CONTACT

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🗺️ Daejeon, South Korea

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👋🏼  Hello there!

I’m Junghoon Kim, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Data Science at KAIST, where I have the great honor of being advised by Prof. Chanyoung Park. I’m actively on research with my talented and enthusiastic colleagues at Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

CV_Junghoon_Kim.pdf

🔥 Research Interests

I am focused on building robust and trustworthy AI systems for complex (e.g., graph-structured) data and applying GNNs to various real-world domains. My main interests include (but are not limited to):

• Anomaly Detection
• Fake News Detection
• AI4Finance

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📜 Selected Publications

Full publication list: Google Scholar

(*: equal contribution)

Revisiting Fake News Detection: Towards Temporality-aware Evaluation by Leveraging Engagement Earliness

Junghoon Kim*, Junmo Lee*, Yeonjun In, Kanghoon Yoon, Chanyoung Park

WSDM 2025 (Oral) - The 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining [paper][code][slides]

Selected as one of the best-ranked papers of WSDM 2025 for a fast-track journal invitation

Class Label-aware Graph Anomaly Detection

Junghoon Kim, Yeonjun In, Kanghoon Yoon, Junmo Lee, Chanyoung Park

CIKM 2023 (Short Paper) - ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management [paper][code]

🎓 Education

2025.02 -

KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

• Ph.D. in Graduate School of Data Science
  • Research Interest: Fake News Detection, Dynamic/Temporal Graphs, AI4Finance
  • Advisor: Prof. Chanyoung Park

2023.02 - 2025.02

KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

• M.S. in Graduate School of Data Science
  • Research Interest: Graph Anomaly Detection, Fake News Detection
  • Advisor: Prof. Chanyoung Park

2018.02 - 2023.02

KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

• B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, School of Computing
  • Double Major

🏆 Honors and Awards

2025

SIGWEB Student Travel Award, WSDM 2025

2025

Song Hyun Prize, KAIST

• Best Graduate Award (Master’s Degree) for excellence in academic performance and leadership

2024

Counter-Disinformation Challenge, KAIST - Institute for Security Convergence

• Excellence Award (2nd Place)

2024

Poster Competition, KAIST

• Excellence Award (2nd Place) in Industrial/Social Problem Solving Session

2021