For prospective students, please reach out to us at susik{@}korea.ac.kr with your CV, a statement of research interests, and motivation for joining our lab. You can also fill out this form to be added to a candidate pool.
We have limited openings for graduate studies. We generally encourage students to gain experience with us through an internship and/or Professor Yoon's courses at Korea University before applying. However, we also welcome highly motivated students who are a strong fit for our lab.
Please take a look at the following to get a high-level idea of what it is like to work with us.
Culture
Our mission is to empower innovation through data-driven insights, fostering intelligence systems with adaptive capabilities. Pursuing this goal, we believe it can contribute to positive impacts on people and society by providing seamless assistance, promoting sustainability, maintaining alignment, or whatever [you define]. We value the growth of our team members who share our mission. We strongly believe that individual growth contributes to the growth of the team, making it possible for us to accomplish more than we ever thought possible. We are still working on defining our philosophy and culture for running the lab, and we welcome your participation in this process.
Roles and expectations
Undergraduate students
Explore and study research topics you are interested in
Participate in research projects, analyze existing works, and/or develop your new ideas
Encouraged to submit a paper to domestic conferences (e.g., Korea Computer Congress) or prepare a paper for the top venues*
Graduate students
Design the research goal that you will pursue in your graduate studies
Find and develop research ideas to submit papers at the top venues*
Participate in research projects with domestic/global academia/industry that are aligned with your research goal
Publish a strong, consistent thesis on your research goal
It is highly encouraged to do an internship before starting graduate studies
Post-docs/researchers
Lead your research projects and publish papers at the top venues*
Mentor and collaborate with interns and graduate students if preferred
*Target top venues: Data Science (KDD, WWW, SIGIR, CIKM, ICDM, etc.), Natural Language Processing (ACL, EMNLP, etc.), Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, ICLR, etc.), and relevant high-ranked journals.
What we would expect from you
Be passionate about what you study
Be respectful to whom you work with
Be responsible for what you do
What you could expect from us
Conducting a high-quality research project and publishing top-tier papers
Research-focused culture and working environments
Encouragement for active collaborations within/outside the team
Previous/current collaboration
International: UIUC, Boston Univ., Virginia Tech, Stanford, Google, Amazon, Univ. of Vermont, Univ. of Macau, etc.
Domestic: UNIST, SKKU, KAIST, CNU, Yonsei, Postech, IBS, ETRI, Naver, UNIST, etc.