Mujeen Sung

Mujeen Sung

Assistant Professor of School of Computing
(Language and Data Intelligence Lab.)

Kyung Hee University

Biography

I am an assistant professor at School of Computing, KyungHee University, Republic of Korea. Prior to joining KyungHee University, I served as an applied scientist intern at Amazon Science in New York. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Data Mining and Information Systems Lab in the Computer Science department at Korea University. My research interests include Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning. I am particularly passionate about applying AI technologies to solve real-world challenges, especially in biomedicine and science. Lately, my research has been on knowledge extraction, information retrieval, and question answering.

Interests
  • Deep Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Knowledge Extraction
  • Information Retrieval
  • Question Answering
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2023

    Korea University

  • BS in Computer Science, 2015

    Korea University

Recent Publications

(2024). CookingSense - A Culinary Knowledgebase with Multidisciplinary Assertions. In LREC-COLING 2024.

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(2023). Pre-training Intent-Aware Encoders for Zero- and Few-Shot Intent Classification. In EMNLP 2023.

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(2023). Optimizing Test-Time Query Representations for Dense Retrieval. In Findings of ACL 2023.

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(2022). BERN2 an advanced neural biomedical named entity recognition and normalization tool. In Bioinformatics 2022.

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Kyung Hee University
Assistant Professor
Kyung Hee University
March 2024 – Present Gyeonggi-do
 
 
 
 
 
Korea University
Postdoctoral Researcher
Korea University
October 2023 – February 2024 Seoul
 
 
 
 
 
Amazon Web Service
Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Web Service
June 2023 – September 2023 New York
 
 
 
 
 
Amazon Web Service
Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Web Service
June 2022 – September 2022 New York
 
 
 
 
 
General Electric
Software Engineer
General Electric
May 2018 – January 2015 Gyeonggi-do

Awards

BioNLP
The 1st Prize in the radiology report summarization task
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Naver
PhD Fellowship
BioCreative
The 1st Prize in the full text chemical identification task
News article
Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation
Research Scholarship
BioASQ
The 1st Prize in the Biomedical Semantic QA task
News article

Contact

I am seeking talented and motivated students, including both graduate students and undergraduate interns, to join our lab. If you are interested, please email me.

  • mujeensung@khu.ac.kr
  • 1732 Deogyeong-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
  • Room B6041, Woojungwon Building, Kyung Hee University