Seungwon information page

General Information

Name: Seungwon Yang
Status: Ph.D student, Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Office: Digital Library Research Laboratory, 2030 Torgersen Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Office phone: +1-540-231-3615
Email: seungwon at vt dot edu

Projects

LIKES(Living In the KnowlEdge Society) Project
- Period: Summer 2007 - Summer 2009 (1-year no cost extension has been applied to NSF)
- Regular meeting: Either Mon. at 2:30pm or Thur. at 5pm at conference room in Torg 2030
Curatorial Work and Learning in Virtual Environments
- Period: January 2009 - December 2009
- Notes: I'm participating in this project to build a virtual digital library curriculum module distribution center in relation to the digital library curriculum project.
Collaborative Research: Curriculum Development: Digital Libraries
- Period: 1/1/2006 - 12/31/2009 (NSF approved for 1-year no-cost extension from 1/1/2008-12/31/2009)
- Regular meeting: Mon. 10am-11am at conference room in Torg 2030

MEMEX Project (use of Microsoft SenseCams to help people with Alzheimer's disease)
- Period: 1/1/2006 - 12/31/2006 (Completed)
- Regular meeting: Thur. 3:30pm-5:00pm at Torg 2030

Publications

Journal articles, conference proceedings, workshop papers, encyclopedia articles, etc.

Yang, S. (2009). Thesis Support Information System (TSIS). The 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '09) (Doctoral Consortium), June 15-19, 2009, Austin, TX, USA

Fox, E. A., Lee, S. J., Velacso, J., Marchionini, G., Yang, S. and Murthy, U. (2009). Curatorial Work and Learning in Virtual Environments: A Virtual World Project to Support the NDIIPP Community. First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation in conjunction with JCDL '09, June 19, 2009, Austin, TX, USA

Evans, M., Black, A., Chao, D. and Yang, S. (2008). Kids For Change. Proposal accepted for Division 12 (Education and Technology) at Eastern Educational Research Association (EERA) Conference 2009, Sarasota, FL, February 25-28, 2009. Project summary
Yang, S., Levy, J., Miller, K., Pomerantz, J.P., Oh, S., Wildemuth, B.M., Fox, E.A. (2008). Two approaches to enhance the education for ETDs: Developing educational modules and migrating the ETD Guide into a community wiki. Paper presented at ETD 2008: The 11th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Aberdeen Scotland, June 4-7, 2008. Paper
Edward A. Fox, Christopher Andrews, Weiguo Fan, Jian Jiao, Ananya Kassahun, Szu-Chia Lu, Yifei Ma, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan, Angela Scarpa, Bruce H. Friedman, Steven D. Sheetz, Donald Shoemaker, Venkat Srinivasan, Seungwon Yang, and Laura Boutwelle. A Digital Library for Recovery, Research, and Learning from April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech. Traumatology, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (March 2008).
Srinivasan, V., Yang, S. & Fox, E. A. (2008). Digital Libraries. Article in Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer Berlin.(To be published)
Srinivasan, V., Yang, S. & Fox, E. A. (2008). Digital Library. Article in Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.(To be published)
Yang, S., Wildemuth, B. Kim, S., Murthy, U., Pomerantz, J., Oh, S. & Fox, E. A. (2007). Further Development of a Digital Library Curriculum: Evaluation Approaches and New Tools. The 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec. 10-13, 2007. Published by Springer Berlin, Presentation Slides
Yang, S., Oh, S.,Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B. & Fox, E. A. (2007). Improving Education and Understanding of NDLTD. The 10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-16, 2007. Paper
Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Wildemuth, B. M., Yang, S., and Fox, E. A. 2007. Digital library education in computer science programs. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 18 - 23, 2007). JCDL '07. ACM, New York, NY, 177-178. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1255175.1255208
Yang, S., Fox, E. A., Wildemuth B. M., Pomerantz, J., and Oh, S. Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development for Digital Library Education. The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 27-30, 2006). ICADL '06. Springer Berlin, pp. 61-70, PDF, Presentation slides
Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Yang, S., Fox, E. A., & Wildemuth, B. (2006). The Core: Digital Library Education in Library and Information Science Programs. D-Lib Magazine, 12(11). Article and Supplementary materials
Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B. M., Oh, S., Yang, S., & Fox, E. A. (2006). Briefing: Digital libraries curriculum development. D-Lib Magazine 12(7/8). In Brief
Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B. M., Yang, S., and Fox, E. A. 2006. Curriculum development for digital libraries. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 11 - 15, 2006). JCDL '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 175-184. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1141753.1141787 Presentation slides
Fox, E. A., Wildemuth, B. M., Pomerantz, J., and Yang, S. Digital Library Curriculum Development: Enhancing Education and Comprehension of NDLTD, The 9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2006)Presentation slides
Kim, S., Yang, S. and Fox, E. A. Supply and Demand Analysis in NDLTD Based on Patron Specialty Survey and Contents Statistics, The 9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2006) Paper Presentation slides

Posters, demos and others

Yang, S., Lee, Y. S. and Yoo, H. S.. (2010). The Usage of Referential Communication and Its Motivation on a Shared Drawing Space. The 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '10), Feb. 6-10, 2010, Savannah, GA, USA

Wildemuth, B. M., Pomerantz, J. Oh, S., Yang, S. and Fox, E. A. (2009). The Variety of Ways in Which Instructors Implement a Modular Digital Library Curriculum. The 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '09), June 15-19, 2009, Austin, TX, USA

Wildemuth, B. M., Pomerantz, J. Oh, S., Yang, S. and Fox, E. A. (2009). I-Schools as a Natural Home for Digital Libraries Education. iConference 2009, Feb. 8-11, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC. Poster

Yang, S., Fox, E. A. and Chung, W. (2009). Living In the KnowlEdge Society (LIKES) Initiative and iSchools' Focus on the Information Field. iConference 2009, Feb. 8-11, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC. Poster

Yang, S., Fox, E. A., Wildemuth, B. M., Pomerantz, J. and Oh, S. (2009). Digital Library Educational Module Development and Field-Testing Results from Virginia Tech. Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy @ VT, Feb. 18, 2009, Blacksburg, VA. Poster

Chung, W., Yang, S., Fox, E. A., Zobel, C., Evia, C., Fan, W., Sheetz, S., Beck, R. and Carr, E. The Living In the KnowlEdge Society (LIKES) Community Building Project: Building Collaboration between Computing and Non-Computing Disciplines. Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy @ VT, Feb. 18, 2009, Blacksburg, VA. Poster

Fox, E. A., Zobel, C. and Yang, S. (2008). Sakai LIKES Initiative: Living In the KnowlEdge Society at Sakai Virginia Tech Regional Conference 2008 (panel), Nov. 11-12, 2008, Blacksburg, VA. Presentation Slides

ECVA Conference "New Times, New Pedagogies" (poster presentation), Sep. 12, 2008, Blacksburg, VA.

Murthy, U., Torres, R. d., Fox, E. A., Venkatachalam, L., Yang, S., and Gonçves, M. A. 2008. From concepts to implementation and visualization: tools from a team-based approach to ir. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Singapore, Singapore, July 20 - 24, 2008). SIGIR '08. ACM, New York, NY, 889-889. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390334.1390563

Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B. M., Oh, S., Yang, S., and Fox, E. A. 2008. Evaluation of a curriculum for digital libraries. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Pittsburgh PA, PA, USA, June 16 - 20, 2008). JCDL '08. ACM, New York, NY, 462-462. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378889.1379007

Yang, S., Congleton, B., Luc, G., Perez-Quinones, M. A., and Fox, E. A. 2006. Demonstrating the use of a SenseCam in two domains. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 11 - 15, 2006). JCDL '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 376-376. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1141753.1141872 Demo handout, Minute-madness slides
DL Manifesto summary slides: at DLRL in March 1, 2007

Proposals

Grant proposals, which I have participated in writing

No.	Proposal Title	Date	Status
1	Collaborative Research: II: Computing and Other Disciplines: Curricular Guidelines (NSF) PDF	Submitted in April 28, 2009	Submitted
2	UIMA Project (IBM) PDF	Spring 2006	Awarded
3	MEMEX Project (Microsoft Research) PDF	Fall 2005	Received funding

Teaching Experiences

Faculty Development Institute(FDI) at Virginia Tech

FDI Track E session

Presentation slides

Handouts

Templates for sessions and module

Graduate Level Courses

Undergraduate Level Courses

Conferences and Workshops Attended

The 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '09), June 15-19, 2009, Austin, TX, USA
iConference 2009 , Feb. 8-11, 2009, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.
Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy @ VT (poster presentation), Feb. 18, 2009, Blacksburg, VA.
Sakai Virginia Tech Regional Conference 2008 (panel member), Nov. 11-12, 2008, Blacksburg, VA. Presentation Slides
ECVA Conference "New Times, New Pedagogies" (poster presentation), Sep. 12, 2008, Blacksburg, VA.
The 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL '07), Dec. 10-13, 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam
The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL '06), Nov. 27-30, 2006, Kyoto, Japan
The 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '06), June 11-15, 2006, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
The 9th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) June 7-10, 2006, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Classes

Spring 2010

CS 5114: Theory of Algorithms (Dr. Cliff Shaffer) : Mon/Wed 2:30pm - 3:45pm in McBryde 332

Fall 2009

CS 5704: Software Engineering (Dr. Osman Balci) : Tue/Thur 11:00am - 12:15pm in Torgersen Hall 1030
CS 5764: Information Visualization (Dr. Chris North) : Tue/Thur 3:30pm - 4:45pm in McBryde 126

Spring 2009

STAT 5616: Statistics in Research (Dr. Pang Du): Mon/Wed 4:00pm - 5:10pm in Litton-Reaves

Fall 2008

EDCI 5784: Learning in Social Contexts - CSCL (Dr.Michael A. Evans) : Mon. 7:00pm - 9:50pm in War Memorial Hall 306
ISE 5604: Human Information Processing (Dr.Woodrow W. Winchester) : M/W/F 1:25pm - 2:15pm in Whittemore Hall 546

Spring 2008

CS6724-S08: Distributed Coordinated Behavior : Tue/Thu 2:00pm - 3:15pm in McBryde 332

Fall 2007

CS6604: Data Mining: Mon/Wed 4:00pm - 5:15pm in McBryde 219

Spring 2007

CS5604: Information Retrieval and Storage: Mon/Wed 2:30pm - 3:45pm in McBryde 118

Fall 2006

CS5614: Database Management Systems: Tue/Thr 11:00am ~ 12:15pm in McBryde 322

Spring 2006

CS5984: Pattern Classification / Clustering: Tue/Thr 12:30pm ~ 1:45pm in McBryde 308

CS5734: Computer Supported Cooperative Work; Mon/Wed 2:30pm ~ 3:45pm; McBryde 302

Fall 2005

CS6604: Digital Libraries: Tue/Thr 2:00pm ~ 3:15pm in McB 118

CS4984: Designing Handheld Software/Educational Tasks; Mon/Wed 3:30pm ~ 4:45pm; Pamplin 3010

Laboratory Responsibilities

Network Liaison for dlib.vt.edu domain
Administers some of lab machines located both in the lab and the computing center

Membership Organizations

Upsilon Pi Epsilon: International Honor society for the Computing and Information Disciplines (Since Spring 2009)
Association for Computing Machinery (Since 2005)
Toast Masters International (January-May, 2001)

Community Service

Computer Lab Supervisor (volunteer) at Blacksburg Library, spring 2003

Military Service

Air Force Headquaters (communication team), Republic of Korea, April 1994-October 1996

Education

BS, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, May 2004
Computer Science, Southern Polytechnic and State University, Marietta, GA, Spring 2001-Spring 2002
BS, Electronic Engineering, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Suwon, Korea, Spring 1992-Fall 1993/Spring 1997-Fall 1998

Other activities and interests

Zen (Ja-Jun Gong Bu)
Pa Kua Chang
English pronunciation/writing
Korean Student Association at Virginia Tech
Korean Grad Students at CS@VT

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