Academic Qualifications

  B.Sc. and M.Sc. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea.
  Ph.D. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea (Supervisor : prof. Sang-Ho Lee)

  Current Positions

  Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow (Research-Only Academic Staff), School of Information Technologies,  University of Sydney
  ARC (Australian Research Council) ARF (Australian Research Fellow), 2008-2012, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney

  Previous Positions

  2006-2008: Senior Lecturer (continuing position), School of IT, University of Sydney.
  2004-2007: Project Leader of VALACON (Visualisation and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks), NICTA (National ICT Australia).
  2001-2005: Lecturer (continuing position), School of IT, University of Sydney.
  2000-2001: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney.
  1999-2000: KOSEF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Newcastle.
  1996-1998: Part-time Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha University, Korea.
  1987-1989: Research assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha University, Korea.
  2005/2007/2008: Visiting researcher, Kyoto University, Japan.
  2003/2007: Visiting researcher, JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Japan.
  2004/2006: Visiting researcher, IPK (Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research), Germany.
  2004: Visiting researcher, University of Victoria, Canada.
  2004: Visiting researcher, University of Lethbridge, Cadana.
  2004: Visiting researcher, Carleton University, Canada.
  1999: Visiting researcher, MPI (Max-Planck-Institut) fur Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany.
  1998/1999: Visiting researcher, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
  1997-1998: Visiting researcher, University of Newcastle, Australia.

  Awards and Prizes

  2006 CORE Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution in the field of Computer Science (for my research contribution in Theory and Practice of Graph Drawing): The prize was awarded to an academic for post-PhD research undertaken within a university or research institution in Australia or New Zealand in the calendar years 2002-2004. The research should include a notable breakthrough or a contribution of particular significance.
  First place, 2006 Graph Drawing Competition (Theory Graph Competition)
  First place, 2006 Graph Drawing Competition (History of the World Cup Competition)
  First place, 2005 Graph Drawing Competition (Evolving Graph Drawing Competition)
  2000 KOFST (The Korean Federation of Science & Technology Societies) Best Science & Technology Paper Award: for the best journal paper of KISS (Korea Information Science Society).

  Fellowships

  2008-2012: ARC (Australian Research Council) ARF (Australian Research Fellow) Fellowship.
  1999-2000: KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
  1998: Ewha University, Ewha Ph.D Overseas Research Scholarship, Supported by 1998.

  Research Grants and Funding

  2008-2012: ARC Discovery Grant, DP0881706: Algorithmics for Interactive 2.5D Graph Drawing, $304,322, A+ (top 30% of successful grants), Sole CI.
  2004-2007: NICTA VALACON (Visualisation and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks) project, Project Leader, $1,500,000.
  2005-2007: ARC Discovery Grant, DP0560045: Topological Approaches for Three Dimensional Graph Drawing, $160,000, first CI.
  2004-2007: ARC Linkage Grant, LP-455334: New Methods for Interactive Visualisation of Large Microarray Data Sets, $70,668, second CI.
  EII (Enterprise Information Infrastructure) ARC Research Network, Task Force on Network Analysis and Visualisation, 2005-2007, $34,000, Main Coordinator.
  2004: Research grant, Visualisation of WebGraphs, School of IT, University of Sydney, sole CI, $10,000.
  2003: SESQUI grant, Visualisation in Bioinformatics, University of Sydney, sole CI, $18,000.

  My Erdos Number: 2

  The Erdos Number Project
  Paul Erdos -> Brendan McKay -> Me