Summary
Chanyoung Park is an associate professor at KAIST with eight years of research and academic experience in data mining, recommender systems, and graph representation learning. After completing a Ph.D. at POSTECH and a postdoc at UIUC focused on unsupervised representation learning in graphs and heterogeneous information networks, he joined KAIST as faculty in 2020 and was promoted to associate professor in 2025. His work bridges theoretical machine learning and practical recommender applications, with industry research internships at Microsoft and NAVER informing a pragmatic approach to scalable systems. He runs the DSAIL lab at KAIST, combining algorithmic innovation with applied research, and is known for translating graph and network representations into real-world recommendation and analytics systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sogang University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Pohang University of Science and Technology
Korean, English, German