Short Biography

Prof. Song is a professor of Information Science Department of Yonsei University. He was named an Underwood Distinguished Professor of Yonsei University in 2014. He has published more than 200 international conference and journal papers. Prof. Song has research interests in Biomedical Text Mining, Social Media Data Mining, and Big Data Analytics. Prior to Yonsei, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Information Systems Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Information Science from Drexel University, an MS from Indiana University and a BA from Yonsei University in Korea. He is an editorial board member of Scientometrics and Journal of Informetrics, and also serving as an associate editor of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics and Data & Knowledge Engineering.

 

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Education
PhD. School of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University

MS. School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

BA. Department of Library and Information Science, Yonsei University

Work Experience

Associate Dean for University Development Strategies, Yonsei 2018 March - 2020 Feb.

Underwood Distinguished Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Yonsei  2014 - Present

Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Yonsei, 2016 March - President

Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Yonsei  2012 - 2016 February

Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems, NJIT  2011 Fall - 2012 February

Assistant Professor, Department of Information System, NJIT 2006 - 2011 Spring

Senior Software Engineer, Thomson Reuters 1999 - 2006

Awards
2018 Most Influential Paper Award by Korea Intelligent Information System Society

2017 Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award

2017 Excellent Research Achievement Award at Yonsei

2016 Best Research Award at Yonsei

2015 Best Research Award at Yonsei

2014 Best Research Award at Yonsei

2013 Best Paper Award at EDB 13

2012 Excellence in Teaching Award at Yonsei

Advisory Board Member
Open Information Science

Associate Editor
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

Data & Knowledge Engineering

Editorial Board Members
Journal of Informetrics

Scientometrics

Online Journal of Bioinformatics

Journal of Data and Information Science

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics