Yun-Gyung Cheong, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
College of Computing
Department of Artificial Intelligence
27302A, Engineering Building II
Sungkyunkwan University
Suwon, South Korea
aimecca@skku.edu
+82-31-299-4393

Yun-Gyung Cheong is an Associate Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. Her research interests lie in artificial intelligence with emphasis on its use in discourse planning for narrative, text, and games. She is working on natural language techniques and interactive storytelling techniques on various platforms including 3D animation, VR, and games. She is interested in computational models of stories and text modeling.

Yun-Gyung Cheong received the B.S. degree in 1996 and the M.S. degree in 1998 in information engineering from Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). In 2007, she received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. Before joining SKKU, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen (2010-2014) and a researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (2007-2010).

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing (NLP)Computational IntelligenceInteractive Storytelling
Narrative and Discourse GenerationGame AIData Modeling
User ModelingComputational Models of NarrativeSerious Games
RobotsText MiningPlaning
Symbolic AI  

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