Professor
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Sung-Ho Kim Professor Emeritus of Statistics Dept of Mathematical Sciences Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
Office Address :
Dept of Mathematical Sciences1
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Daejoen, 34141, South Korea
Tel: +82-42-350-2737
Fax: +82-42-350-2710
Http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~slki
Education :
B.Sc. (Mathematics), Seoul National University, S. Korea, February 1980
M.S. (Statistics), Seoul National University, S. Korea, February 1982
Ph.D. (Statistics), Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A., December 1989
Professional Experience :
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Mar. 1993 -
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Division of Basic Sciences, Mar. 1993 - Feb. 1997
Associate Professor of Statistics, Division of Basic Sciences, Mar. 1998 - Nov. 1999
Associate/Full Professor of Statistics, Division of Applied Mathematics, Dec. 1999 -
Head, Division of Applied Mathematics, Sep. 2004 - Feb. 2007.
Professor of Statistics, Dept of Math Sciences, Feb. 2007 -
Educational Testing Service, Oct. 1989 - Feb. 1993
Research Scientist, Research Statistics Group, Psychometrics Division, 1989 - 1993.
Chonbuk National University, Sep. 1983 - Aug. 1985
Full-time lecturer of Statistics, Department of Computer Science and Statistics
Professional Memberships:
American Statistical Association, International Statistical Institute, International Association of Science and Technology for Development(IASTED), Korean Mathematical Society, Korean Statistical Society, Korean Educational Assessment Society, Korean Educational Psychology Society
Editorships & Professional Activities:
Selected Professional Activities:
Invited talks:
1. [2001] "Methods for Educational Assessment and Statistics," Choongcheong Fall Conference of the Korean Statistical Society, May 4, 2001, Daejeon, S. Korea.
2. [2002] "Graphical model and its applications," Summer Conference of the Korean Classification Society, June 21, 2002, Seoul, S. Korea.
3. [2004] "How to teach Mathematics to our kids?" EduChosun, Chosun Ilbo, June 5, 2004, Seoul, S. Korea.
4. [2005] "Collapsibility in recursive graphical models of contingency tables," Department of Statistics and Probability, Beijing University, June 21 - 22, 2005, Peking, China.
5. [2005] "Log-linear modelling by using marginal models," International Workshop on Multivariate Systems with Independence Structures, September 7 - 10, 2005, Göthenberg, Sweden.
http://www.math.chalmers.se /~wermuth/workshop2005/wkshp.html
6. [2006] "Conditional Log-Linear Structures for Log-Linear Modelling ," Department of Statistics, Dortmund University. February 14 - 15, 2006. Dortmund, Germany.
7. [2007] ¡°A Method of Combining Decomposable Graphical Models.¡± Department of Statistics and Information, Jeonbuk National University. June 25, 2007. S. Korea.
8. [2007] ¡°Large-scale modelling by using marginal model structures .¡± Department of Applied Statistics, Yonsei University. November 30, 2007. S. Korea.
9. [2008] ¡°Large-scale model structuring by using marginal model structures .¡± National Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NIMS). January 24, 2008. S. Korea.
10. [2008] ¡°Large-scale modelling by combining marginal model structures .¡± Chungcheong chapter, Korean Statistical Society. May 9, 2008. S. Korea.
11. [2008] "Markovian combination of decomposable model structures: MCMoSt," Mathematical Aspects of Graphical Models, London Mathematical Society Durham Symposium, June 30 - July 10, 2008. Durham, UK.
12. [2008] ¡°Markovian combination of decomposable model structures: MCMoSt,¡± Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, UK.
13. [2008] "A note on multivariate autoregressive modelling based on marginal models," International Workshop on Statistical Methods for Longitudinal Studies, Chalmers/Gothenburg University, Sweden.
14. [2008] ¡°Some theories of Markovian combination of model structures of graphical models,¡± Joint Meeting of the 4th World Conference of the IASC and the 6th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. Dec. 5-8, 2008. Yokohama, Japan.
15. [2008] ¡°A note on multivariate autoregressive modelling based on marginal models,¡± Department of Mathematics and Informatics Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Dec. 5, 2008. Chiba, Japan.
16. [2009] ¡°An overview of graphical models.¡± Department of Statistics, Seoul National University. February 23, 2009. S. Korea.
17. [2009] ¡°Regression analysis.¡± Research Center for Natural Sciences and Department of Astronomy, Chungnam National University. April 17, 2009. S. Korea.
18. [2009] Lecture 1: ¡°Collapsibility of graphical models.¡± Lecture 2: ¡°Markovian combination of model structures.¡± Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, October 19-23, 2009. Shanghai, China.
19. [2009] ¡°An overview of graphical models,¡± Symposium ¡°Comparative Sequence Analysis 2009,¡± CAS-MPG Partner Institute and Key Lab for Computational Biology (PICB), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, October 22, 2009. Shanghai, China.
(*): CAS=Chinese Academy of Sciences, MPG= German Max-Planck Society.
20. [2010] ¡°A symphony of uncertainty, probability, and Logic.¡± Department of Mathematics, POSTECH. March 17, 2010. S. Korea.
21. [2010] ¡°A neighborhood method for statistical analysis of fMRI data.¡± National Institute of Mathematical Sciences. July 8, 2010. S. Korea.
22. [2012] ¡°Creativity and Mathematics in the era of Scientific Convolution.¡± KAIST Institute for Gifted. Jan. 7, 2012. S. Korea.
23. [2012] ¡°An overview of Bayesian network models.¡± Research Group of Bayesian Statistics of The Korean Statistical Society, Dong-Guk University, Seoul. April 26, 2012. S. Korea.
Grants and Contracts:
1. Educational Testing Service Grant(USA), ¡°Utility of the rule-space model for influence diagrams,¡± principal investigator(PI), Jul. 1992 - Dec. 1993
2. GRE Board Grant(USA), ¡°Causal modelling of task performance based on GRE-Q test results,¡± PI, Jul. 1992 - Dec. 1994.
3. Korea Research Foundation Grant, ¡°Optimal model selection of regression trees,¡± PI, Sep. 1994 - Aug. 1995.
4. Korea Research Foundation Grant, ¡°An approach to test set construction by applying causal models,¡± PI, Aug. 1996 - Jul. 1997.
5. Korea Research Foundation Grant, ¡°An improvement on estimation for causal models of categorical variables of abilities and task performance,¡± PI, Oct. 1997 - Sep. 1998.
6. Korea Research Foundation Grant, ¡°Development of an item selection method for test-construction by using a relationship structure among abilities,¡± PI, Dec. 1998 - Nov. 1999.
7. Korea Research Foundation Grant, ¡°A statistical theory for combining decomposable graphical structures,¡± PI, Sep. 2000 - Aug. 2001.
8. Korea Research Foundation Grant, ¡°Utilization of partial information in combining conditional log-linear structures,¡± PI, Jun. 2001 - May 2002.
9. Korea Science and Engineering Foundation Grant, ¡°A practical approach for combining decomposable graphical models,¡± PI, Sep. 2001 - Aug. 2002.
10. Korea Science and Engineering Foundation Grant, ¡°Parameter estimation for conditional exponential graphical model,¡± PI, Sep. 2002 - May 2003.
11. Korea Research Foundation Grant, ¡°A comparison of the CG method and the logistic method of parameter estimation for mixed-variable graphical models,¡± PI, Dec. 2002 - Nov. 2003.
12. Korea Research Foundation Grant, ¡°Log-linear modelling by using marginal models,¡± PI, Sep. 2003 - Aug. 2004.
13. Korea Science and Engineering Foundation Grant, ¡°Development of an experimental system for stochastic diagnosis of knowledge states,¡± PI, May 2004 - Feb. 2005.
14. Korea Science and Engineering Foundation Grant, ¡°Development of an experimental system for stochastic diagnosis of knowledge states,¡± PI, May 2004 - Feb. 2005.
15. Korea Science and Engineering Foundation Grant, ¡°Improvement of statistical analysis methods for neuroimage data and its realization,¡± PI, Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2008.
16. KAIST Advanced Research Grant, ¡°Quality information processing and recognition technology and mathematical modeling,¡± PI, Jan. 1, 2006 - Dec. 31, 2007.
17. Korea Science and Engineering Foundation Grant, ¡°A statistical method for knowledgestructure learning from data,¡± PI, May 2007 - Feb. 2008.
18. Korea Foundation for Advancement of Science and Creativity Grant, ¡°A statistical method for learning network model structure by using conditional probability distributions,¡± PI, Jul. 1, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010.
19. Korea Science and Engineering Foundation Grant, ¡°A statistical method of structural learning for causal models of binary variables,¡± PI, Mar. 2008 - Feb. 2009.
20. National Research Foundation of Korea Grant, ¡°Statistical modeling of neuro connectivity by applying model-combination techniques,¡± PI, Sep. 2007 - Aug. 2010.
21. National Research Foundation of Korea Grant, ¡°A statistical method for exploring causal models of binary variables.¡±, PI, Mar. 1, 2008 - Feb. 28, 2009.
22. National Research Foundation of Korea Grant, ¡°A statistical method for large scale modelling for functional neuro-connectivity.¡±, PI, Sep. 1, 2010 - Aug. 31, 2015.
23. Agency for Defense Development Grant, ¡°Quasi-optimal robust state estimation approach to precise target-tracking for multiple sensor guidance and control applications.¡± PI, Sep. 1, 2011 - Dec. 31, 2013.
Courses taught (u: undergraduate, g: graduate, ug: for both):
Recieved a 2007 Teacher Award in The School of Natural Sciences
1. [Calculus] Calculus I & II (u, 1993-2000), Differential Equations and Applications (u, 1994), Applied Mathematical Analysis (u, 1996)
2. [Linear Algebra] Intro. Linear Algebra (2011-2012).
3. [Financial Math] Intro. to Financial Mathematics (ug, 2002-2006),
4. [Statistics] Intro. to Probability and Statistics (ug, 1994-2005; g, 2013), Probability and Artificial Intelligence (ug, 1996-1997), Linear Models (ug, 2000), Advanced Statistics (g, 2001, 2003, 2007-2013), Graphical Models (g, 2003, 2010, 2012), Statistics and Artificial Intelligence (ug, 2003), Statistical Multivariate Analysis (g, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009), Statistical Methods with Computer (ug, 2002-2009).
Past Ph.D. Students :
1. Seong Ho Kim, Nov. 2004.
2. Geon Youp Noh, Feb. 2007.
3. Sang-Jin Lee, June 2009.
4. SeongJun An and Unjeong Park, Co-supervisor, Feb. 2010.
5. Fayyaz Ahmad, Feb. 2011.
6. Harvey Jezlid Rosas Quintero, Co-supervisor, Feb. 2011.
7. Namgil Lee, Feb. 2013.