I am a Ph.D. Candidate under Dr. Chris North and co-advised by Dr. Yalong Yang in the Information Visualizations group at Virginia Tech starting in 2021 Fall and expected to graduate in 2025 Spring.

My research encompasses various topics within VR/AR, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Visualization (VIS). I actively contribute to these communities and regularly publish my work in leading venues.

In addition to my research endeavors, I was a Machine Learning Engineer, where my responsibilities involved investigating and optimizing algorithms for classifying objects from real-world indoor image datasets.

Projects

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ACM CHI 2024

Evaluating Navigation and Comparison Performance of Computational Notebooks on Desktop and in Virtual Reality

ISMAR 2023

Multi-Focus Querying of the Human Genome Information on
Desktop and in Virtual Reality: an Evaluation

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IEEE TVCG 2023

This is the Table I Want!
Interactive Data Transformation on Desktop and in Virtual Reality

There are a lot more fun projects that are ongoing!
Please reach out to me know more! (sungwonin2112@gmail.com)

Work Experience

Graduate Research Assistant
(under Dr. Chris North and Dr. Yalong Yang)

  • Research on data visualizations and human-computer interaction, especially for VR/AR environments.

  • Work Period : Aug 2021 ~ Present.

A.I. Research Engineer

  • Built, trained, and tested a data set for a team of 4 in order to improve the quality of detecting objects from indoor images in the real world.

  • Research on object recognition algorithms such as Yolact, PSPNet, and Mask-RCNN using Tensorflow.

  • Experienced in handling NVDIA’s A.I Infrastructure, NVIDIA DGX A100.

  • Work Period: Aug 2020 ~ Nov 2021.

Student Research Assistant
(under Dr. Demian Cho)

  • Researched information processing in spiking neural networks.

  • Built a statistical data processing pipeline.

  • Work Period: Jan 2018 ~ Nov 2018.

Student Research Assistant
(under Dr. Beth Weinman)

  • Assisting a research project of Dr. Elizabeth Weinman in the Geology department

  • Built a website with that user interface allowing users to find values from the "Hjulstrom curve" that doesn't have an analytic expression.

  • Work Period: Dec 2015 ~ May 2016