Speaker
Jihie Kim
Vice President, Samsung Software R&D Center, Korea
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Jihie Kim is a vice president of the Software Center at Samsung Electronics. She was a senior vice president at KT (Korea Telecom) and led diverse data analytics and new business development. She has been the lead and the principal investigator of the Pedagogical Technologies (PedTek) group at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. She is also a Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at USC. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Statistics from Seoul National University, and a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Her current interests include discourse analysis, human-computer interaction, and large-scale analysis of online user activities. At USC, she initiated research on on-line discussion board and assessment of threaded discussions, leading to synergistic work among knowledge base experts, educational psychologists, NLP researchers, and educators. She is the principal investigator of six NSF (National Science Foundation) projects where she developed novel measures for assessing collaborative discussions. She is also a co-PI for an NSF project on alternative reality games. Her team developed and evaluated interactive tools to assist online dialogue in the context of a discussion board. She developed a novel workflow portal that supports efficient assessment of online discussion activities. In order to develop a research community for improving collaborative learning and communication in education, she formed a workshop series on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Based on the workshop results, she edited an IJAIED journal special issue on the topic. Dr. Kim was the general chair of the IUI (Intelligent User Interfaces) conference 2013 and the poster co-chair of the AI in Education conference 2013. She is in the Senior Program Committee of AAAI 2016. She was the publicity chair for the AI in Education conference in 2007. She served as the workshop and tutorial chair of the IUI 2005 conference and as the publicity chair of the IUI Conference in 2003 and 2004. She has been the program committee member of AAAI, AIEd, EDM, IUI, WWW, K-CAP, SocialCom, SocialInformatics, CADUI conferences, and refereed papers for various AI and user interfaces journals and conferences.
Title: Intelligence in IoT
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