About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Kookmin University. I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Inha University. In 2023, I served as a visiting scholar at Pennsylvania State University. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Hanyang University in 2024, supervised by Professor Sang-Wook Kim. My research areas include Recommender Systems, Learning-to-Rank, and Multi-Objective Optimization.
Hong-Kyun Bae
Assistant Professor
Experience
Kookmin University
Mar. 2025 – Present
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Hanyang University
Sep. 2024 – Feb. 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher (PI: Prof. Sang-Wook Kim)
Penn State University
Sep. 2023 – Nov. 2023
Visiting Researcher at College of IST (PI: Prof. Dongwon Lee)
Education
Hanyang University
Sep. 2016 – Aug. 2024
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Big Data Science Lab (Advisor: Prof. Sang-Wook Kim)
Thesis: Understanding Domain Characteristics for Effective Learning-to-Rank (LTR) Approaches in Recommender Systems
Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Inha University
Mar. 2009 – Aug. 2016
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Academic Services
Program Committee Member
- AAAI 2026
- IEEE DSAA 2025
- ACM SAC 2025
Conference Reviewer
- SIGIR 2024
- WWW 2024
- SAC 2024
- ICDM 2023–2024
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2024