Mi Jung Park · CV summary
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of British Columbia.
Education
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2013.
- MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010.
- BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, 2003.
Appointments
- Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Department of Computer Science, 2021–present.
- Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark, 2023–2024.
- Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and University of Tübingen, 2017–2021.
- Postdoctoral researcher, University of Amsterdam, 2015–2017.
- Postdoctoral researcher, Gatsby Unit, University College London, 2014–2015.
- Research Scientist Intern, Amazon, 2013.
- Avionics Engineer, Korea Air, 2004-06.
Research interests
Privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private synthetic data generation, privacy-preserving data analysis, privacy and interpretability trade-offs, Bayesian learning, neural network compression, neural data analysis, and safety in foundation models.
Selected awards and distinctions
- Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Amii, 2021.
- ICLR 2026 oral presentation.
- AISTATS 2016 oral presentation.
- NeurIPS 2011 spotlight presentation.
Professional service
- Area Chair, ICML(2018–ongoing), ICLR (2023–ongoing), NeurIPS (2026-ongoing), AISTATS (2018–2020).
- Reviewer for JMLR, NeurIPS, AISTATS, and ICML (2011 - 2017)
- Organizer for Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS Tuebingen) 2020.
- Organizer for Privacy workshops at ICML 2018, NeurIPS 2019-21