Summary
Shin Yoo is a Full Professor of Computer Science at KAIST with a nine-year track record in academia focused on software engineering, software testing, and search-based software engineering using evolutionary computation. He progressed through roles from PhD research at King's College London to lecturer and research positions at UCL before joining KAIST as assistant, associate, and now full professor, blending deep research with sustained teaching. His work emphasizes multi-objective optimisation applied to regression testing and automated test generation, translating theoretical methods into practical testing tools and curricula. Based in South Korea, he combines rigorous academic credentials (PhD and MSc from King's College London, BS from Seoul National University) with prior industry experience developing web applications and providing technical consulting. An experienced researcher and educator, he is known for bridging evolutionary computation techniques with real-world software quality challenges.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Seoul National University
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at King's College London, U. of London
Korean, English