Full-time lecturer of Computer Science at the Korea Military Academy from 2004 to 2007
Founder and director of the Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory at Emory University
Developed many state-of-the-art NLP models and made them publicly available in the NLP Toolkit called ELIT
Led the Character Mining project and introduced novel machine comprehension tasks for explicit and implicit understanding in multiparty dialogue
Collaborated with several medical fields to develop innovative Biomedical NLP models
Latest research focuses on building the conversational AI-based chatbot called Emora
Background
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Quantitative Theory and Methods, and Linguistics. Research interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP), Biomedical NLP models, etc.
Miscellany
Teaches courses including Data Structures and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, etc.