Kevin Hyekang Joo
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I n t r o d u c t i o n
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, where I am advised by Prof. Mohammad Soleymani. I am also an AI researcher at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT), and I collaborate closely with the groups of Profs. Jonathan Gratch, Maja Matariฤ‡, and Gale Lucas. My research themes are primarily human-centered, and I am particularly interested in Human Communicative Behavior & Affect Analysis using multimodality. My research is supported by the USC Annenberg Fellowship.

I received my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. Over my journey, I am fortunate to have worked with Prof. Fernando De la Torre from the CMU Robotics Institute as a Research Associate, with Prof. David W. Jacobs from the University of Maryland during my Master's, and with Prof. Ngan Le from the University of Arkansas during my research internships. Outside of research, I enjoy playing tennis, reading books, and solving nonograms.

*I am happy to discuss and collaborate with anyone on the relevant research!*

N e w s
  • 10/24: Received the Graduate Student Research Award awarded to select fellowship holders from the University of Southern California
  • 09/24: Received the CURVE Research Fellowship Award from the University of Southern California
  • 08/24: Received the USC Annenberg Fellowship from the University of Southern California
  • 08/24: Started a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Southern California
  • 11/23: A paper [4] accepted at ACM SIGMOD 2024
  • 10/23: An extended abstract accepted at APAN 2023
  • 06/23: A paper [3] accepted at IEEE ICIP 2023 (Oral)
  • 05/23: Started a Research Internship at the MIT Lincoln Lab in Lexington, MA
  • 05/23: Graduated from the University of Maryland with an M.S. in Computer Science, advised by Prof. David W. Jacobs
  • 05/22: Started a Research Internship with Prof. Ngan Le at the University of Arkansas over the summer
  • 02/22: A paper [2] accepted at ACM SIGMOD 2022
  • 10/21: A paper [1] accepted at BMVC 2021 for an oral presentation
  • 08/21: Started an M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, supervised by Prof. David W. Jacobs
  • 07/21: Selected as one of 12 recipients of $10,000 Google Scholars Scholarship in the year of 2021, funded by Google, for my postgraduate studies in Computer Science
  • 06/21: Started a Research Internship with Prof. Leilani Battle at the University of Washington through the NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program
  • 05/21: Graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning Track) and a Minor in Technology Entrepreneurship
  • 06/20: Started a Software Engineering Internship at Amazon Devices (Remote)
  • 06/19: Started a Software Engineering Internship at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Herndon, VA