Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Artificial Intelligence
College of Computing and Informatics
Sungkyunkwan University
Yun-Gyung Cheong is a Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. Her research interests lie in artificial intelligence and natural language processing with a focus on narrative and discourse, interactive storytelling, and applications for social good. She is particularly interested in computational models of stories and characters.
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 (2008-2010).
Research Interests
Narrative and Discourse Generation
Computational Models of Narrative
Interactive Storytelling
Believable Characters
Story Understanding
Agents
User Modeling
Affective Computing
Responsible AI
Ontology
Game AI
Planing
Awards
2026년 인공지능 말평 경진대회. 대상 (문화체육관광부 장관상), 특별상 (NC AI 후원) - 임석범, 김동현, 홍승연, 김용순, 이서윤. [보도 자료]
