JinYeong Bak

About

Hello, I am an assistant professor at the college of computing and informatics 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.

2021 Spring Office Hour: Fri 9 AM ~ Noon, 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]
  • Outstanding PhD Thesis Award [link]
• KAIST, M.S., Computer Science, Feb 2011 - Feb 2013
  • GPA: 3.98/4.30
  • Advisor: Prof. Alice Haeyun Oh
  • 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

1. Speaker Sensitive Response Evaluation Model
   JinYeong Bak and Alice Oh.
   [ACL] 2020
   [PDF] [Code] [Lay Summary]
2. Variational Hierarchical User-based Conversation Model
   JinYeong Bak and Alice Oh.
   [EMNLP] 2019
   [PDF] [Code]
3. 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]
4. 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

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