Dr. Key-Sun Choi

KAIST Computer Science Department

Department Head

335 Gwahangro Yuseong-gu

Daejeon 305-701

Korea

+82-42-350-3501, 3510 Fax

kschoi<at>kaist<dot>ac<dot>kr

Key-Sun Choi’s Short C.V.

Key-Sun Choi is a full professor in computer science department, KAIST.   He founded and directs Semantic Web Research Center (SWRC) and Cognitive Informatics Lab.  Previously he founded and ran Korterm and Bank of Language Resources.  He currently acts as the Department Head for the Computer Science Department. Prior to joining KAIST, he was a researcher in NEC C&C Lab for Machine Translation. He holds bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Seoul National University, and Master and PhD degrees in computer science in KAIST. His areas of expertise are natural language processing, ontology and knowledge engineering, semantic web, intelligent interfaces and knowledge service. Key-Sun is one of founding members of AFNLP  and ISO/TC37/SC4. He serves as the President of AFNLP (2009-2010) and as the vice chair for ISO/TC37 and the secretary of SC4 for language resource management. He was an associate editor of ACM TALIP (2002-2006), and now of IJCPOL and IEICE Trans. Information and Systems. He was a PC co-chair of ISWC2007, Organizing chair of GWC2006, Conference chair of IJCNLP2005, and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. He has received several awards: KAIST Grand Research Award (1998), FIPA Contribution Award (2000), Award from Ministry of Industry for international standardization (2006), and international collaboration award of KAIST (2009). He is now a council member of AAMT, IAMT for machine translation, and a vice president of Infoterm and TermNet for international terminology association, and the President of Eafterm (East-Asia Terminology Association).