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Jongwuk Lee

Sungkyunkwan University · Computer Science

About the Lab

Professor Jongwuk Lee's research lab specializes in scalable data management and intelligent information retrieval, with a focus on large-scale data analytics, recommendation systems, and efficient query processing. The lab develops advanced algorithms and frameworks for skyline queries, top-k retrieval, and hybrid clustering to address challenges in multi-criteria decision making, user personalization, and result summarization in high-dimensional and sparse data environments. Key research directions include optimizing query efficiency through intelligent indexing, leveraging user behavior patterns, and improving recommendation accuracy via novel data injection and perception-aware clustering techniques. The lab bridges theoretical algorithm design with real-world applications in e-commerce, search engines, and data-intensive systems.

skyline queriestop-k queriesrecommendation systemsdata clusteringquery optimization

Research Overview

Papers
144
Total Citations
1,126
Papers (5y)
83
Primary Field
Computer Science

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
83total
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Citations per year (5y)
255total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|90 citations·2016
Improving the accuracy of top-N recommendation using a preference model
Jongwuk Lee, Dongwon Lee, Yeon-Chang Lee, Wonseok Hwang, Sang‐Wook Kim
SJR Q1Information Sciences
Information SystemsComputer Science
2
Article|88 citations·2008
Personalized top-k skyline queries in high-dimensional space
Jongwuk Lee, Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang
SJR Q1Information Systems
Signal ProcessingComputer Science
3
Article|59 citations·2013
Scalable skyline computation using a balanced pivot selection technique
Jongwuk Lee, Seung-won Hwang
SJR Q1Information Systems
Signal ProcessingComputer Science
4
Article|53 citations·2010
BSkyTree
Jongwuk Lee, Seung-won Hwang

Skyline queries have gained a lot of attention for multi-criteria analysis in large-scale datasets. While existing skyline algorithms have focused mostly on exploiting data dominance to achieve efficiency, we propose that data incomparability should be treated as another key factor in optimizing skyline computation. Specifically, to optimize both factors, we first identify common modules shared by existing non-index skyline algorithms, and then analyze them to develop a cost model to guide a bal

Signal ProcessingComputer Science
5
Article|40 citations·2017
Injection: Toward Effective Collaborative Filtering Using Uninteresting Items
Jongwuk Lee, Wonseok Hwang, Juan Parc, Youngnam Lee, Sang‐Wook Kim, Dongwon Lee
SJR Q1IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

We develop a novel framework, named as <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$l$</tex-math></inline-formula> -injection, to address the sparsity problem of recommender systems. By carefully injecting low values to a selected set of unrated user-item pairs in a user-item matrix, we demonstrate that top- <i>N</i> recommendation accuracies of various collaborative filtering (CF) techniques can be significantly and consistently improved. We first adopt the notion of <i>pre-use preferences</i> o

Information SystemsComputer Science
6
Article|39 citations·2016
Optimizing skyline queries over incomplete data
Jongwuk Lee, Hyeonseung Im, Gae-won You
SJR Q1Information Sciences
Signal ProcessingComputer Science
7
Article|36 citations·2013
Toward efficient multidimensional subspace skyline computation
Jongwuk Lee, Seung-won Hwang
SJR Q1The VLDB Journal
Signal ProcessingComputer Science
8
Book Chapter|29 citations·2007
Telescope: Zooming to Interesting Skylines
Jongwuk Lee, Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang
SJR Q2Lecture notes in computer science
Signal ProcessingComputer Science
9
Article|24 citations·2021
Distilling from professors: Enhancing the knowledge distillation of teachers
Duhyeon Bang, Jongwuk Lee, Hyunjung Shim
SJR Q1Information Sciences
EducationSocial Sciences
10
Article|21 citations·2012
Interactive skyline queries
Jongwuk Lee, Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang, Joachim Selke, Wolf‐Tilo Balke
SJR Q1Information Sciences
Signal ProcessingComputer Science
11
Article|21 citations·2017
CrowdK: Answering top- k queries with crowdsourcing
Jongwuk Lee, Dongwon Lee, Seung-won Hwang
SJR Q1Information Sciences
Computer Science ApplicationsComputer Science
12
Article|21 citations·2010
Navigation system for product search
Jongwuk Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong Wen

We demonstrate Product EntityCube, a product recommendation and navigation system. While the unprecedented scale of a product search portal enables to satisfy users with diverse needs, this scale also complicates product recommendation. Specifically, our target application poses a unique challenge of overcoming insufficient user profiles and feedbacks. To address this problem, we organize query results into clusters representing different user perceptions of similarity, and provide a navigationa

Information SystemsComputer Science
13
Article|18 citations·2010
QSkycube
Jongwuk Lee, Seung-won Hwang
SJR Q1Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Skyline queries have gained considerable attention for multi-criteria analysis of large-scale datasets. However, the skyline queries are known to return too many results for high-dimensional data. To address this problem, a skycube is introduced to efficiently provide users with multiple skylines with different strengths. For efficient skycube construction, state-of-the-art algorithms amortized redundant computation among subspace skylines , or cuboids , either (1) in a bottom-up fashion with th

Signal ProcessingComputer Science
14
Article|16 citations·2019
CrowdStart: Warming up cold-start items using crowdsourcing
Dong-Gyun Hong, Yeon-Chang Lee, Jongwuk Lee, Sang‐Wook Kim
SJR Q1Expert Systems with ApplicationsOA
Information SystemsComputer Science
15
Article|15 citations·2023
CoMix: Collaborative filtering with mixup for implicit datasets
Jaewan Moon, Yoonki Jeong, Dong‐Kyu Chae, Jaeho Choi, Hyunjung Shim, Jongwuk Lee
SJR Q1Information Sciences
Information SystemsComputer Science

Research Areas

Information SystemsArtificial IntelligenceSignal ProcessingComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science ApplicationsManagement Science and Operations Research

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