Professor

Biography

I am an assistant professor at the School of Electrical Engineering (CNS group) at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). My research interests include Database-Artificial Intelligence (DB-AI) Integration, Big Data Analytics, and Big Data Systems. Prior to KAIST, I was a Research Scientist at Google Research working on data infrastructure for TensorFlow Extended (Google's large-scale machine learning platform). Before Google, I was a Ph.D. student and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University. I was a member of the Stanford InfoLab working with Professor Hector Garcia-Molina. Here is my CV (updated Sept. 2018).

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2012 (advisor: Hector Garcia-Molina)
  • MS in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2007 (advisor: Jennifer Widom)
  • BS in Computer Science, KAIST, 2003

Work Experience

  • Research Scientist, Google Research (2012/12 - 2018/1)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University (2012/7 - 2012/12)

Honors

  • Google AI Focused Research Award (2018-2019)
  • Best Paper Award, WebDB Workshop (2015/5)
  • IBM PhD Fellowship (2011-2012)
  • School of Engineering Fellowship, Stanford University (2007-2008)
  • Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS) Fellowship (2005-2007)
  • KAIST President's Prize for ranking 1st in Computer Science Department (2003/2)

Professional Service

  • Program Committee Member: PVLDB (2018, 2016, 2015), ACM SIGMOD (2018, 2015, 2014, 2013), IEEE ICDE (2017, 2015, 2014), EDBT (2016)
  • Journal Reviewer: VLDB Journal, IEEE TKDE, ACM TODS

Contact Information

  • Email: swhang {at} kaist {dot} ac {dot} kr
  • Phone: +82-42-350-7443
  • Office: N1-516
  • Lab: N1-519

Fun Fact

I am an alum of KAIST swimming team KAORI