CV

SUHYEON YOO 

suhyeon.yoo@mail.utoronto.ca
2021 Fulbright Graduate Student Program Award (Declined)

EDUCATION

Sep 2021- Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University Of Toronto 🔗 

Cumulative GPA: 4.14/4.3 (3.93/4.0)  

KCSF (Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation) Award (2023)

OGS (Ontario Graduate Scholarship) Award (2022-2023) 

Wolfond Award (2021-2022)

Coursework: Human-Computer Interaction, Introduction to Machine Learning, Visual and Mobile Computing Systems, 

Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Health, Information visualization, Computational Social Science, 

Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Theories in HCI. 

Mar 2017 - Feb 2021

B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering 

Ewha Womans University 🔗

Cumulative GPA: 4.14/4.3

Summa Cum Laude 

Dean’s List for all semesters

WORKING 

EXPERIENCE

Ph.D. Research Intern (RA) | Samsung AI Centre Toronto

Jun  2022 - Feb 2023

Mobile and Distributed Intelligence Lab

Advisor: Dr. Iqbal Mohomed 🔗

Developed video summarization methods for activity recognition system application. 

RESEARCH 

EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant (RA) | University of Toronto

Sep 2021 - Present

Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP) Lab

Advisor: Prof. Khai Truong 🔗

Working on Accessibility & Mobile Health projects.

• Music accessibility for d/Deaf individuals: Making a song signing more accessible for people who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing (CHI'23). Designing a captioning tool to visualize musical elements. Utilizing LLMs to support lyrics translation. Examining how positionality statements can impact cultural acceptance of contents. 
• Out-of-home accessibility for people with dementia: Providing support for out-of-home activities and incorporating everyday tech to assist individuals with cognitive deficits, especially those with dementia.
• Mindful eating for children: Developing real-time web-based intervention methods to encourage mindful eating behaviour for children.
• Creative workers: Content analysis on pet influencer accounts utilizing computer vision and natural language processing. 
  

Undergraduate Research Intern | Ewha Womans University

Jul 2020 - May 2021

Human-Computer Interaction Lab 🔗

Advisor: Prof. Uran Oh

Participated in research on increasing the accessibility of comics for people with visual 

impairments. Made an ‘Accessible Digital Comics’ web application using AWS Polly and 

SVG files.  (W4A'21, TACCESS'22)

Sep 2019 - June 2020

Distributed Computing and Operating System Lab
Advisor: Prof. Hyokyung Bahn

Led research on scheduling algorithms for real-time and interactive tasks. DVS, HM, and Genetic Algorithm are used to reduce the power of the system. (IIBC ’20, RTCSA ’20, TII ’21, RTSS'21)

Dec 2018 - Feb 2019

Distributed Computing and Operating System Lab

Advisor:  Dr. Kyungwoon Cho, Prof. Hyokyung Bahn

Worked on analyzing simulation program about TBS (Thread Block Scheduling).

Searched rules to reduce execution time in GPU and visualized experimental results.

TEACHING

EXPERIENCE

Winter 2022, Fall 2023 | University of Toronto

Teaching Assistant

Department of Computer Science

Teaching Assistant of Human-Computer Interaction (CSC428/2514)

Teaching Assistant of Topics in Computational Social Science (CSC 2552)

Spring 2020

Peer Instructor (Tutor) | Ewha Womans University

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Tutor of Operating System (20477-01)

Uploaded a 400 min tutoring video and answered students' questions 🔗

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Article

[1] Fan, V., Krosinki, A., Yoo, S., Hwang, A. Truong, K. & Wang, R. (2024). Multiple case study: Exploring the out-of-home experiences with persons with dementia. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 0(0) (Submitted) 

[2] Lee, Y., Joh, H., Yoo, S., & Oh, U. (2022). AccessComics2: Understanding the User

Experience of an Accessible Comic Book Reader for Blind People with Textual Sound Effects. 

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS). 🔗

[3] Yoo, S., Jo, Y., & Bahn, H. (2021). Integrated scheduling of real-time and interactive tasks

for configurable industrial systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18(1), 631

641.  (IF: 9.112), 🔗

[4] Yoo, S., Jo, Y., Cho, K. W., & Bahn, H. (2020). Real-Time Power Saving Scheduling Based

on Genetic Algorithms in Multi-core Hybrid Memory Environments. The Journal of The Institute

of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication, 20(1), 135-140. 🔗

Conference Paper

[1] Yoo, S., Pu, K., & Truong, K. (2024, April). Behind the Pup-ularity Curtain: Understanding Motivations, Challenges, and Work Performed in Creating and Managing Pet Influencer Accounts. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (Submitted)

[2] Yoo, S., Lin, G., Byeon, H., Hwang, A., & Truong, K. (2023, April). Understanding music accessibility through song signing for and with d/Deaf and non-d/Deaf persons. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 🔗

[3] Lee, Y., Joh, H., Yoo, S., & Oh, U. (2021, April). AccessComics: an accessible digital comic

book reader for people with visual impairments. In Proceedings of the 18th International Web

for All Conference (pp. 1-11). 🔗

[4] Jo, Y., Yoo, S., & Bahn, H. (2020, August). Student Session: Power-Saving Integrated Task

Scheduling in Multicore and Hybrid Memory Environment. In 2020 IEEE 26th International

Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA) (pp.

1-2). 🔗

Conference Presentation

[1] [Work already Published] Yoo, S., Jo, Y., & Bahn, H. (2021, December). Integrated

scheduling of real-time and interactive tasks for configurable industrial systems. In 2021 IEEE

Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) 🔗 

VOLUNTEER

EXPERIENCE

July - Aug 2021

Student Volunteer | ASSETS 2021

Reviewed videos: poster+demo session

SCHOLARSHIP

& AWARDS

2023

Scholarship Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation | KCSF

For exemplary Korean post-secondary students in Canada 

2022 - 2023

Ontario Graduate Scholarship  | Province of Ontario

Ontario's ☀️best☀️ graduate students in all disciplines of academic study.

2021 - 2022

Wolfond Fellowship | University of Toronto

For students studying Mobile Computing and HCI.

2021

Faculty of Arts and Science Program-Level Fellowship

For a grad student studying Computer Science.

2020

Fulbright Graduate Student Program Award (Alternate Candidate - Declined) | Fulbright

Grants possible up to 80K for 2 years. 🔗

Spring 2020, Fall 2019

Best Honor Scholarship | Ewha Womans University

For students in 1st place in each major.

Spring 2020

Best Tutor Award (Teaching Excellence Award) | Ewha Womans University

For responsible and sincere tutors.

Spring 2020

Academic Activity Support Scholarship | Ewha Womans University

For students who have demonstrated good research results. 

Fall 2019, Fall 2018

Future Competent Scholarship | Ewha Womans University

For undergraduate research intern who is recommended by the assigned professor.

Spring 2019, Fall 2017

Honor Scholarship | Ewha Womans University

For students who are in the top 4 percent in each college.

Dec 2020

National Portfolio Contest  | Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea  | 3rd Place

Students who represent each region (who passed qualifiers) in Korea 

presented their portfolios.

Nov 2020

Capstone Design Contest | Ewha Womans University | 3rd Place

36 teams were awarded for capstone projects.

Oct 2020

Seoul Portfolio Contest (Qualifier) | Korea University Innovation Center for Engineering Education | 2nd Place

Two representative students from each university in Seoul presented their portfolios. 🔗

 

Jul 2020

Graduation Project Contest | Ewha Womans University  | 4th Place

15 teams did a poster and oral presentation of their graduation project. 🔗

Nov 2018

Linux Programming Contest | Ewha Womans University | 4th Place

50 students were asked to solve 20 problems in 1 hour using C. 🔗

COURSE 

PROJECTS

Fall 2021

PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome) detection | Intro to Machine Learning

Predicted PCOS using the "PCOS dataset" in Kaggle with 

KNN, SVM, AdaBoost, Random Forest, and Neural Net model

Language/Tool: Python

Fall 2020

Face Recognition at MS HoloLens1 | Special Topics in Human-Computer Interaction 

(Graduate Course) Implemented an auto face detection and recognition system

for people with visual impairments. 🔗

Language/Tool: C #, MRTK, Azure Face API

Fall 2020

Integrated Scheduling of Real-time and Interactive Tasks  | Topics in Operating Systems

(Graduate Course) Wrote SCI journal proposing new scheduling policy of integrated tasks.

Language/Tool: Python

Fall 2020

MPI Programming | Cloud Computing

Made a parallel program for calculating the Heat Distribution Problem.  🔗

Language/Tool: C, MPI Library

Fall 2020

Image Super-Resolution | Medical Image Processing

Tested performance of bicubic interpolation-based super-resolution and SRCNN model, 

and tuned own  SRCNN model improving test accuracy (PSNR and SSIM). 🔗

Language/Tool: Python

Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

Real-Time Power-Saving Scheduling | Capstone Design Project A & B

Research conducted about scheduling integrated periodic and aperiodic tasks, using

Genetic algorithm to optimize the voltage of the processor and type of memory. 🔗

Language/Tool: Python 

Spring 2020

G&I Corpus Processing | Artificial Intelligence

Performed POS tagging using Decision Tree algorithm, and relationship analysis 

through Word2Vec for processing G&I corpus. Participated in-

class hackathon to correct PDF-to-text conversion errors (G&I ’20) [pdf]  🔗

Language/Tool: Python, TensorFlow, NLTK 🔗

Spring 2020

Online Bakery Store| Human-Computer Interaction

Designed websites that help users search for specific bread and reserve bread. 🔗

Language/Tool: HTML, CSS / Wix

Fall 2019

Pong Game | Embedded Systems & Lab

Made Pong game that can be played at MSP-EXP432P4111 board (Texas Instruments) 🔗

Language/Tool: C, TI CCS

Fall 2019

Road Watcher OOD (Object-Oriented Design) | SW Engineering

Designed the component of ECU (Electrical Control Unit) of the autonomous cars. 🔗

Wrote up 10 page - requirements document.

Language/Tool: Simulink

Fall 2019

Parking Management System | Computer Network

Designed an IoT system that manages parking in a specific building, using Beacon.  🔗

Language/Tool: Pseudo coded

Spring 2019

Chinese Restaurant Database | Database

Designed a database for 32 Chinese restaurants near Ewha Womans University. 

Requirement specification, ER diagram, R database schema are written.  🔗

Language/Tool: MS SQL

Spring 2019

Calculating Page Fault & Disk r/w | Operating System

Implemented a simulation program that counts page fault and disk read/write 

numbers. 🔗

Language/Tool: C

Spring 2019

Document Scanner | Open SW project

Corrected projective distortions in documents using the OpenCV library 

and own defined function and then transformed into PDF.  🔗 

Language/Tool: C++

Spring 2019

Thanos’s Finger Snap Visualization | Open SW project

Made an Arduino circuit that simulates Thanos’s Finger Snap. Graphics are implemented

with Processing. 

Language/Tool: C++, C, Processing

Fall 2018

Cache Implementation | Computer Architecture

Built a cache simulation program that returns allocation information. 🔗

Language/Tool: C

Spring 2018

Prototyping Bus Mobile App | Software-based Convergence System Design

Designed Bus app that could be used as a bus card, and gives bus transportation info. 🔗

Language/Tool: ProtoPie

SKILLS

Programming

Python (Advanced) / C, C++, Java (Intermediate) / Html, CSS, MIPS, SQL (Basic)

Extracurricular 

Activities

Ewha Hiking Club | Member

Went hiking once a week, outdoor camping during summer vacation.

ON - Sketch (Drawing & Craft Club) | Vice President

Was in charge of club finance management and making a meeting plan.

Met twice a month to make crafts together.

Acoustic Playground (Yonsei & Ewha Acoustic Guitar Club) | Member

Practiced acoustic guitar once a week.

Performed in concert twice.

REFERENCES

Khai Truong

Full Professor of Computer Science

University of Toronto

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~khai/

Phone: +1 (416) 978-4761

Email: khai@cs.toronto.edu

Hyokyung Bahn

Full Professor of Computer Science and Engineering 

Ewha Womans University 

http://home.ewha.ac.kr/~bahn

bahn@ewha.ac.kr          +82-2-3277-2368 

Dongbo Min

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering 

Ewha Womans University

http://cvl.ewha.ac.kr/

dbmin@ewha.ac.kr +82-2-3277-5954

Uran Oh

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering 

Ewha Womans University

http://www.uranoh.com/

uran.oh@ewha.ac.kr +82 2-3277-6896