Simon S. Woo
Tenured Associate Professor
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
swoo @ g.skku.edu
N Center 86401, SKKU, Suwon
Education & Career Highlights
• SKKU Fellowship Professor, 2022 (News)
• Early Tenure Granted, 2024
• Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA
• M.S. Computer Science, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA
• M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), CA
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Washington (UW), Seattle, WA
Research Philosophy
Breaking Boundaries. My mission is to guide students beyond their comfort zones, fostering intellectual growth that transcends technical expertise. I encourage them to embrace diverse perspectives and challenge conventional thinking, cultivating both professional excellence and personal development.
Global Excellence. Our vision extends far beyond institutional or national recognition. I am committed to developing globally competitive scholars who contribute meaningfully to the international research community, establishing themselves as leaders in their fields.
Diversity as Strength. Having experienced two decades as an immigrant and minority scholar, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity and mutual respect. I am dedicated to creating synergistic collaborations between Korean and international students, where different backgrounds and perspectives become catalysts for innovation and growth.
Work Experience
➤ Applied Data Science (데이터사이언스)
• Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University (SBU), Stonybrook, NY, 2017-2019
• Assistant Professor, The State University of New York (SUNY), Korea, 2017-2019
• Member of Technical Staff, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), Pasadena, CA, 2005-2014
• Researcher, Verisign Research Lab, Reston, VA, 2016
• Co-op Intern, Intel Corp, 2001, 2002
Research Interests
• Generative AI Model
• AI Security
• Deepfake Detection and Generation
• Time Series Analysis / Anomaly Detection
• Computer Security (Usable Security, Blockchain, Intrusion/Anomaly Detection)
• Satellite Image Processing, Object Detection, Communications and Protocols
• Data Science
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International Honors and Awards
🏆 2024 - The 28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Best Paper Running-Up Award (2nd Place out of 720 papers)
🏆 2023 - The 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Best Paper Award (AI and Agents) (ACM Archive)
🎓 2023 - Invited for Schloss Dagstuhl (Leibniz Center for Informatics) on 23021 Media Forensics and the Challenge of Big Data
🏆 2021 - PLP 2021: Workshop on Programming Language Processing, Best Paper Award, KDD
🏆 2016 - The 17th World Conference on Information Security Applications (WISA), Best Paper Award
🎓 2003 - Mary Gates Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Professional Services
- KDD Research Track Area Chair
- CIKM Senior PC on Resource/Demo Track
- IJCAI Web Chair
- ACML Area Chair
- ACM CoNext Finance Chair (2017)
- EAI CyDiP Technical Program Committee Chair (2021)
- TIIS Editor (2019-2021)
- IEEE TIFS (2019)
- AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (2020)
- ACM AsiaCCS Workshop on Deepfakes and Cheapfakes (WDC) (2022, 2023, 2024)
- ANSD Workshop at CIKM 2023, Birmingham UK
- AIMM 2024 at ER 2024, Carnegie Mellon University