korea, Small Talk
HVCL Lab @ Korea University, Jan 2024, Seoul, South Korea, Lab Talk
VISUS Group @ University of Stuttgart, Jan 2024, Stuttgart, Germany, Weekly Colloquium
Services
Services
IEEE VIS Conference, Oct 2022, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, Student Volunteer
ACM CHI Conference, Apr 2023, Hamburg, Germany, Student Volunteer
IEEE VIS Conference, Oct 2023, Melbourne, Australia, Student Volunteer
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