Kyusoon Kim

Kyusoon Kim

Assistant Professor in Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Soongsil University

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Academic Appointments

September 2025 - Current
Assistant Professor in Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Soongsil University

Education

September 2020 - August 2025
Ph.D. in Statistics
Seoul National University
Dissertation title: Dimension Reduction and Feature Extraction of Graph-Valued Data
Advisor: Prof. Hee-Seok Oh

March 2014 - February 2020
B.S. in Statistics
Seoul National University

March 2011 - February 2014
Gyeonggi Science High School

Research Experience

February 2020 - July 2020
Research Scientist
Sentience Inc.

September 2019 - February 2020
Participant of Undergraduate Research Internship Program
Seoul National University
Advisor: Prof. Jaeyong Lee

Publications

Published papers

  • Kim, K. and Oh, H.-S. (2025+). Graph frequency-domain factor modeling. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Accepted for Publication. [paper] [code]
  • Kim, K. and Oh, H.-S. (2025). Cross-spectral analysis of bivariate graph signals. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 47(12), 11141-11151. [paper] [code]
  • Kim, K. and Oh, H.-S. (2025). Quantile-based fitting for graph signals. Statistics and Computing, 35(6), 180. [paper] [code]
  • Kim, K.$\dagger$, Oh, S.$\dagger$, Bae, K., and Oh, H.-S. (2025). Prediction of wafer performance: Use of functional outlier detection and regression. IEEE Access, 13, 35298-35308. [paper] [code]
  • Kang, S.$\dagger$, Kim, K.$\dagger$, Kwon, Y.$\dagger$, Park, S.$\dagger$, Park, S.$\dagger$, Shin, H.-Y.$\dagger$, Kim, J. and Oh, H.-S. (2025). Semiparametric approaches for the inference of univariate and multivariate extremes. Extremes, 28(1), 123-148. [paper] [code]
  • Kim, K. and Oh, H.-S. (2024). Network time series forecasting using spectral graph wavelet transform. International Journal of Forecasting, 40(3), 971-984. [paper] [code]
  • Kim, K., Oh, H.-S. and Park, M. (2023). Principal component analysis for river network data: Use of spatiotemporal correlation and heterogeneous covariance structure. Environmetrics, 34(4), e2753. [paper] [code]

Papers under review

  • Kim, K.$\dagger$, Park, S.$\dagger$, Shin, H.-Y.$\dagger$, Choi, J., Ha, J., Kim, J., Kwon, Y., Park, S. and Kang, S. (2025+). Extremal PCA-based synthetic event generation for the inference of extreme precipitation. Under review. [code]
  • Kim, K. and Oh, H.-S. (2025+). Principal component analysis in the graph frequency domain. Under review. [arXiv] [code]
  • Cho, H.$\dagger$, Kim, K.$\dagger$ and Oh, H.-S. (2025+). Statistical graph empirical mode decomposition by graph denoising and boundary treatment. Under review. [code]
  • Shin, H.-Y., Kim, K.$*$, Lee, K. and Oh, H.-S. (2025+). Absolute average and median treatment effects as causal estimands on metric spaces. Under review. [arXiv] [code]

$~~~~~~*$: corresponding author(s), $\dagger$: equal contributions

Grants and Funding

  • New Faculty Research Support (Soongsil University Research Fund), Soongsil University, 2025-2026
    Research Project Title: Statistical analysis of multivariate graph-valued data
    Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

  • Autonomous Core Research Institute Program (Basic Science Research Program), National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Education, 2025-2026
    Research Project Title: Factor modeling for multivariate graph-valued data
    Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)
    Integrative Institute of Basic Sciences (IIBS), Soongsil University

  • Research Subsidies for Ph.D. Candidates (Basic Science Research Program), National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Education, 2024-2025
    Research Project Title: Spectral analysis of graph-valued data
    Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Awards and Honors

  • Scholarship for Next Generation Scholars in Fundamental Science, awarded by Seoul National University, 2021, 2024, 2025

  • 4th Prize in Extreme Value Analysis 2025 Data Competition, 2025

  • 2024 KISS Outstanding Student Paper Awards, awarded by Korean International Statistical Society (KISS), 2024

  • IMS 2024 ICSDS Student Travel Awards, awarded by International Conference on Statistics and Data Science, 2024

  • Best Student Oral Presentation Award (1st Prize) in Korean Statistical Society Conference 2024 Winter, 2024

  • Best Student Oral Presentation Award (3rd Prize) in Korean Statistical Society Conference 2024 Summer, 2024

  • Outstanding Research Talent Fellowship, awarded by BK21 FOUR (Brain Korea 21 Program for Leading Universities & Students), Seoul National University, 2022-2023

  • Best Student Oral Presentation Award (4th Prize) in Korean Statistical Society Conference 2023 Summer, 2023

  • 2nd Prize in Extreme Value Analysis 2023 Data Competition, 2023

  • Best Student Oral Presentation Award (4th Prize) in Korean Statistical Society Conference 2022 Summer, 2022

  • Excellent Teaching Assistant Award (Course Title: The World of Uncertainty and Statistics), awarded by Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University, 2021

  • Scholarship for Graduate Student Instructor, awarded by College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, 2020

  • The National Scholarship for Science and Engineering for all semesters at Seoul National University, awarded by the Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2014-2017, 2019

  • Top 30 teams in NAVER AI Vision Hackathon, 2018

  • Army Chief of Staff Award in Ministry of Defense Start-up Challenge, 2018

  • Dean’s list, 2014-2017

  • Bronze medal in Collegiate Mathematics Competition, 2014

  • Silver medal in Korean Mathematics Olympiad, 2012

Talks and Presentations

  • “Principal component analysis in the graph frequency domain,” November 2024 / August 2025 / October 2025
    Korean Statistical Society Conference 2024 Winter / Joint Statistical Meeting 2025 / Korean Data & Information Science Society Conference 2025 Fall

  • “Quantile-based fitting for graph signals,” June 2024 / July 2024
    Graph Signal Processing Workshop 2024 / Korean Statistical Society Conference 2024 Summer

  • “Network time series forecasting using spectral graph wavelet transform,” August 2023
    Joint Statistical Meeting 2023

  • “Absolute average and median treatment effects as causal estimands on metric spaces,” June 2023
    Korean Statistical Society Conference 2023 Summer

  • “Principal component analysis for river network data: Use of spatio-temporal correlation and heterogeneous covariance structure,” June 2022
    Korean Statistical Society Conference 2022 Summer / Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation 2022 Conference

  • “Geum River network data analysis via weighted PCA,” July 2021
    10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics

Teaching

Teaching (Soongsil University)

  • Multivariate Analysis (2150346901), Fall 2025
  • Quality Control (2150212501), Fall 2025

Teaching Assistant (Seoul National University)

  • Statistical Consulting and Practices (326.517A), Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2025
  • The World of Uncertainty and Statistics (046.003), Fall 2024
  • Theories of Statistics 1 (326.519A), Spring 2024
  • Probability Concept and Applications (326.211), Spring 2021, Spring 2023
  • The World of Uncertainty and Statistics (046.003), Fall 2021
  • Statistical Computing and Lab. (326.212), Fall 2020

Lab Instructor (Statistical Research Institute, Seoul National University)

  • Exploratory Data Analysis / Regression Analysis / Analysis of Variance (A lecture hosted by Statistical Research Inst. of Seoul National University), August 2022, August 2024
  • Regression Analysis / Analysis of Variance (A lecture hosted by Statistical Research Inst. of Seoul National University), February 2023, February 2024
  • Statistical Prediction (A special lecture hosted by Statistical Research Inst. of Seoul National University), February 2022