About
Hello, I am an assistant professor at the college of computing at SungKyunKwan University (SKKU).
I got my Ph.D. in 2020 from KAIST and joined SKKU in the same year.
My research interests are in machine learning and natural language processing.
In particular, I work in probabilistic Bayesian topic models and artificial neural networks to discover latent patterns such as user preferences and intentions in unannotated data such as conversational corpora.
I am looking for motivated students. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in.
2020 Winter Office Hour: THU 1 ~ 3 PM, SKKU natural sciences campus 27306
Education
- KAIST, Ph.D., School of Computing, Mar 2013 - Aug 2020
- Advisor: Prof. Alice Haeyun Oh
- Dissertation: Speaker oriented Conversation Model and its Evaluation [PDF]
- KAIST, M.S., Computer Science, Feb 2011 - Feb 2013
- GPA: 3.98/4.30
- Thesis: Distributed Online Learning for Topic Models [PDF]
- Sungkyunkwan University, B.S., Computer Engineering, Mar 2004 - Feb 2011
- GPA: 4.45/4.50
- Graduation project: On-Line LEcture Allocation (Best project award)
Selected Publications
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Speaker Sensitive Response Evaluation Model
JinYeong Bak and Alice Oh.
[ACL] 2020
[PDF] [Code] [Lay Summary] -
Variational Hierarchical User-based Conversation Model
JinYeong Bak and Alice Oh.
[EMNLP] 2019
[PDF] [Code] -
Conversational decision-making model for predicting the kings decision in the annals of the Joseon dynasty
JinYeong Bak and Alice Oh.
[EMNLP] 2018
[PDF] [Code and Data] -
Rotated word vector representations and their interpretability
Sungjoon Park, JinYeong Bak, and Alice Oh.
[EMNLP] 2017
[PDF] [Code]
Employment
- Assistant Professor, College of Computing, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, Sep 2020 - Present
- Junior Data Scientist, United Nations Global Pulse Lab Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia, June 2016 - Aug 2016
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
References
- Prof. Alice Haeyun Oh, KAIST, alice.oh@kaist.edu
- Mr. Byung Il Woo, SK C&C, outerlight@gmail.com
- Dr. Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia, cyl@microsoft.com
- Prof. Eunseok Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, leees@skku.edu
- Dr. Jonggun Lee, OECD, jonggunlee@gmail.com
- Prof. Sang-Gu Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, sglee@skku.edu