[ECE Department] Professor Kyuseok Shim elected to the Board of Directors of ACM SIGKDD—the world’s leading data mining conference—becoming the first Korean to be chosen through a vote of the membership

Professor Kyuseok Shim has been elected to the Board of Directors of ACM SIGKDD—an international academic society that holds the highest authority in the field of data mining—setting yet another milestone for the Korean academic community.

ACM SIGKDD is the academic society most closely watched by data science and data mining researchers worldwide, and its Board of Directors is the core body that plays a central role in running the society. Through the 2025 ACM SIGKDD election, Professor Kyuseok Shim was chosen as one of the board officers—specifically as a Director—on the Executive Committee, which consists of a Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and six Directors. This is the first time someone affiliated with a Korean institution has been elected, and it is regarded as further evidence of the international stature of Korea’s data science community.

Professor Kyuseok Shim is a globally renowned scholar in databases and data mining and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the premier international journal, the VLDB Journal. Committed to expanding global research networks, he has secured the SIGKDD flagship conference (KDD 2026) for Jeju, where he will serve as General Chair, and successfully brought the ACM SIGMOD 2028 conference to Korea as well—both firsts for the country.

This election not only signifies that Korea’s data science research capability has reached a world-class level, but also serves as an important affirmation of Professor Shim’s academic leadership and international credibility.

 

Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=56658
Translated by: Dohyung Kim, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, kimdohyung@snu.ac.kr