I was invited to give a short talk at the 8-th SW Welcomes Girls event recently. it’s not often (in fact it’s almost never) that i’m invited to (and have accepted to) give a talk on a non-scientific topic. this event, however, i couldn’t say no to.. you can watch the whole event (1.5hr long) at SW WELCOMES GIRLS 8TH – YouTube, and i’m sharing the script i used to record my talk below. sorry it’s in Korean, and it’s way too long for me to translate it myself: 안녕하세요? 이런 좋은 행사에 초대해주셔서 감사합니다. 일단 간단히 제 소개부터 하겠습니다.
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Supporting female researchers and researchers from under-represented groups, together with CIFAR
if i had to pick organizations that have impacted my current career path most, CIFAR would be very near (if not at) the top of this list. there are a few reasons behind this. first, CIFAR started a program named “Neural Computation & Adaptive Perception” (NCAP) in 2004, supporting research in artificial neural networks, which has become a dominant paradigm in machine learning as well as more broadly artificial intelligence and all adjacent areas, including natural language processing and computer vision. i started my graduate study in 2009 with focus on restricted Boltzmann machines and graduated in 2014 with a
Ho-Am Prize & Lim Mi-Sook Scholarship (임미숙 장학금) at KAIST
NOTE: this post is the third part of the three-post series. see here to learn about the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering I just was just awarded with. Ho-Am Prize & Scholarship for Macademia at Aalto University Ho-Am Prize & 백규고전학술상 (Baek-Gyu Scholarly Award for Classics) Ho-Am Prize & Lim Mi-Sook Scholarhip (임미숙 장학금) at KAIST Lim Mi-Sook Scholarship 임미숙 장학금 i graduated from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) with the Bachelor in Science (B.Sc.) degree. i majored in computer science which is the subject i’ve never left so far, having become a professor of computer science (and
Ho-Am Prize & 백규고전학술상 (Baek-Gyu Award)
NOTE: this post is the second part of the three-post series. see here to learn about the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering I just was just awarded with. Ho-Am Prize & Scholarship for Macademia at Aalto University Ho-Am Prize & 백규고전학술상 (Baek-Gyu Scholarly Award for Classics) Ho-Am Prize & Lim Mi-Sook Scholarship (임미숙 장학금) at KAIST My Father and Korean Classical Literature and Art i’ve rarely mentioned my father in this blog without any particular reason, but perhaps it’s a good time to talk about him briefly in this post. his name is Kyu-Ick Cho (조규익),and he’s a professor of Korean
Ho-Am Prize & Scholarship for Macadamia at Aalto University
Update June 2 2021: click here for my acceptance speech (in Korean only) Note: This is the first in a series of up to three posts related to the Ho-Am Prize I was awarded this year. Ho-Am Prize & Scholarship for Macademia at Aalto University Ho-Am Prize & 백규고전학술상 (Baek-Gyu Scholarly Award for Classics) Ho-Am Prize & Lim Mi-Sook Scholarship (임미숙 장학금) at KAIST Ho-Am Prize What an honour it has been to be a recipient of the Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Engineering this year (2021)! The Ho-Am Prize is one of the biggest and perhaps most recognized awards in