Byung Gyu Ahn

Byung Gyu Ahn

ude.uhj.sc@nhab

Ph.D. student
Department of Computer Science
Center of Language and Speech Processing
Johns Hopkins University

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Hi, I am a third-year Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University. I am working on Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, advised by Chris Callison-Burch and Benjamin Van Durme. My current project is WikiTopics, which tries to identify on-going real world events and write a nice summary for each providing links to related Wikipedia pages. It is very pleasant to work with an amazingly capable freshman.

I am working at Microsoft Research with Kristina Toutanova in the summer of 2011! Drop me a line if you are currently staying in the Seattle area.

How to pronounce my name?

'Byung' is read like 'young' with a 'b' sound before it. Read 'Gyu' as if it were 'cue' or 'Q'. Each of these two names corresponds to a Korean alphabet, and they are concatenated to be my first name as a whole.

Education

Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Seoul National Unversity, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Science High School, Seoul, Korea

Professional Experiences

Electronic Arts Seoul Studio, Seoul, Korea
Nexon Corp., Seoul, Korea
Nexon Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Hudson, Co., Ltd., Sapporo, Japan
Korea Information Science Society, Seoul, Korea

Awards

Samsung Scholarship
Doctoral Scholarship
Undergraduate Scholarship
Olympiad Participants Fellowship
Dean’s Honor Roll
University Scholarship
ACM ICPC Asia Regional, Taipei, Taiwan. First Place, 2000
International Olympiad in Informatics in 1998, Setúbal, Portugal, Gold Medal, 1998
Korean Olympiad in Informatics, Seoul, Korea. Gold Prize, 1997