• Work experience
  • September 2020 - Present

    Associate Professor (September 2024 - Present)

    Assistant Professor (September 2020 - August 2024)

    Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Republic of Korea

    Currently, I am leading a Data Mining Research Lab

  • Summer 2017 and Summer 2018

    Research Intern

    IBM Research - Almaden in San Jose, CA, USA

    Participated in projects on adversarial neural networks and relationship classification

  • Summer 2016

    Research Intern

    IBM WATSON in Yorktown Heights/Somers, NY, USA

    Joined a deep learning project for modeling and predicting customer behavior

  • December 2008 - July 2013

    Research Scientist

    Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Worked on network analysis, natural language processing, and human-media interaction

  • Sept 2012 - June 2013

    Technical Editor

    United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)

    Participated in the Destination Tour Information (DTI) Project

  • Education
  • August 2013 - August 2020

    Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Advisor: Jennifer Neville

  • August 2006 - August 2008

    M.S. in Computer Science

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)* in Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Advisor: Sung-Hyon Myaeng

    *Former Information and Communications University (ICU) – merged into KAIST

  • August 2003 - August 2006

    B.S. in Computer Science and IT Business (Minor)

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)* in Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Graduation with Honor – Magna cum laude (Class Rank: 2nd)

    *Former Information and Communications University (ICU) – merged into KAIST

  • Selected Publications
  •           * means the (co-)corresponding authorship of the PI, and + represents equal contribution.

  • 2026
  • Geonhee Han, Heesoo Jung, Hyunju Kang, Hogun Park*, Out-of-Distribution Robust Explainer for Graph Neural Networks, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2026. (Acceptance rate: 18.5%)

  • Seungryeol Baek, Hogun Park*, Edge-induced Subgraph Representation Learning, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2026. (Acceptance rate: 18.5%)

  • Seungryeol Baek, Wooseok Sim, Hogun Park*, Measuring Graph-to-graph Semantic Similarity in Knowledge Graphs: An Empirical Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Embeddings, ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Frontiers in Graph Machine Learning for the Large Model Era (GMLLM), 2026.

  • Woohyun Lee, Hogun Park*, CondPSE: A Polynomial-filtered Structural Encoder with Conditional Modulation for Graphs, ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Frontiers in Graph Machine Learning for the Large Model Era (GMLLM), 2026.

  • Hyeongcheol Park, Jiyoung Seo, Jaewon Mun, Hogun Park, Wonmin Byeon, Sung June Kim, Hyeonsoo Im, JeungSub Lee, Sangpil Kim, M3KG-RAG: Multi-hop Multimodal Knowledge Graph-enhanced Retrieval-augmented Generation, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. arXiv

  • Wooseok Sim, Hogun Park*, Low-pass Personalized Subgraph Federated Recommendation, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026. PDF Code

  • Hyunju Kang+, Woohyun Lee+, Jaewon Kim, Hogun Park*, Judo: A Juxtaposed Domain-oriented Multimodal Reasoner for Industrial Anomaly QA, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026. PDF Code

  • Seo Hyun Kim, Jinbok Park, Do Yeon Koo, Hogun Park*, Il Yong Chun*, SToRM: Supervised Token Reduction for Multi-modal LLMs toward Efficient End-to-end Autonomous Driving, IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2026. arXiv

  • Jeonghoon Kim, Dongwon Jung, Hogun Park*, Conjunctive Query Embedding-based Few-shot Item Recommendation, Neural Networks, 2026. (Impact Factor: 6.3; JCR Rank: Top 10.4%) PDF Code

  • Jieming Zhang, Tai-Myoung Chung, Hogun Park*, A Kinematic-guided Dual-branch Framework for Parkinson’s Disease Assessment in Sit-to-Stand Tasks, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, 2026. (Accepted; Impact Factor: 8.0; JCR Rank: Top 2.5%)

  • Jaehyun Bae, Heesoo Jung, Hogun Park, Harnessing Spatial Dependency for Domain Generalization in Multivariate Time-series Sensor Data, Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 2026. (Impact Factor: 7.5; JCR Rank: Top 6.1%) PDF Code

  • Jongwon Park+, Minku Kang+, Wooseok Sim+, Soyoung Lee+, Hogun Park*, Federated Recommender System with Data Valuation for E-commerce Platform, Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 2026. (Impact Factor: 7.5; JCR Rank: Top 6.1%) arXiv PDF Code

  • 2025
  • Minku Kang, Hogun Park*, Curriculum Guided Personalized Subgraph Federated Learning, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2025. arXiv (with full proofs) PDF Code

  • Hongjun Jeong+, Minji Kim+, Heesoo Jung, Ko Keun Kim*, Hogun Park*, Complex Reasoning in Knowledge Graph Question Answering Through Query Graph Approximation, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL, 2025. PDF Code

  • Heesoo Jung+, Chanyong Kim+, Geonhee Han, Hogun Park*, Harnessing Influence Function in Explaining Graph Neural Networks, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2025. (Acceptance rate: 18.4%) PDF Code

  • Jang-Kyun Kwak, Jaeseong Kim, Riya Dutta, Min-Jae Kim, Minku Kang, Avis Wee Sin Hui, Yunjeong Yu, Jihoon Shin, Hogun Park*, Donghwan Kim*, Sunkook Kim*, AI-Integrated Optoelectronic Platform for Low-Latency Classification of Toxic Industrial Chemicals, Small, Wiley, 2025. (Impact Factor: 12.1; JCR Rank: Top 7.2%) PDF

  • Woohyun Lee, Hogun Park*, Self-supervised Adversarial Purification for Graph Neural Networks, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025. PDF Code

  • Hongjun Jeong, Heesoo Jung, Gayeong Kim, Juann Kim, Ko Keun Kim, Hogun Park*, Enhancing Inductive Numerical Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs with Relation-Aware Relative Numeric Encoding, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2025. arXiv PDF Code

  • Jiwon Jeong, Hyeju Jang*, Hogun Park*, Large Language Models Are Better Logical Fallacy Reasoners with Counterargument, Explanation, and Goal-Aware Prompt Formulation, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL, 2025. arXiv PDF Code

  • Heesoo Jung, Hogun Park*, Balancing Graph Embedding Smoothness in Self-Supervised Learning via Information-Theoretic Decomposition, ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2025. arXiv PDF Code

  • Hyunju Kang+, Geonhee Han+, Yoonjae Jeong, Hogun Park*, AudioGenX: Explainability on Text-to-Audio Generative models, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025. arXiv PDF Code

  • Sangho Lee, Il Yong Chun*, Hogun Park*, MAMS: Model-Agnostic Module Selection Framework for Video Captioning, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025. (Selected for oral presentation (Top 6.1% paper)) arXiv PDF Code

  • Jimyeong Han, Sangpil Kim*, Hogun Park*, MELA: Multi-Event Localization Answering Framework for Video Question Answering, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2025. (Acceptance rate: 23.0%) PDF

  • Jongwon Park+, Heesoo Jung+, Hogun Park*, CIMAGE: Exploiting the Conditional Independence in Masked Graph Auto-encoders, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2025. (Selected for oral presentation (Top 6.5% paper)) arXiv (with full proofs) PDF Code

  • 2024
  • Young-gon Kim+, Hyunju Kang+, Beomki Lee+, Hyeok-Jae Jang, Jong-ho Park, Changhee Ha, Hogun Park*, Jong-Won Kim*, A Spectrum of Nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay Efficiency along the Degree of Mutational Constraint, Communications Biology, Nature Portfolio, 2024. (Impact Factor: 5.2; JCR Rank: Top 11.5%) PDF Code

  • Soonwook Park, Donghoon Lee*, Hogun Park*, Enhancing Knowledge Tracing with Concept Map and Response Disentanglement, Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier, 2024. (Impact Factor: 7.2; JCR Rank: Top 13.5%) arXiv PDF Code

  • Jeonghoon Kim, Heesoo Jung, Hyeju Jang, Hogun Park*, Improving Multi-hop Logical Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs with Context-Aware Query Representation Learning, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL, 2024. PDF Code

  • Hyunju Kang, Geonhee Han, Hogun Park*, UNR-Explainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Unsupervised Node Representation Learning Models, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024. PDF Code

  • Sungjune Kim, Gyusam Chang, Wonseok Roh, Dae-Neung Sohn, Jung-Tae Lee, Hogun Park*, Sangpil Kim*, Self-supervised Multimodal Graph Convolutional Network for Collaborative Filtering, Information Sciences, Elsevier, 2024. (Impact Factor: 8.1; JCR Rank: Top 7.9%) PDF

  • 2023
  • Seongmin Park, Mincheol Yoon, Jae-woong Lee, Hogun Park and Jongwuk Lee, Toward a Better Understanding of Loss Functions for Collaborative Filtering, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2023. arXiv PDF Code

  • Sookyung Kim+, Gayoung Kim+, Ko Keun Kim, Suchan Park, Heesoo Jung, Hogun Park*, Exploiting Relation-aware Attribute Representation Learning in Knowledge Graph Embedding for Numerical Reasoning, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2023. arXiv PDF Dataset and Code Video

  • Hogun Park, Jennifer Neville, Generating Post-hoc Explanations for Skip-gram-based Node Embeddings by Identifying Important Nodes with Bridgeness, Neural Networks, 2023. (Impact Factor: 9.657; JCR Rank: Top 8.1%) arXiv PDF

  • Hogun Park, Aly Megahed, Peifeng Yin, Yuya Ong, Pravar Mahajan, Pei Guo, Incorporating Experts' Judgment into Machine Learning Models, Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 2023. (Impact Factor: 8.665; JCR Rank: Top 8.1%) arXiv PDF Code

  • Heesoo Jung, Sangpil Kim, Hogun Park*, Dual Policy Learning for Aggregation Optimization in Graph Neural Network-based Recommender Systems, ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2023. (Acceptance rate: 19.2%). PDF Code

  • Srinivas Gandla, Changgyun Moon, Seungho Baek, Hogun Park*, Seonkuk Kim*, Laser-induced carbonization for anticounterfeiting tags, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023. (Featured on the cover; Impact Factor: 19.924; JCR Rank in Category (PHYSICS, APPLIED): Top 4.7%) PDF

  • Hogun Park, Providing Post-hoc Explanation for Node Representation Learning Models Through Inductive Conformal Predictions, IEEE Access, 2023. PDF

  • Heesoo Jung+, Soyoung Lee+, Hyeyun Lee+, Jaeseong Kim+, Srinivas Gandla*, Kyung Jae Yoon*, Hogun Park*, Seonkuk Kim*, Stretchable Array sEMG Sensor with Graph Neural Network for Static and Dynamic Gestures Recognition System, npj Flexible Electronics, Springer Nature, 7, 20, 2023. (Impact Factor: 12.019; JCR Rank in Category (EE): Top 3.8%) PDF Code Video

  • 2022
  • Hyunju Kang, Hogun Park, Providing Node-level Local Explanation for node2vec through Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning on Graphs (MLoG) Workshop at ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2022. PDF

  • Before SKKU
  • I Luk Kim, Yunhui Zheng, Hogun Park, Weihang Wang, Wei You, Yousra Aafer, Xiangyu Zhang, Finding Client-side Business Flow Tampering Vulnerabilities, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2020. (Acceptance rate: 20.91%) PDF

  • Hogun Park, Jennifer Neville, Role Equivalence Attention for Label Propagation in Graph Neural Networks, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2020. (Acceptance rate: 21%) PDF

  • Jooho Kim, Hogun Park*, A framework for understanding online group behaviors during a catastrophic event, International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, Volume 51, 2020. (Impact Factor: 8.21; JCR Rank in Category (Information Science): 1/87) PDF BibTeX

  • Hogun Park, Jennifer Neville, Exploiting Interaction Links for Node Classification with Deep Graph Neural Networks, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019. (Acceptance rate: 17.89%) PDF Code BibTeX

  • Hogun Park, Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, Learning Procedures from Text: Codifying How-to Procedures in Deep Neural Networks, ACM Web Conference (WWW) - Cognitive Computing Track, 2018. PDF BibTeX

  • Hogun Park, John Moore, Jennifer Neville, Deep Dynamic Relational Classifiers: Exploiting Dynamic Neighborhoods in Complex Networks, MAISoN Workshop at ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2017. PDF BibTeX

  • Dongmahn Seo, Suhyun Kim, Hogun Park, Heedong Ko, Real-Time Panoramic Video Streaming System with Overlaid Interface Concept for Social Media, Multimedia Systems, Springer, Volume 20, Issue 6, 2014. PDF

  • Hogun Park, Sun-Bum Youn, Geun-Yong Lee, Heedong Ko, Trendy Episode Detection at a Very Short Time Granularity for Intelligent VOD Service, European Interactive TV Conference (EuroITV, now ACM IMX), 2011. PDF

  • Hogun Park, Sun-Bum Youn, Eugene Hong, Changhyeon Lee, Yong-moo Kwon, Heedong Ko, Myon-Woong Park, Young Tae Sohn, Jae Kwan Kim, Sharing of Baseball Event through Social Media, ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR, now ACM ICMR), 2010. PDF

  • Hogun Park, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Gwan Jang, Jong-wook Choi, Sooran Jo, Hyungchul Roh, Interactive Information Seeking Interface for Exploratory Search, Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR, now ACM CHIIR), 2008. PDF PDF (Extended Version, published in ICEIS 2008)

  • Hogun Park, Yoonjung Choi, Yuchul Jung, and Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Supporting Mixed Initiative Human-Robot Interaction: A Script-based Cognitive Architecture Approach, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2008. PDF

  • Yuchul Jung, Hogun Park, Yoonjung Choi, and Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Designing a Cognitive Case-Based Reasoning Framework for Home Service Robots, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2007. PDF

  • Yuchul Jung, Hogun Park, and Sung-Hyon Myaeng, A Hybrid Mood Classification Approach for Blog Text, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), 2006. (Acceptance rate: 28.8%) PDF

  • Academic Service
  • Program Committee / Reviewer

    KDD (2022 – 2026), WWW (2021 – 2026), WSDM (2023 – 2026), CIKM (2025)
    ACL ARR (2024 – 2026), NeurIPS (2024 – 2025), IJCAI (2024 – 2026)
    AAAI (2020 – 2021, 2026), ICML (2025), ICLR (2025 – 2026)
    IEEE TNNLS (2021 – 2025)

  • Task Force

    IEEE Task Force on Learning for Graphs (2025 – Present)

  • Advisory & Committee Roles

    Advisory Professor, Bank of Korea (2024 – Present)
    AI Technology Advisory Committee, POSCO Holdings (2022 – 2023)
    Advisory Member, Association of Korean Marketplace Landing (2023 – Present)
    Committee Member, Software Business Task Deliberation Committee, Suwon Municipal Government (2025 – Present)

  • Contact
  • Address

    2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu

    Office 27310A, Engineering Building 2

    Suwon, Republic of Korea,16419

    Email

    hogunpark .at. skku .dot. edu


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