Sungsoo Ray Hong

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Titles and Organizations

Assistant Professor / Tenure-track

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: Research Hall,
Room 433
Phone: 703-993-3565
Email: shong31@gmu.edu 

Biography

Sungsoo Ray Hong is an assistant professor at the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. Hong earned his PhD in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. At George Mason, he directs the Alignment lab (or 'A-lab') where the ultimate aim is to amplify people’s capability of interacting with machine learning (ML) and AI to derive better decisions and job performance on their professional tasks. His research domains include Interactive Data Annotation, steerable Deep Neural Networks, and human-AI collaboration.

Research

  • Data Science
  • Health Informatics
  • Human-Centered Computing

Teaching

  • Machine Learning and Data Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Degrees

  • PhD, Human-Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington
  • MS, Computer Science, Yonsei University