YOONSUCK CHOE

Associate Professor

Email: choe@tamu.edu
Phone: 979-845-5466
Office: HRBB 322B
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/choe

Ph.D. Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
M.A. Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
B.S. Computer Science, Yonsei University, 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Brain Networks Lab, Neural Intelligence Lab, Multi-scale modeling of mouse brain networks project, Topographica cortical map simulator project

AWARDS

Best Student Paper Award IEEE CIMSVP 2009

Best Scientific Paper Award ICPR 2008

Big 12 Faculty Fellowship, 2006

Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2004

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2007-present

Member, Graduate Faculty, School of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M Health Science Center, June 2011-present

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2001-2007

Intern, Exploratory Research and Development Group, Advanced Technology Division, HNC Inc. San Diego, 1999

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES

Neural Information Processing — Letters and Reviews (2002—)

Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011).

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2004).

IEEE Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS 2004, 2006).

Post-IJCNN Workshop on Bio-Inspired Models and Hardware (BIMH 2005).

Post-IJCNN Workshop on Neurodynamics and Intentional Dynamic Systems (IDS 2005, panelist).

International Symposium on Artificial Brain with Emotion and Learning (ISABEL 2006).

National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007).

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008, 2009).

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2011, award chair).

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Neural Networks

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Biological Cybernetics

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Neuroinformatics

Connection Science

IEEE: 2006—

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2000—

International Neural Networks Society (INNS): 2001—

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 2001—

Cognitive Science Society: 2002, 2004

Society for Neuroscience: 2004—

Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association: 2006— (president, 2010)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Yoonsuck Choe, David Mayerich, Jaerock Kwon, Daniel E. Miller, Ji Ryang Chung, Chul Sung, John Keyser, and Louise C. Abbott, "Knife-Edge Scanning Microscopy for Connectomics Research," In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Piscataway, NJ, 2011. IEEE Press. In press.

Timothy A. Mann and Yoonsuck Choe, "Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning Through Targeted Exploration," In Proceedigs of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011.

Timothy A. Mann and Yoonsuck Choe, "Prenatal to Postnatal Transfer of Motor Skills Through Motor-Compatible Sensory Representations," In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Development and Learning, pp. 185-190, 2010.

Jaerock Kwon and Yoonsuck Choe. “Facilitating Neural Dynamics for Delay Compensation: A Road to Predictive Neural Dynamics?,” Neural Networks, 22:267-276, 2009.

Choonseog Park, Yoon H. Bai, and Yoonsuck Choe, “Tactile or Visual?: Stimulus Characteristics Determine Receptive Field Type in a Self-Organizing Map Model of Cortical Development,” In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing, pp. 6-13, 2009. Best Student Paper Award.

Yoon H. Bai, Choonseog Park, and Yoonsuck Choe, “Relative Advantage of Touch Over Vision in the Exploration of Texture,” In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 1-4, 10.1109/ICPR.2008.4760961, 2008. Best Scientific Paper Award.