Prof. Kyomin Jung

Kyomin Jung is a professor at Seoul National University Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Currently he is serving as a vice-Chair of the ECE department for student affairs. 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, and graduated from Seoul Science High School in February 1996.

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 is a recipient of the excellent new faculty funding from NRF Korea since 2012.

kjung@snu.ac.kr