
Eunjeong Koh
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at UC San Diego, working on machine learning, affective computing, and interactive multimedia system, advised by Prof. Shlomo Dubnov.
During my Ph.D., I have been very fortunate to intern at Smule (San Francisco CA), Gracenote (Emeryville CA), Qualcomm Technologies (San Diego CA), and Adobe Research (Seattle WA).
Before my Ph.D. study, I was a software engineer at Samsung Electronics, working on an automatic text reply system on Samsung smartwatch and question-answering system on Samsung smart TV, advised by Dr. Jihie Kim.
I got my master’s degree from Seoul National University, working on music information retrieval, advised by Prof. Kyogu Lee, and my bachelor’s degree from Ewha Womans University, working on Human-Computer Interaction research, advised by Prof. Yanghee Nam.
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Education
- Ph.D. Candidate Sep 2016 – Present
Computer Music
Music Department
UC San Diego. CA (advisor: Shlomo Dubnov) - M.S. 2012 – 2014
Digital Contents and Information Studies
Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology
Seoul National University. South Korea (advisor: Kyogu Lee) - B.S. 2008 – 2012
Computer Science and Engineering
Ewha Womans University. South Korea
Employment
- Creative Intelligence Lab Intern Jun - Sep 2020
Adobe Research, Seattle, WA (mentor: Timothy Langlois) - Audio Research Intern Jun - Sep 2019
Qualcomm Technologies, San Diego, CA (mentor: Yinyi Guo) - Audio Research Intern Jun - Sep 2018
Gracenote, Emeryville, CA (mentor: Robert Coover) - Audio Engineering Intern Jun - Sep 2017
Smule, San Francisco, CA (mentor: John Shimmin) - Research Assistant Sep 2016 - Present
Center for Research in Entertainment & Learning (CREL)
UC San Diego, CA (advisor: Shlomo Dubnov) - Software Engineer Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
Software R&D Center
Samsung Electronics, South Korea - Research Assistant Mar 2012 - Feb 2014
Music & Audio Research Group (MARG)
Seoul National University, South Korea (advisor: Kyogu Lee) - Intern Jan - Feb 2013
Music Service Team
Naver Corporation, South Korea
- Intern Jun - Sep 2011
Interactive VR/AR Media Lab
Ewha Womans University (advisor: Yanghee Nam)

Publications
- Comparison and Analysis of Deep Audio Embeddings for Music Emotion Recognition [paper]
Eunjeong Koh & Shlomo Dubnov.
AAAI 2021: AAAI Workshop on Affective Content Analysis 2021 (Best Paper Award). - Incremental Learning Algorithm for Sound Event Detection [paper]
Eunjeong Koh Fatemeh Saki, Yinyi Guo, Cheng-Yu Hung, & Erik Visser.
ICME 2020: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo - Open-set Evolving Acoustic Scene Classification System [paper]
Fatemeh Saki, Yinyi Guo, Cheng-Yu Hung, Laehoon Kim, Manyu Deshpande, Sunkuk Moon, Eunjeong Koh & Erik Visser.
DCASE 2019: Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events. - Mugeetion: Musical Interface Using Facial Gesture and Emotion [paper]
Eunjeong Koh & Shahrokh Yadegari.
ICMC 2018: International Computer Music Conference. - Rethinking Recurrent Latent Variable Model for Music Composition [paper]
Eunjeong Koh, Shlomo Dubnov & Dustin Wright.
IEEE MMSP 2018: International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing. - The Role of Musical Structure in Shaping Listener's Preference [paper]
Eunjeong Koh & Min-ju Kim.
SMPC 2017: Society for Music Perception and Cognition. - From Music to Programming: Designing Method for Introductory Programming Using Musical Metaphor and Auditory Feedback
Eunjeong Ko.
Master’s Thesis, Seoul National University, 2014. - Using Music Notation for Teaching Computer Programming [poster]
Eunjeong Ko & Kyogu Lee.
ICCE 2013: International Conference on Computers in Education. - 한글 터치스크린 키보드를 위한 보컬 포먼트 기반 청각 피드백 연구 [paper]
박용기, 임성흠, 신종규, 허훈, 고은정 & 이교구.
한국 HCI 학회 학술대회.

Patents
- ANSWER MESSAGE RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR, WO2017039355 PCT/KR2016/009796
- Method and apparatus for recommending reply message, WO2016167481 A1 PCT/KR2016/002693
Scholarship
- UC San Diego 7th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Awards [link]
2019
UC San Diego - Google Anita Borg Scholarship [link] [youtube]
2013
Google - Software Maestro Scholarship [link]
2011
Ministry of Knowledge Economy in Korea
Academic Activities
- Teaching Assistant:
UC San Diego
Music 15: Interactive Music for Video Games and Other Media (Winter 2020)
Music 5: Sound in Time (Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020)
Music 7: Music, Media, and Technology (Fall 2019)
Music 172: Computer Music II (Spring 2019)
Music 206: Deep and Shallow (Generative artistic applications of machine learning) (Fall 2018)
- Conference Reviewing:
ICML 2020, ICASSP 2019, ICMC 2019
Art Exhibition & Concert
Over the past decade, I have done various media art exhibitions and concerts as a producer, sound designer, network audio engineer, and software developer. In my undergrad, I sang in the Ewha chorus.

Photo by Michael Dessen
Changing Tides II: A Telematic Translocational ConcertA collaboration production between Seoul Institute of the Arts, UC San Diego and CultureHub NY
February 13th, 2020
[link] [youtube] [video]

Photo by Michael Dessen
Telematics: San Diego, Seoul, NYCInterconnections for Peace: A Telematic Concert
June 8th, 2018
[link]

Photo by Alex Matthews
© 2018 Regents of the University of California
by Eunjeong Koh & Lauren Jones
February 8, 2018
[link] [flickr] [youtube]

Photo by Taiyun Kim
HyperFish Augmented Reality Application ExhibitionIncheon International Digital Media Art Festival (INDAF) 2010
by Eunjeong Koh, Yanghee Nam & Taiyun Kim
September, 2010
[link]

Photo by Hyunjin Suh
Ewha ChorusWinter 2009 Ewha Chorus
Spring 2009 Ewha Chorus
Winter 2008 Ewha Chorus