Professor Jean Young Song Appointed
As of July 1st 2021, Dr. Jean Young Song will join us in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at DGIST.
Professor Jean Young Song received her B.S and M.S degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 2019. After graduation, she worked as a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.
Since 2020, she has served as an Organizing Committee, Program Committee, and Associate Chair of international conferences in HCI field, including ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and ACM C&C.
Her research interests include human-computer interaction, human-AI interaction, crowdsourcing, machine learning datasets, and computer vision. The main goal of her research is to apply HCI methodologies such as crowdsourcing to solve challenging and interesting AI problems. She published over 10 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier international conferences in HCI and AI fields, including ACM CHI and ACM IUI. She has received three best paper honorable mention awards in ACM IUI (2018), ACM CSCW (2019), and ACM AAMAS (2020).
