Address

Jong C. Park, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Department Head
Computer Science Department, KAIST
335 Gwahangno, Yuseong-gu
Daejon 305-701 Republic of KOREA

Office: +82 42 350 3541
Fax: +82 42 350 5581
Lab: +82 42 350 3581
e-mail: park AT cs.kaist.ac.kr
URL: http://nlp.kaist.ac.kr/~park

Academic
Interests

User Customized Natural Language Information Service: http://ilens.org
Computational Linguistics (grammar-based approaches to language modeling)
Natural Language Processing (human-friendly language interface for augmented communication)
BioNLP (applications of NLP techniques to biology and medicine): http://www.biopathway.org
Robotics (emotionally appropriate communication with artificial beings and intelligent devices)
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Sign Language Animation

Academic
Affiliations

Department of Knowledge Service Engineering, KAIST: Adjunct Professor (2008~present)
Robotics Interdisciplinary Program, KAIST: Affiliate Professor (Steering Committee, 2002~present)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society http://www.sigmaxi.org: Member (1988~)
The Association for Computational Linguistics: Member (1992~)
Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers http://www.kiise.or.kr: Lifetime Member (1998~); Editor (1999~2001,2007); Board Member (2007~2010)
Human-Robot Interaction Research Center: Participating Researcher (2006~present)
Korean Society for Language and Information: Board Member (2005~2006); Editor (2003~present)
Journal of Computing Science and Engineering: (Founding) Editor-in-Chief (2007~), http://jcse.kiise.org
Journal of Biomedical Semantics: Editor (to be published by BioMed Central, link)

Recent
Academic
Activities

PC Member, 24th PACLIC (Tohoku, Japan, 11/2010, link under construction)
PC Member, 4th SMBM (Cambridge, UK, 10/2010, link)
PC Member, 23rd COLING (Beijing, China, 8/2010, link)
PC Member, 23rd ICCPOL (Redwood City, California, USA, 7/2010, link)
PC Member, 2nd Louhi Workshop on Text and Data Mining of Health Documents (LA, USA, 6/2010)
Chair, 9th Korea-Singapore Joint Workshop on Bioinformatics and NLP (Korea, 2/2010, link)
PC Member, 23rd PACLIC (Hong Kong, 12/2009, http://paclic23.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/)
General Chair, 3rd LBM (Korea, 11/2009 http://lbm2009.biopathway.org)
SC Member, BioCreative II.5 (Madrid, Spain, 10/2009 link)
SRC Member, 10th Interspeech (Brighton, U.K, 9/2009 http://www.interspeech2009.org)
Commentator, Student Research Workshop, ACL-IJCNLP (47th-4th, Singapore, 8/2009)
PC Member, Student Research Workshop, ACL-IJCNLP (47th-4th, Singapore, 8/2009)
PC Member, Demo, ACL-IJCNLP (47th-4th, Singapore, 8/2009)
PC Member, ISMB/ECCB (17th/8th, Stockholm, Sweden, 6-7/2009 http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2009/)
Chair, 8th Korea-Singapore Joint Workshop on Bioinformatics and NLP (Korea, 12/2008, link)
PC Member, 22nd PACLIC (Philippine, 11/2008)
SRC Member, 9th Interspeech (Australia, 9/2008)
PC Member, 22nd ICCPOL (Hong Kong, 3/2009)
PC Member, 7th European Conference on Computational Biology (Italy, 9/2008)
PC Member, 21st ISMB (Canada, 8/2008)
Invited Talk, Dagstuhl Seminar on Text Mining and Ontologies for Life Sciences (Germany, 3/2008)
Chair, 7th Korea-Singapore Joint Workshop on Bioinformatics and NLP (Korea, 2/2008, link)
General Chair, 2nd LBM (Singapore, 12/2007, link)
PC Member, 21st PACLIC (Korea, 11/2007)
SRC Member, 8th Interspeech (Belgium, 8/2007)
PC Member, 20th ISMB (Austria, 7/2007)
Invited Talk, Advanced NLP and Text Mining Forum (Japan, 3/2007)
Chair, 5th Korea Singapore Workshop on Bioinformatics and NLP (Korea, 11/2006, link)
Invited Talk, Workshop on Text Mining, Ontologies, and NLP in Biomedicine (UK, 3/2006, link)
(Founding) General Chair, 1st LBM (Korea, 11/2005, link)

Supervised
Theses

Ph.D

MS

Education

Seoul National University, Computer Engineering: BE & MSE
University of Pennsylvania, Computer & Information Science: Ph.D