Seungwon Yang is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where he also received his B.S. degree. As a member of the Digital Library Research Laboratory under the supervision of his advisor Dr. Edward A. Fox, he explores and investigates areas of topic identification, natural language processing, ontology engineering, and machine learning applied to Web archiving and social media analysis. Other interests include a digital library curriculum development and Visual Analytics.

Currently he is working on topic identification approaches and domain ontology developments as part of his doctoral study, which has connection to his funded project the Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network. He has been participating in various multi-disciplinary projects (please visit Projects link on top) involving researchers from Sociology, Library and Information Sciences, Accounting and Information Systems, Learning Sciences, etc. He values the benefits of, and enjoys the synergies from those collaborative projects. For leisure time activities, he likes to do exercises and practice zen.