Kevin Kyung Nam
9/24/2009
734-262-6143
ksnam@umich.edu
OBJECTIVES
An experienced doctoral student seeking a researcher/software developer position. Several years of software development projects in JAVA and other programming languages, research experiences in online communities, collective intelligence, social networks, user interfaces, and information distillation and visualization that led to several publications to top conferences.
SKILLS
Programming Languages
- JAVA (+6 years), XML, RDF, SOAP, WSDL, OWL: developed various user interfaces, knowledge distillation tools, information visualization, authoring tools, and natural language processing tools as part of doctoral research some of which led to publications to top conferences
- Perl, Python: developed web crawlers and parsers for mining huge data from online social knowledge building communities for analysis which led to publications to top conferences
- C++, C#, PHP, LISP, Prolog, MySQL, Ruby, XUL, ActionScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc: for several class projects involving Artificial Intelligence topics and for personal needs / projects
- Can and will pick up any language quickly
Toolkits / Development environment
- Eclipse, NetBeans, Prefuse visualization, Processing visualization, Weka Data Mining, Lucene language processing, and other visualization, natural language processing, statistics analysis programs such as SPAA, Statistica, R, various MS Windows, Linux.
Research skills
- Can define a clear research question, construct a viable solution, plan the necessary steps, and work with a group of people in team settings
- Data mining, quantitative and qualitative analysis of large data
- User interaction analysis, interview and survey creation and analysis
- Proven research abilities through publications to top conferences (CHI, UIST, Group)
EXPERIENCE
Co-founder, Developer| Wizzie LLC, Ann Arbor, MI
03/2009 ? Present
Responsible for business planning and development of an online professional medical information community in which dentists and dental hygienists share expertise and knowledge. (Built in Ruby on Rails)
Research assistant | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
05/2005 ? Present
Responsible for conducting several research and software development projects in the area of Human Computer Interaction, information reuse, online knowledge communities, ubiquitous computing and information distillation, and user interfaces (Published to top conferences, publications available upon request)
Intern | IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
05/2005 ? 08/2005
Successfully researching and developing TopicGraph Editor, a graphical authoring tool based on Resource Description Framework descriptions of topics and relations in a domain. Built in JAVA on Eclipse.
Software Quality Tester (contractor) | Texas Instruments Inc. Dallas, TX
11/1999 ? 07/2002
Responsible for software quality testing a number of TI projects including TI-Graph Link™, TI-StudyCards™, TI-CellSheet™, and TI-NoteFolio Converter™ which led to successful releases to the market
Teaching experiences
Graduate Student Instructor for SI 502 Networked Computing, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
Responsible for leading discussion sessions with lectures and tutorials
EDUCATION
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ph.D. candidate in Information Science (expected graduation in 2010)
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Master in Science in Computer Science – 2005
University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor in Science in Computer Science ? 2002
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
MBA Essentials and Entrepreneurship program at Ross Business School – 2009
AWARD
2000 – 2002: Dean’s List recipient
1998 – 2002: Academic Excellence Scholarship from the University of Texas at Dallas
1996 – 1998: Five times University Interscholastic League(UIL) regional Championship in Mathematics and Science
REFERENCE Available upon request
WORK STATUS: U.S. Citizen
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Kevin Kyung Nam
ksnam@umich.edu
OBJECTIVES
Ph.D. candidate in Information Science at the University of Michigan.
EDUCATION
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D. in Information Science (expected in Summer 2010)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, M.S. in Computer Science – 2005
University of Texas at Dallas, B.S. in Computer Science – 2002
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MBA Essentials and Entrepreneurship program at Ross Business School – 2009
EXPERIENCE
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | Research assistant 05/2005 – Present
Conducted research and software development projects in the area of Human Computer Interaction, information reuse, online knowledge communities, ubiquitous computing and information distillation, and user interfaces (Published to top conferences, publications available upon request)
IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne | NY Intern 05/2005 – 08/2005
Successfully researching and developing TopicGraph Editor, a graphical authoring tool based on Resource Description Framework descriptions of topics and relations in a domain. Built in JAVA on Eclipse.
Texas Instruments Inc. Dallas, TX | Software Quality Tester (contractor) 11/1999 – 07/2002
Responsible for software quality testing a number of TI projects including TI-Graph Link™, TI-StudyCards™, TI-CellSheet™, and TI-NoteFolio Converter™ which led to successful releases to the market
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Graduate Student Instructor
Graduate Student Instructor for SI 502 Networked Computing, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
Responsible for leading discussion sessions with lectures and tutorials
SKILLS
Programming Languages
- JAVA (+6 years), XML, RDF, SOAP, WSDL, OWL: developed various user interfaces, knowledge distillation tools, information visualization, authoring tools, and natural language processing tools as part of doctoral research some of which led to publications to top conferences
- Perl, Python: developed web crawlers and parsers for mining huge data from online social knowledge building communities for analysis which led to publications to top conferences
- C++, C#, PHP, LISP, Prolog, MySQL, Ruby, XUL, ActionScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc: for several class projects involving Artificial Intelligence topics and for personal needs / projects
- Can and will pick up any language quickly
Toolkits / Development environment
- Eclipse, NetBeans, Prefuse visualization, Processing visualization, Weka Data Mining, Lucene language processing, and other visualization, natural language processing, statistics analysis programs such as SPSS, Statistica, R, various MS Windows, Linux.
Research skills
- Can define a clear research question, construct a viable solution, plan the necessary steps, and work with a group of people in team settings
- Data mining, quantitative and qualitative analysis of large data
- User interaction analysis, interview and survey creation and analysis, user interfaces development
- Proven research abilities through publications to top conferences (CHI, UIST, Group)
PUBLICATION
Huh, J., Nam, K. K., and Sharma, N. Finding the Lost Treasure: Understanding Reuse of Used Computing Devices. Proceedings of CHI 2010. ACM Press.
Nam, K. K., Mark, S. A., and Adamic, L. Questions in, Knowledge iN? A Study of Naver’s Question Answering Community. Proceedings of CHI 2009. ACM Press.
Nam, K.K. and Ackerman M.S. Arkose: Reusing Informal Information in Online Communities. Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work.
Zhang, J., Ackerman, M.S., Adamic, L. and Nam, K.K. QuME: A Mechanism to Support Expertise Finding in Online Help-seeking Communities, accepted by UIST2007.
Batcheller, A. L., Hilligoss, B., Nam, K., Rader, E., Rey-Babarro, M., & Zhou, X. (2007). Testing the Technology: Playing Games with Video Conferencing. Proceedings of CHI 2007, San Jose, CA.
AWARD
2000 – 2002: Dean’s List recipient
1998 – 2002: Academic Excellence Scholarship from the University of Texas at Dallas
1996 – 1998: Five times University Interscholastic League(UIL) regional Championship in Mathematics and Science
REFERENCE Available upon request
WORK STATUS: U.S. Citizen