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· AALab Blog (Korean).
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· Kyomin Jung is an
assistant professor in the department of Computer
Science at KAIST. He
has joint appointments in the department of Mathematics, and in
the department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST.
· He received Ph.D. in MIT Mathematics department in June 2009, and he was a member of LIDS(Laboratories
for Information and Decision Systems), where he worked with Devavrat Shah.
· He is a recipient of the Outstanding
New Faculty Funding from NRF (May 2012 ~ April
2015).
· In summer 2009 & summer 2010, he was a visiting professor in Microsoft
Research Machine Learning and Perception Group, Cambridge, UK.
· In summer 2008, he
worked as a research internship in Microsoft Research Machine Learning and
Perception Group, Cambridge, UK.
· In summer 2007, he
worked as a research internship in IBM T.J. Watson Research Center System
Analysis and Optimization Group, Yorktown, NY, USA.
· In summer 2006, he
worked as a research internship in Bell Labs Department of Mathematics of
networks and systems, Murray Hill, NJ, USA.
· In summer 2005, he
worked as a research internship in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology Communication
and Network Lab, Giheung, Korea.
· In winter 2003-2004,
he was a visiting researcher in Microsoft
Research Theory group, Redmond, WA, USA.
· His graduate study was supported by Samsung Lee Kun Hee Scholarship Foundation. (Fall 2004 ~
Spring 2008)
· He completed B.Sc. in the Department of
Mathematics, Seoul National University, Korea.
· He was a Gold Medalist
in IMO(International
Mathematical Olympiad) 1995 held in Toronto, Canada.
· His Research
Interest
includes 1) Complex network modeling and
analysis,
and 2) Machine learning.
· Graduate students:
Yongsub Lim, Sungsu Lim, Byungkon Kang, Woosang Lim, Minhwan Kim.
· Undergraduate Research Program: Hwaran Lee.
· Countries I have
been to includes Korea, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia,
Philippine, India, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Egypt,
Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, UK, Spain, Ireland, Netherlands,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Monte Carlo, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland.
· Courses
· Spring 2012: CS500. Algorithms: Design and
Analysis.
· Fall 2011: CS340. Theory
and Applications of Network Science.
· Spring 2011: CS500. Algorithms: Design and
Analysis.
· Fall 2010: CS340. Network
of Things.
· Fall 2010: CS478. Financial
Data Analysis and Mining.
· Spring 2010: CS500. Algorithms: Design and
Analysis.
· Fall 2009: CS774. Markov Random Field: Theory and
Application.
· Journal Publications
1.
Arnab Bhattacharyya, Elena Grigorescu, Kyomin Jung, Sofya Raskhodnikova and David Woodruff, Transitive-Closure Spanners, To appear in SIAM J. on Computing (SICOMP). 
2.
Arnab Bhattacharyya, Elena Grigorescu, Madhav Jha, Kyomin Jung, Sofya Raskhodnikova
and David Woodruff, Lower Bounds for Local Monotonicity
Reconstruction from Transitive-Closure Spanners, To appear in
SIAM J. on Discrete Math (SIDMA). 
3.
Sung-soon Choi, Kyomin Jung and Jeong Han Kim, Almost Tight Upper Bound for Finding Fourier Coefficients of
Bounded Pseudo-Boolean Functions, Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), v.77, n.6,
1039-1053, 2011.
4.
Kyomin Jung, Devavrat Shah and Jinwoo Shin, Distributed Averaging Via Lifted Markov Chains, IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, v.56, n.1,
634-647, 2010.
5.
Elena Grigorescu, Kyomin
Jung and Ronitt
Rubinfeld, A Local Decision Test for Sparse Polynomials, Information Processing
Letters, v.110, n.20, 898-901, 2010.
6.
Sung-soon Choi, Kyomin Jung and Byung-Ro Moon,
Lower and Upper Bounds for Linkage Discovery, IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, v.13,n.2, 201-216, 2009.
7.
Sung-Soon Choi, Kyomin Jung and Jeong Han Kim, Phase Transition
in a Random NK Landscape Model, Artificial Intelligence
172(2-3): 179-203, 2008.
· Conference Proceedings
- Kyomin Jung, Bo Young Kim, and Milan Vojnovic, Distributed Ranking in Networks with
Limited Memory and Communication, To appear in IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory (ISIT), July
2012, Cambridge, MA, USA.

- Sungsu Lim, Kyomin Jung and Matthew
Andrews, Stability of the Max-Weight Protocol in Adversarial Wireless
Networks, IEEE International Conference on Computer
Communications (INFOCOM), March 2012, Orlando, FL, USA.

- Yongsub Lim, Kyomin Jung and Pushmeet Kohli, Energy Minimization Under Constraints on Label
Counts, European Conference
on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2010, Crete, Greece.
- Arnab Bhattacharyya, Elena
Grigorescu, Madhav Jha, Kyomin Jung, Sofya
Raskhodnikova and David Woodruff, Lower Bounds for Local
Monotonicity Reconstruction from Transitive-Closure Spanners, International Workshop on Randomization and Computation
(RANDOM), September 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
- SeongHun Lee, Min Su Cho, Kyomin Jung, and Jin Hyung Kim, Scene Text Extraction with Edge Constraint and
Text Collinearity, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR),
August 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Yoram Bachrach, Reshef Meir, Kyomin Jung, and Pushmeet Kohli, Coalitional Structure Generation in Skill Games, Proceedings AAAI-10, July 2010, Atlanta,
USA.
- Kyomin
Jung, Pushmeet Kohli and Devavrat Shah, Local Rules for Global MAP: When Do They Work ?, Annual Conference on
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2009, Vancouver,
Canada.
- Ramakrishna Gummadi, Kyomin Jung, Devavrat Shah
and Ramavarapu Sreenivas, Computing Capacity Region of a Wireless Network, IEEE International Conference on Computer
Communications (INFOCOM), April 2009, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
- Arnab Bhattacharyya, Elena Grigorescu, Kyomin Jung, Sofya Raskhodnikova and David Woodruff, Transitive-Closure Spanners,
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), January 2009, New York,
NY, USA.
- Sung-soon
Choi, Kyomin Jung and Jeong Han Kim, Almost Tight Upper Bound for Finding Fourier
Coefficients of Bounded Pseudo-Boolean Functions,
The Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), July 2008, Helsinki,
Finland.
- Kyomin
Jung, Yingdong Lu, Devavrat Shah, Mayank Sharma and Mark S. Squillante, Revisiting Stochastic Loss Networks: Structures and
Algorithms, ACM International Conference on
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), June 2008,
Annapolis, ML, USA.
- Ramakrishna
Gummadi, Kyomin Jung, Devavrat Shah and Ramavarapu Sreenivas, Feasible Rate Allocation in Wireless Networks,
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April
2008, Phoenix AZ, USA.
- Kyomin
Jung and Devavrat Shah, Local Algorithms for Approximate Inference in
Minor-Excluded Graphs, Annual Conference on Neural
Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2007, Vancouver, Canada.
- Kyomin
Jung and Devavrat Shah, Low Delay Scheduling in Wireless Network,
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2007,
Nice, France. Full Version.
- Matthew Andrews, Kyomin Jung and Alexander Stolyar, Stability of the Max-Weight Routing and Scheduling
Protocol in Dynamic Networks and at Critical Loads,
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), June 2007, San Diego, USA.
- Sung-Soon
Choi, Kyomin Jung and Jeong Han Kim, Phase Transition in a Random NK Landscape Model,
ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), June 2005,
Washington DC, USA.
- Sungsu Lim and Kyomin Jung, Tipping Point of Information Spreading
in Random Clustered Networks with Heterogeneous Contact Rates, The
3rd Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet), Mar 2012, Melbourne FL, USA.
- Kyomin Jung, Wooram Heo, and Wei Chen, IRIE: A Scalable Influence Maximization Algorithm in Social Networks,
The 3rd Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet), Mar 2012,
Melbourne FL, USA.
- Hyuna Kim, Seulki Lee, and Kyomin Jung, Analysis
of Tipping Points for Threshold Models on Arbitrary Networks, The 3rd Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet), Mar 2012,
Melbourne FL, USA.
- Yongsub Lim, Kyomin Jung, and Pushmeet Kohli, Constrained Discrete Optimization via Dual Space
Search, NIPS Workshop on
Discrete Optimization on Machine Learning (DISCML) Dec
2011, Granada, Spain.
- Byungkon Kang, Woosang Lim, and
Kyomin Jung, Scalable Kernel k-Means via Centroid
Approximation, NIPS Workshop on Big Learning (BigLearn) Dec 2011, Granada, Spain.
- Kyomin Jung, Boyoung Kim, and
Milan Vojnovic, Parsimonious Algorithms for
Decentralized Ranking in Social Networks, Interdisciplinary
Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks (WIDS) May
2011, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Seulki Lee, Hyuna Kim, and Kyomin Jung , Analysis of Tipping Points in Social Networks
for Diffusion of Innovations, Interdisciplinary
Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks (WIDS) May
2011, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Kyomin
Jung, Devavrat Shah and Jinwoo Shin, Fast and Slim Lifted Markov Chains,
Invited paper to the ALLERTON Conference on Communication, Control and
Computing, September 2007, Monticello IL, USA.
- Kyomin
Jung and Devavrat Shah, Local Approximate Inference Algorithms,
Invited paper to the ALLERTON Conference on Communication, Control and
Computing, September 2007, Monticello IL, USA.
- Kyomin
Jung and Devavrat Shah, Fast Gossip via Non-reversible Random walk,
Invited paper to the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), March 2006,
Punta del Este, Uruguay.
- Kyomin
Jung and Devavrat Shah, On Computationally Bounded Adversarial Capacity,
Invited paper to the Information Theory and Application Workshop (ITA), February 2006, San Diego, USA.
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updated: Apr 17 2012
(since 15 July 2010)