Project Computer Science

Taehwan Kim

**** * **** ** #***, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA

Phone: 213-***-****/ Email: ********@***.***

OBJECTIVE

To pursue PhD research in Artificial Intelligence with a focus in Machine Learning

EDUCATION

2007/08-present: University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA

M.S. Candidate in Computer Science

1998/03-2001/01,

2004/03-2006/08: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea

B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2008/01/21-present: Research in Pedagogical Discourse Project, Information Science Institute, USC

Multi-phrase Transformation-Based Learning for Speech Act Classification in On-line

Students Discussions (in preparation)

2008/11/01-2008/12/01: Project in Neural Computation class, CS Department, USC

Implementation and Analysis of Discriminative Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model

2008/10/03: 3rd Annual ISD Graduate Student Symposium, Information Science Institute, USC

Manifold Ways in Gesture Recognition, the Runner-up Best Poster

2007/09/01-2007/12/11: Project in Machine Learning class, CS Department, USC

Empirical Comparison of Gesture Recognition Algorithms using Manifold Approach :

used dimension reduction and machine learning algorithms for gesture recognition

2005/06/25-2005/08/10: Research in the Machine Learning Lab, CSE Department, POSTECH

Focused on Machine Learning: trained a system to analyze speech data in a special case

2004/09/15-2004/12/15: Project in the Machine Learning Lab, CSE Department, POSTECH

Finding a Manifold in Speeches : learned manifolds for speech recognition

WORK EXPERIENCE

2001/02/01-2004/01/31: JC Entertainment and Adamsoft, Seoul, Korea

Researcher in game development

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2005/06: POSTECH Diploma of Honors for Outstanding Students

2005/03: POSTECH Hyogok Scholarship

1999/03-2000/02: Amateur Astronomy Club, President

SKILLS

C/C++, MATLAB, Python, MS Office, MS Visual Studio

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