Steven YooMy name is Steven Yoo, a softwar engineer. I am currentlly working at State Surge and completed my Bachelors from Hanyang University in South Korea. |
Profession
Since the summer of 2008, I have been working for the State Surge as a software engineer. The company provides a free legislative tracking system on the web for both federal and state levels. My current job is to build domain-specific information extractors for government websites to collect legislative data and to develop a monitor for the extractors. In order to provide the legislative tracking system, we aggregate legislative data from official government sources such as THOMAS and present legislative information to users. It helps more citizens to understand the complex changes that occurred in the history of legislation which will eventually contribute to bringing in more public opinion and democratic participation.
Academic Interests
My academic interests lie within the fields of Data Mining and Machine Learning. Among those areas, I am particularly interested in information retrieval and information integration. With the explosive growth of information sources available on the Web, Internet users across the world will continually find trouble when attempting to extract and interpret appropriate information from large database. I am eager to develop more effective methods to weave together a large network of human knowledge so users may experience a lot less problems in accessing and processing information they desire to understand.
Blog
I have a Korean blog at anoia.tistory.com. I write about programming, books and things that inspire me.
Hobby
Martial arts is my hobby; I am drived into martial arts as much as other people are drived into sports. I have tried Hapkido, Kyokushin Karate, Jeet Kune Do Unlimited and Jiu Jitsu. From my limited experiences with those martial arts, my favorite martial arts is JKDU because I like the way they teach and practice; it's very practical.
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