BYUNGKYU KANG
School Address
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110
(805) 893-4322
Address
779 Madrona Walk #B
Goleta, CA, 93117
(805) 455-9856
[email protected]
penguinkang.com
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Research Areas : Social Computing, Visual Analytics, and Human Computer Interaction
Ph.D. advisor: Tobias H¨
ollerer
Master of Science, Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Thesis: An Analysis of Credibility in Microblogs
M.Sc. advisor: Tobias H¨
ollerer
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Electronic Engineering
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
Expected 2016
June 2012
February 2007
PUBLICATIONS
• Sujoy Sikdar, Sibel Adali, Md Tanvir Amin, Tarek Abdelzaher, Kevin Chan, Jin-Hee Cho, Byungkyu
Kang, John O’Donovan. “Finding True and Credible Information on Twitter”, 17th International
Conference of Information Fusion (IEEE FUSION), Salamanca, Spain, July 2014.
• John O’Donovan, Byungkyu Kang. “Competence Modeling in Twitter: Mapping Theory to Practice”,
International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2013). Palo Alto, California., USA. May
27th-29th 2014
• Byungkyu Kang, George Legrady and Tobias H¨ollerer. TweetProbe: A Real-Time Microblog Stream
Visualization Framework. IEEE VIS, Arts Program (VISAP), Atlanta, Georgia, October 2013.
• Sujoy Sikdar, Byungkyu Kang, John O’Donovan, Tobias H¨ollerer, Sibel Adal, “Understanding Information Credibility on Twitter”, IEEE/ASE SocialCom, Washington, DC, USA, 2013 (Best paper)
• Sujoy Sikdar, Byungkyu Kang, John O’Donovan, Tobias H¨ollerer, Sibel Adal, “Cutting Through the
Noise: Defining Ground Truth in Information Credibility on Twitter”, ASE HUMAN JOURNAL 2.1,
2013
• James Schaffer, Byungkyu Kang, Tobias H¨ollerer, Hengchang Liu and John O.Donovan,“Interactive
Interfaces for Complex Network Analysis: A QoI Perspective”, IEEE International Conference on
Pervasive Computing and Communications(PERCOM), 2013
• John O’Donovan, Byungkyu Kang, Greg Meyer, Tobias H¨ollerer and Sibel Adali,“Credibility in Context: An Analysis of Feature Distributions in Twitter”, IEEE SocialCom, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
2012
• Byungkyu Kang, John O’Donovan and Tobias H¨ollerer, “Modeling Topic Specific Credibility in Twitter”, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces(IUI), Lisbon, Portugal, 2012
• Byungkyu Kang, John O’Donovan and Tobias H¨ollerer, “A Framework for Modeling Trust in Collaborative Ontologies”, Proceedings of the sixth Graduate Student Workshop on Computing, 2011, UC
Santa Barbara, 39-40.
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• Byungkyu Kang, Mathieu Rodrigue, Tobias H¨ollerer and Hwasup Lim, “Poster: Real Time Hand
Pose Recognition with Depth Sensors for Mixed Reality Interfaces”, IEEE Symposium on 3D User
Interfaces(3DUI), 2013.
• Byungkyu Kang, Dong-gyu Hwang, “Application Requirement Profile for USN based Expressway Infrastructure Management System”, Telecommunications Technology Association, Korea, 2007.
MEDIA ART PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
• B. Kang. “TweetProbe”. In A. G. Forbes and L. Thorson, editors. The IEEE VIS 2013 Art Show
Catalog, pages 12-13. IEEE, 2013.
• “Korea - 2012” with George Legrady, Data Curation, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, 23
May - 18 Aug, 2013
• “Making Visible the Invisible”, Information visualization using Seattle public library transactions.
Media Arts and Technology Program, UC Santa Barbara, 2013
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
University of California, Santa Barbara
January 2011 - Present
Four Eyes Lab, Department of Computer Science
Research Assistant
• Analyzing Information Credibility in Microblogs In this study, we conducted a controlled large-scale
user experiment to find and evaluate different cues in information credibility assessment in microblogs.
We showed how perceived credibility can varies based on different cue setup.
• Deconstructing Information Credibility on Twitter Conducted a study of two collections of tweets on
a similar topic and time frame for predicting information credibility. Analyzed the underlying context
and the credibility construct that can imply significantly different models for predicting information
credibility.
• Ambient/Interactive Data Visualization Interactive visualizations that serves as a conduit of emotional stream between the media—collective intelligence or dynamics of users on any kind of virtual
community—and individuals.
• Modeling Topic Specific Credibility in Twitter Proposed three computational models for recommending
credible topic-specific information in online social network(Twitter). Conducted an evaluation on 5
topic specific data sets mined from Twitter API, with specific focus on a data set of 40K users who
tweeted about the topic “Libya”.
• Interactive Interfaces for Complex Network Analysis Implemented a module that retrieves and processes tweets for an interactive data visualization framework. Users can interact with the framework
for understanding big social data at a glance.
• Real Time Hand Pose Recognition with Depth Sensors for Mixed Reality Interfaces
Presented a
method for predicting articulated hand poses in real-time with a single depth camera, such as the
Kinect, for the purpose of interaction in a Mixed Reality environment and for studying the effects of
realistic and non-realistic articulated hand models in a Mixed Reality Simulator.
• WiGis (Web-based Interactive Graph Interfaces) and KDD Project Developed modules in a novel
data visualization framework(WiGis) that retrieve, process and visualize information from various
sources(RDF, HTML, Social Network, etc.).
• A Step Towards Marker-less Augmented Reality and Tracking Implemented a real-time augmented
reality application using any pattern/object of choice based on SURF feature extraction, matching and
homography.
• A Framework for Modeling Trust in Collaborative Ontologies Proposed a novel approach in a collaborative semantic web context with trust and credibility models. Adopted three major variablesTrust,
Credibility and Expertise and developed a trust model to show trustworthiness of the provenance of
web ontologies
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• Exploring Social Graph with Facebook and Twitter API Implemented an interactive data visualization application using ActionScript. Visualized social structure with Twitter API in 2-D and 3-D
graphs/vectors.
Adobe Reseach
June 2014 - September 2014
Adobe Systems, San Jose
Data Scientist Intern
• Designed an audience manager for social marketers that detects influential users from social media and
provides a content-based landscape of the influential users through real-time web-based visualization
interface. Apache Spark was used as the main component for real-time implementation.
Yahoo! Labs
June 2013 - September 2013
Yahoo! Research, Barcelona
Research Intern
• DEESSE - entity-Driven Exploratory and sErendipitous Search SystEm Construct bundling algorithm,
design user interface and novel data visualization for entity-driven exploratory search. This project is
under the EU project ‘Linguistically Motivated Semantic Aggregation Engines (LiMoSINe)’.
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
June 2012 - August 2012
Imaging Media Research Center
Research Intern
• Real-Time Hand Pose Recognition from a Single Depth Image Conducted research on hand pose
recognition using depth image (Microsoft Kinect) based on object recognition approach using random
forest algorithm.
Samsung SDS
January 2007 - October 2008
Information Technology R&D Center
Research Associate
• WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) Conducted research and field test on various sites (expressway,
tunnel, indoor environments, etc.)
• User Interface Design for Mobile Phone Conducted a survey for the state-of-the-art software user
interfaces on various hand-held devices.
• RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) Designed integrated RFID systems for several supply chain
management(SCM) pilot projects(e.g. RFID infrastructure for Air Cargo).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
International Business Machines (IBM)
Global Technology Service, Seoul, Korea
Samsung
Samsung SDS, Information Technology R&D Center, Seoul, Korea
October 2008 - June 2009
System Engineer
January 2007 - October 2008
Research Associate
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
• National Science Foundation, Graduate Student Award, 2012 International Conference on Intelligent
User Interfaces (IUI2012)
February, 2012
• Award of Excellence, Korea Expressway Corp (1 of 2 grantee)
• Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea
2006
• Librarian scholarship, Central Library of Chung-Ang University
September, 2007
March, 2005 - December,
2003 - 2006
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TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Programming Languages:
Spark, C, C++, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, PYTHON, PHP, MATLAB,
HTML5 (Canvas), PROCESSING, ACTIONSCRIPT(FLEX), R.
• Databases and Distributed Systems
• Network Simulator
• Specialized Libraries
• Platforms
NoSQL(MongoDB), SQL, Hadoop
NS2, Planet Lab
D3.js, Node.js, Express, Weka, Python-NLTK, OpenCV, PBRT
Linux, MacOS, Windows, AIX
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Program Committee (Peer Reviewer)
• Data-driven User Behavioral Modelling and Mining from Social Media Workshop (DUBMOD) at ACM
Conference of International and Knowledge Management CIKM, Nov 3, 2014, Shanghai, China
• Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2014
• IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), 2014, Posters & Demonstrations
• Data-driven User Behavioral Modelling and Mining from Social Media Workshop (DUBMOD) at ACM
Conference of International and Knowledge Management CIKM, Oct 28, 2013, San Francisco, CA
• ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Sep 8, 2013, Washington D.C.
• International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces(IUI), 2013, Posters & Demonstrations
• the 7th Graduate Student Workshop on Computing, 2012, UC Santa Barbara
Other Services
• Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP), University of California, Mar 7, 2014, Invited talk to
highschool students.
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Volunteer Club, “Love Place”, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
March, 2000 - December, 2009
Community service of orphans(0-8 years old children) education and whole caring since 2000
• World Disaster Relief Organization, Korea
Permanent Supporter and Volunteer
January, 2008 - May, 2012
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REFERENCES
• Tobias H¨
ollerer, Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
[email protected]
• John O’Donovan, Research Scientist
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
[email protected]
• Matthew Turk, Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
[email protected]
• Hwasup Lim, Senior Research Scientist
Imaging Media Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST)
[email protected]