About Seungyeon Kim
Name
- First Name: Seungyeon
- Last name: Kim
- Meaning: Seungyeon is a compound word; seung and yeon. In chinese character, seung(昇) means rising and yeon(淵) means lake. The name means rising from the lake in my personal opinion; there was no intention to mean this in naming.
Education
- (current) Georgia Institute of Technology; Master in Computer Science.
- Seoul National University, Korea; Bacholor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
Research
- (current)Research Assistant on “Modeling and Visualization of Versioned Documents” Jan. 2010 - Present
- Statistical Machine Learning and Visualization Laboratory, Georgia Tech (http://cc.gatech.edu/smlv)
- Research Intern on “Hypernetwork Models for Language Learning” Sep. 2008 - Sep. 2009
- Biointelligence Laboratory, Seoul National University (http://bi.snu.ac.kr)
- “Path Resemblance Approximation with One-way Delay Analysis.” Bachelor’s Thesis
Work Experience
- Daum Communications, Seoul, Korea. Dec. 2007 – Jun. 2008
- Intern, Software Engineer
- Renovated Daum Book Service (http://book.daum.net) as a main programmer
- Online dictionary algorithm proposal was accepted
- Rebi Corp, Seoul, Korea Sep. 2007 – Dec. 2007
- Team leader
- Project coursework, Improved website crawling algorithm, OPIC
- Korea Internet Volunteer, Nairobi, Kenya Summer 2007
- Lecturer for website building and publishing software
Leadership Roles
- UPnL, Software Dev. Club, Seoul National University, Korea. Feb. 2004 – Jul. 2004
- President
- Duties: Responsible for combining two software development clubs into UPnL, drafted club regulations, organized and instructed elementary programming course for freshmen
- Supported by Samsung SDS
Academic Fellowships and Awards
- Seoul National University: University Fellowship
- Korea Science and Engineering Foundation: National Undergraduate Science & Technology Scholarship, 2007 (full tuition)
- Kenya Institute of Highways and Buildings Tech: Certification for Volunteering
Extracurricular
- Military Service: Sergeant, Republic of Korea Air Force Jul.2004 – Oct.2006
Other Skills
- Languages: Korean (native), English (fluent)