Prof. Kyomin Jung

Kyomin Jung is a professor at Seoul National University Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He served as a vice-Chair of the ECE department for student affairs (2021-2023). He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences SNU. He worked at KAIST Computer Science department from 2009 to 2013, where he had joint appointments at the department of Electrical Engineering, and the department of Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. at MIT in June 2009, and B.Sc. at Seoul National University in August 2003.

He was a visiting professor at MIT in summer 2013, and at Microsoft Research Cambridge at summer 2010, and summer 2009. During his Ph.D., he worked at Microsoft Research Cambridge (2008), IBM T.J. Watson Research (2007), and Bell Labs (2006) as summer research internships. He was a recipient of Samsung Lee Kun Hee Scholarship for graduate study, and he was a gold medalist at the IMO (International Mathematical Olympiad) 1995. He received the 2023 Sinyang Academic Award for Engineering from SNU College of Engineering, and the 2021 IEEE ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award from IEEE. He was a recipient of the excellent new faculty funding from NRF Korea since 2012.

kjung@snu.ac.kr