Curriculum Vitae

Jaeyong Kang
DMCB Lab., Dasan 618,
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology,
123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Korea
kjysmu@gist.ac.kr or kjysmu@gmail.com

Research Interests
Data mining, text mining, machine learning, natural language processing, agent-based information retrieval,
semantic web, social media analysis, recommender systems, sentiment analysis, algorithmic composition, and deep
learning.

Education
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea Mar. 2009 - Feb. 2017 (Expected)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis: User Interest Modeling in Social Media for Personalized Services.
Advisor: Prof. Hyunju Lee, hyunjulee@gist.ac.kr
Formal Advisor : Prof. Kwang Mong Sim, prof_sim_2002@yahoo.com

Changwon National University (CNU), Changwon, Korea Mar. 2005 - Feb. 2009
B.S. in Computer Engineering

Publications
International Journal
Jaeyong Kang, Hyunju Lee, Modeling User Interest in Social Media using News Media and Wikipedia,
Information Systems, doi:10.1016/j.is.2016.11.003, Accepted for publication, 2016.
Jaeyong Kang, Kwang Mong Sim, Ontology-enhanced Agent-based Cloud Service Discovery,
International Journal of Cloud Computing. 2016.
Jaeyong Kang, Kwang Mong Sim, A Multiagent Brokering Protocol for Supporting Grid Resource
Discovery, Applied Intelligence, 37(4), 527542, 2012.

International Conference
Jaeyong Kang, Kwang Mong Sim, A Cloud Portal with A Cloud Service Search Engine, Proc. of the
2011 International Conference on Information and Intelligent Computing (ICIIC11), Hong Kong, 2011.
Jaeyong Kang, Kwang Mong Sim, Towards Agents and Ontology for Cloud Service Discovery, Proc.
of the 2011 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery
(CyberC11), Beijing, China, 2011.
Jaeyong Kang, Kwang Mong Sim, Ontology and Search Engine for Cloud Computing System, Proc. of
the 2011 International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE11), Macau, China, 2011.
Jaeyong Kang, Kwang Mong Sim, Cloudle: An Ontology-enhanced Cloud Service Search Engine,
Proc. of the 2010 International Workshop on Cloud Information System Engineering (CISE10), Hong
Kong, 2010.
Jaeyong Kang, Kwang Mong Sim, Cloudle: A Multi-criteria Cloud Service Search Engine, Proc. of the
2010 IEEE Asia-Pacific Service Computing Conference (APSCC10), Hangzhou, China, 2010.
 Jaeyong Kang, Kwang Mong Sim, Cloudle : An Agent-based Cloud Search Engine that Consults a Cloud
Ontology, Proc. of the 2010 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CCV10),
Singapore, 2010.
Jaeyong Kang, Kwang Mong Sim, A Brokering Protocol for Agent-Based Grid Resource Discovery,
Proc. of the 2009 International Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing (GDC09), Jeju Island,
Korea, 2009.

Programming Skills
Languages: Java, Python, C, C++, C#, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, JSP, PHP.
IDEs: Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, Spyder.
Platforms: Linux, Mac OS, Windows.

Research Experiences
Research Assistant at Data Mining and Computational Biology (DMCB) Lab., GIST 2012 - 2016
Adviser: Prof. Hyunju Lee.
Topics: text mining, machine learning, databases, sentiment analysis, social media mining, deep learning
Projects
Modeling user interest in social media for personalized services.
News media articles and categories are used to estimate a user interest without labeled data.
Wikipedia-based features are devised to capture the semantics of social media text.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and word embedding technique are used to estimate a
user interest with labeled data.
Sentizer: Sentiment analysis systems for twitter data.
Word embeddings, n-grams, sentiment lexicons, and etc. are used to map tweets into feature
vectors.
The feature vectors from tweets are used to determine the sentiment of tweets using SVM
classifier.
Bio-signals database design and implementation
Bio-signals database is used to store and manage the extracted features of emotional audience
responses during cultural events.

Research Assistant at Multi-agent and Cloud Computing Systems (MACCS) Lab., GIST 2009 - 2012
Adviser: Prof. Kwang Mong Sim.
Topics: multi-agent systems, ontology, search engine, agent-based information retrieval.
Projects
Cloudle: An ontology-enhanced cloud service search engine.
Cloud ontology is designed in order to represent semantic relations among Cloud service
concepts.
Three kinds of reasoning methods are devised and implemented for determining the similarity
among Cloud services.
Designing a brokering protocol for agent-based grid resource discovery.
Three types of agents (user agent, provider agent, and broker agent) are used.
Each broker agent connects user agents to provider agents using the connection algorithm which
mainly consists of 4 stages: selection, evaluation, filtering, and recommendation.

Research Assistant at Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab., CNU 2006 - 2008
Adviser: Prof. Jeong-Won Cha.
Topics: Information retrieval, natural language processing, POS tagging.
Professional Activities
Speaker/Attendee
The 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE15), Seoul, Korea, 2015.
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW14), Seoul, Korea, 2014.
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM12), Brussels, Belgium, 2012.
International Conference on Information and Intelligent Computing (ICIIC11), Hong Kong, 2011
International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery
(CyberC11), Beijing, China, 2011.
International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE11), Macau, China, 2011.
The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Information System Engineering (CISE10), Hong Kong, 2010.
IEEE Asia-Pacific Service Computing Conference (APSCC10), Hangzhou, China, 2010.
International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CCV10), Singapore, 2010.
International Multi-Conference of Engineers and Computer Scientist (IMECS10), Hong Kong, 2010.
International Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing (GDC09), Jeju Island, Korea, 2009.

Conference Reviewer
International Conference on Control Automation & Information Sciences (ICCAIS16), 2016

Honors and Awards

Qualcomm-GIST Innovation Award (IT Research Paper Award), 2016
Full scholarships, GIST, 2009 - 2016
First Runner Up, CNU Programming Contest, 2006.
CNU NURI Scholarships for Outstanding Students, 2006 - 2009.

Patents
International patents
Method for Modeling User Interest in Social Media, 2016. (Patent pending)

Languages
Korean : Native
English : Fluent