Byung-Won On is a professor in the Department of Software Science and Engineering, Kunsan National University, Gunsan-si, Jeollabuk-do, Korea. He has also been leading the Data Intelligence Lab at the same university. In 2007, he earned his PhD degree in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. He also received his MS degree in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Korea University, Seoul, Korea in 2000. His recent research interests include probability theory and applications, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and reinforcement learning, with a focus on:

Automated essay scoring and creativity assessment
Abstractive/opinion/multimodal summarization
Emotion recognition in conversation
Opinion spam detection, AI-generated text detection
Explainable AI for natural language processing
Memory-guided attention and deep active inference for natural language processing
Quantum computing for Large Language Models

In addition, he is serving in various academic and social activities as:

Program Committee Member in AAAI 2024, EMNLP 2023, CoNLL 2023, ACL 2023, AAAI 2023, EMNLP 2022, HCLT 2022, AAAI 2021, HCLT 2020, SBP-BRiMS 2019, HCLT 2019, SBP-BRiMS 2018, HCLT 2018, SBP-BRiMS 2017, SBP-BRiMS 2016, KDIR 2012, CIKM 2009, DEXA 2009, CIKM 2008, DEXA 2008
Editor in (1) Journal of KIISE , (2) ETRI Journal, (3) Quality & Quantity, and (4) Information Journal
Association Board Member in (1) Korean Association of Data Science, (2) Special Interest Group on Human Language Technology, and (3) Korean Institute of Information Technology
Committee Member in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32
Review Board Member in National Research Foundation (NRF)
Committee Member in Jeollabuk-do Provincial Government - (1) Informatization Committee and (2) Jeonbuk Large Leap Policy Consulation Body

Work Experience

Visiting Scholar, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2024 ~ 2025)
Director, Information & Computer Center, Kunsan National University (2023)
Professor, Department of Software Science and Engineering, Kunsan National University (2022 ~ present)
Associate Professor, Department of Software Science and Engineering, Kunsan National University (2018 ~ 2022)
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Kunsan National University (2014 ~ 2018)
Instructor, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University (2013 ~ 2014)
Research Professor, Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology, Seoul National University (2011 ~ 2014)
Senior Researcher, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010 ~ 2011)
Post-Doc, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University (2009 ~ 2010)
Post-Doc, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia (2008 ~ 2009)
Research Intern, AT&T Labs (2007)
Researcher, Research Center, Gluesys Co., Ltd (2000 ~ 2002)

Book Chapters

Byung-Won On, Hyojeong Kwon, and Yulhee Kwon, A study on the identification of artifact evolution patterns using text mining techniques , Evolution of Artifacts, Seoul National University Press, 2017:312-339
Byung-Won On, Ee-Peng Lim, Jing Jiang, and Loo-Nin Teow, Engagingness and responsiveness behavior models on the Enron email network and its application to email reply order prediction , The Influence of Technology on Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, 2013:227-253

Selected Publications [Full Publications]

Youbin Lee, Deokgi Kim, Byung-Won On, and Ingyu Lee, A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of rare tokens on creative expression using ramBERT, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), Toronto, Canada, July 9-14, 2023
Guoxi Liang, Byung-Won On, Dongwon Jeong, Ali Asghar Heidari, Hyun-Chul Kim, Gyu Sang Choi, Yongchuan Shi, Qinghua Chen, and Huiling Chen, A text GAN framework for creative essay recommendation, Knowledge-Based Systems 232:107501 (2021)
Saima Sadiq, Arif Mehmood, Saleem Ullah, Maqsood Ahmad, Gyu Sang Choi, and Byung-Won On, Aggression detection through deep neural model on twitter, Future Generation Computer Systems 114(1):120-129 (2021)
M. Zeeshan Jhandir, Tenvir Ali, Byung-Won On, Ingyu Lee, and Gyu Sang Choi, Controversy detection in Wikipedia using semantic dissimilarity, Information Sciences 418:581-600 (2017)
Daemin Park, Gi-nam Kim and Byung-Won On, Understanding the network fundamentals of news sources associated with a specific topic , Information Sciences 372:32-52 (2016)
Gyu Sang Choi, Byung-Won On and Ingyu Lee, PB+-Tree: PCM-aware B+-Tree , IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 27(9):2466-2479 (2015)
Byung-Won On, Ingyu Lee and Dongwon Lee, Scalable clustering methods for the name disambiguation problem , Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) 31(1):129-151 (2012)
Byung-Won On, Ee-Peng Lim, Jing Jiang, Amruta Purandare and Loo-Nin Teow, Mining interaction behaviors from information exchange networks , Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Odense, Denmark, August 2010
Amit Goyal, Byung-Won On, Francesco Bonchi and Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, GuruMine: A pattern mining system for discovering leaders and tribes , Proceedings of IEEE 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Shanghai, China, April 2009
Dongwon Lee, Jaewoo Kang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles and Byung-Won On, Are your citations clean? , Communications of the ACM (CACM) 50(12):33-38 (2007)
Byung-Won On and Dongwon Lee, Scalable name disambiguation using multi-level graph partition , Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Minneapolis, MN, USA, April 2007
Byung-Won On, Nick Koudas, Dongwon Lee and Divesh Srivastava, Group linkage , Proceedings of IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007
Byung-Won On, Ergin Elmacioglu, Dongwon Lee, Jaewoo Kang and Jian Pei, Improving grouped-entity resolution using quasi-cliques , Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong, China, December 2006
Byung-Won On, Dongwon Lee, Jaewoo Kang and Prasenjit Mitra, Comparative study of name disambiguation problem using a scalable blocking-based framework , Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Denver, CO, USA, June 2005

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Patents and Software Copyrights

Byung-Won On and Se-jin Jeong, Method of operation of essay classification device and essay classification device performing the same, Korea Patent(No. 10-2722983), October 23, 2024

Byung-Won On and Min-Seong Choi, Method and apparatus of generating training data for sentiment analysis, Korea Patent(No. 10-2348177), January 3, 2022

Byung-Won On and Jeong-Jae Kim, Fake news recognizing method based on deep learning and apparatus of thereof, Korea Patent(No. 10-2333325), November 26, 2021

Byung-Won On, Product evolution mining method and apparatus thereof, Korea Patent(No. 10-2299525), September 1, 2021

Byung-Won On and Jeong-Jae Kim, Information classification method based on deep learning and apparatus thereof, Korea Patent(No. 10-2269737), June 22, 2021

Gyu Sang Choi, Byung-Won On, and Ingyu Lee, Method for hash collision detection based on the sorting unit of the bucket, US Patent(No. 10628487), April 21, 2020

Byung-Won On, Sang-Min Park, Joongwook Ahn, and Sunyoung Oh, Method and apparatus for automating topic model using Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Korea Patent(No. 10-2052823), November 29, 2019

Byung-Won On, Sang-Min Park, Chulwon Na, and Harksoo Kim, KNU domain sentiment lexicon automatic generator, Software Copyright Registration (No. C-2019-013402), Korea Copyright Commission, May 10, 2019

Byung-Won On and Sang-Min Park, Method of mining object reputation and apparatus performing the same, Korea Patent(No. 10-1961012), March 15, 2019 (Transferred to Dr.Song in July 15, 2021)

Su-mok Jung and Byung-Won On, Reversible data concealment method, reversible watermarking method, reversible data concealment device, and reversible watermarking device for pixel value prediction based on spatial locality and surface characteristics, Korea Patent(No. 10-1875401), July 2, 2018

Gyu Sang Choi, Byung-Won On, and Ingyu Lee, Method for hash collision detection that is based on the sorting unit of the bucket, Korea Patent(No. 10-1866697), June 4, 2018

Byung-Won On, Sang-Min Park, and Chulwon Na, KNU Korean sentiment lexicon, Software Copyright Registration (No. C-2018-012645), Korea Copyright Commission, May 14, 2018 [ GitHub]

Gyu Sang Choi, Byung-Won On, and Elkhan Jabarov, Database method for PCM+ tree of non-volatile memory, Korea Patent(No. 10-1861475), May 8, 2018

Byung-Won On, Gyu Sang Choi, and Hyunkwang Shin, Method for analyzing digital content, Korea Patent(No. 10-1851890), April 18, 2018

Gyu Sang Choi, Byung-Won On, and Ingyu Lee, Method and device of heap sorting based on a memory device, US Patent(No. 9,824,033), November 21, 2017

Gyu Sang Choi, Byung-Won On, and Ingyu Lee, Method for hash-join using sorting calculation, and computer program, and storage medium operating thereof, Korea Patent(No. 10-1705444), February 3, 2017

Gyu Sang Choi, Byung-Won On, and Ingyu Lee, Method for heap sorting based on a memory device, Korea Patent(No. 10-1666307), October 7, 2016

Gyu Sang Choi, Byung-Won On, and Ingyu Lee, Database method for B+-tree based on PRAM, Korea Patent(No. 10-1438667), September 1, 2014

Research Grants

PI, Developing artificial intelligence technology for automatic creativity assessment and feedback, NRF of Korea (No. 2022R1A2C1011404)
PI, Developing Korean sentiment analysis techniques for intelligent chatbot, NRF of Korea (No. 2019R1F1A1060752)
PI, Development of a search query model and analysis technology for spatio-temporal IoT data, KISTI (No. K-19-IR-13-03S-1)
PI, Development of public software for survey analysts in the era of big data, NRF of Korea (No. 2016R1A2B1014843)
PI, Developing big data processing algorithms based on next-generation non-volatile memories, NRF of Korea (No. 2013R1A1A1012524)

Awards and Honors

The 32nd Science and Technology Excellence Paper Award, The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, 2022
Citation of Excellence Award, Korea Intelligent Information Systems Society, 2021
Gold Award, College Student Thesis Contest, 2021 Conference on KIIT
2020 Research Achievement Award, College of Industry-Academic Convergence Engineering, Kunsan National University
Gold Award, College Student Thesis Contest, 2020 Conference on KIIT
Best Paper Award, 2020 Conference on KIIT
Best Paper Award, IEEE 9th International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2014)
First Runner-Up Award, Web Service Challenge Competition, IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005)

Teaching

Fall 2023
- Statistics & Probabilities
- Writing
- Python Programming
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