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Interactive Visual Analysis and Data Exploration Research

(iVADER)


Lab.: http://ivaderlab.unist.ac.kr/

Open positions)
*I am looking for motivated undergraduate research interns and graduate students.
   - Tasks: Design, implement, and evaluate novel user interfaces, visualization techniques, interaction methods, and visual analytics systems (using deep learning).    

*If you are interested in researching on human perception, cognition, interactions (in VR and AR), deep learning interfaces and applications, please email me.


Important! To work with me you should contact me first before you apply. 

See my calendar to schedule a meeting: http://ivader.unist.ac.kr/my-calendar


Desired programing skills) Any combination of C++, Java, Python, OpenGL, Unity, Web development (JavaScript, D3.js, WebGL, jQuery, Django, HIghcharts, Raphael, Bootstrap, MongoDB,  ...). 

Sungahn Ko (고성안) 

Assistant Professor

School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Korea

Office:  Bldg. 106 401-10

Tel: +82 52 217 2161, Fax: 052-217-2128


Education
  •  Ph.D. Purdue Univ., 2014 (Advisors: Dr. David Ebert, Dr. Niklas Elmqvist)
  •  M.S. KAIST, 2008 (Advisor: Dr. Kyu Ho Park)
  •  B.E. Korea Univ., 2006

Work


Research areas


  • Visual analytics (with Machine Learning/Deep Learning)
  • Information visualization
  • HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)
  • Data Analytics and Mining
  • User Interface and Software Design and Evaluation (UI/UX Design)
  • Human Perception/Cognitive Science
  • Human Factors in VR/AR

Visualization research keywords
*Machine-Learning (ML), Deep Learning, big data, multivariate, multi-dimensional, high-dimensional, spatial, temporal, spatial-temporal, business intelligence, disaster, financial, traffic and movement analysis, bioinformatics

HCI research keywords
*User interface design, human (or personal) activity analysis, human perception and pattern recognition ability analysis, human factors in visualization, recommender system UI/UX

MS-PhD:

Kihwan Kim (B.E., UNIST)


M.S. Students:

Juyoung Oh (B.E., UNIST, ETRI intern, 2016 Winter)

Chunggi Lee (B.E., UNIST)

Jaesung Lee (B.E., UNIST, ETRI intern, 2017 Summer)

Dongyun Han (B.E., UNIST)

Gorahk Parsad


Undergraduates Interns:

Hong Jun Yang

Hwiyeon Kim

Yeonjun Kim

Chanmin Kim

Sanghoon Kim 

Hansu Cheon

Poongsung Lee

Jeongmin Yu

Askar Gabit


Alumni

2018 M.S.: Kuatbek Mukabak

2018 Undergraduate (Interns): Soyeun Lee (LG Electronics), Hansol Yoo (Hana Bank Data Analytics Team)

2017 Undergraduate (Interns): Yousang Oh (Samsung Electronics), Hyungmin Kang (Naver LIne), YongSeok Jung (LG Electronics)


Courses

ITP 701, 703 Engineering Programming (2017 SPR)

CSE 24101 Object-oriented programing (2016 SPR, 2017 Fall, 2018 Fall)

CSE 48001 Information Visualization (2016 Fall), Human-Computer Interaction (2018 Spr)

ECE 52401 Software Engineering (2016 Fall)

CSE 61001 Visual Analytics (2017 Fall), Advanced Human-Computer Interaction (2018 Spr)


Professional Activities

Paper Reviews: 

EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 2017

IEEE Pacific Visualization, 2017, 2018

IEEE VIS (VAST), 2016, 2017, 2018

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2017

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2016

ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2018

HICSS, 2018


Services:

IEEE Pacific Visualization, Sponsorship chair (2017) & Visualization Notes Committee (2018)


Links

UNIST ECE: http://ece.unist.ac.kr/

UNIST Address: 401-10, Bldg. 106, 50, UNIST-gil, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.

우편번호 44919, 울산광역시 울주군 언양읍 유니스트길 50, 울산과학기술원, 106동 401-10

Lab: 106동 303호