Faculty

Seungbae Kim

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Assistant Professor

ENB 311 | 813-396-2881

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Biography

Seungbae Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing at the University of South Florida. He directs the Connected Social Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). His research develops generative, graph-based, and multimodal AI methods for healthcare, mental health, public safety, and other socially impactful applications. Before joining USF, he was a postdoctoral researcher in UCLA's Computational Media Lab. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, where he was a member of the Scalable Analytics Institute.

Research Interests

  • Fairness, bias mitigation, and responsible machine learning
  • Generative AI and privacy-preserving synthetic data
  • Graph neural networks and graph representation learning
  • Data mining for social systems, online platforms, and public safety
  • Healthcare AI, clinical data synthesis, and digital health
  • AI for social good, mental health, and communication sciences
  • Multimodal representation learning across tabular, text, audio, image, and video data

Teaching Interests

  • Graph neural networks
  • Applied data science
  • Social network analysis and data mining
  • Algorithms
  • Computer networks
  • Introduction to computer science II
  • Introduction to digital systems

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
  • M.S., Computer Science, Seoul National University, 2011
  • B.S., Computer Science, Chung-Ang University, 2009

Honors and Awards

  • The Samueli Deans Fellowship, Samueli School Of Engineering, UCLA (2021)
  • The Balu and Mohini Balakrishnan Endowed Fellowship, Computer Science Department, UCLA, (2020)
  • Nominated for the outstanding TA award, Computer Science Department, UCLA (2019)
  • Scholarships for outstanding students in Computer Science and Engineering Department, Chung-Ang University, (2004 - 2008)

Key Activities

  • Technical Program Committee:
  • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • The Web Conference
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
  • International Conference on Smart Education, Health and ICT
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems
  • Organizing Committee:
  • Web Chair, the 19th International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)
  • Reviewer:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Journal of Telematics and Informatics
  • Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services