Hoojung Chung, Ph D. (hoojung.chung(AT)gmail(dot)com)
Experiences
- Technical Product Manager, Naver, Seongnam (2016 – )
- Data Scientist, Cheil Worldwide, Seoul (2014 – 2016)
- Principal Software Engineer, Naver, Seongnam (2011 – 2014)
- Senior Engineer, Yahoo! Korea / Overture Korea, Seoul (2006 – 2011)
- Deputy General Manager, Daumsoft Inc., Seoul (2005 – 2006)
- Associate Research Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul (2004 – 2005)
Projects
- LINE Web Search (2021-)
- NAVER Web Search (2016 – )
- Social Media Analytics (2014 – 2015)
- Query Spelling Correction for Naver Japan Search (2012 – 2013)
- Contextual Analysis Platform Internationalization (2011)
- Federation Search Science for Yahoo! Taiwan and Hong Kong (2009 – 2011)
- Module Ranking Model for Combo Search (2008)
- “Panama Marketplace Design”, Ranking Model for Sponsored Search (2006 – 2007)
- Dialogue Analyzer for Korean (2005 – 2006)
- Dialogue Analyzer for French (2005)
- Question Answering in Restricted Domains, with Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (2004)
- Development of English Rule-based Parser, with Macrogen (2003 )
- Robust parsing for semantic analysis, with ETRI (2000 ~ 2002)
- Automatic syntactic-semantic structure construction through dialogue-based disambiguation, with ETRI (2000)
- Development of Korean sentence generator for filtering fragile passwords with ETRI (1998 ~ 1999)
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from Korea University, Seoul (2004)
- M.S. in Computer Science from Korea University, Seoul (1999)
- B.S. in Computer Science from Korea University, Seoul (1997)
- Royden House, Hong Kong (1992)
Research Interest
- Machine Learned Information Retrieval Models
Activities
- Jury for Data and e-commerce category of Asian Marketing Effectiveness & Strategy Awards (AMES), 2015
- Program Committee for Hangul and Korean Information Processing Conference, 2007
- Program Committee for Hangul and Korean Information Processing Conference, 2006
- Program Committee for Student Research Workshop of Annual Meetings for ACL, 2003
Talks
- Hoojung Chung, “Search and AI Research at NAVER | LINE”, Talk at CIKM Connect at CIKM 2018
- Hoojung Chung “The Current State of Search Technology and Service”, Talk at Research Seminar at National Archives of Korea
- Sang-bum Kim and Hoojung Chung, “Naver: Internet Search Portal to AI Platform Company”, Talk at Sponsor Track at The Web Conference 2018
Part-time Experiences
- Linguistic reviewer for various Adobe products in Korean, such as Adobe Connect (formely Macromedia Breeze), Illustrator14, Photoshop 11CS, Presenter 7.0, and Media Encoder – Localizers.com (2004 – 2008)
- Part time lecturer for Digital Design at Dept. of Computer Science, Korea National Open University (March, 2005)
- Lecturer for Introduction to Multimedia at Graduate Schools of Computer Science and Technology, Korea University (Fall, 2004)
- Lecturer for Voice Signal Processing at Graduate Schools of Computer Science and Technology, Korea University (Spring, 2004)
- Lecturer for Natural Language Processing at Graduate Schools of Information Science, Ewha Womans University (Fall, 2003)
- Lecturer for Information Retrieval System at Dept. of Information Processing, Hansung University (Spring, 2001)
- Lecturer for Object Oriented Programming at Dept. of Computer Science, Sungshin Women’s University (Spring, 2000)
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