Portrait of Taeri Kim

Taeri Kim (김태리)

Assistant Professor · Division of Computer Engineering · Hansung University

Room 331, Research Building, Hansung University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 02876 taerik@hansung.ac.kr Google Scholar
Last Updated: May 16, 2026

Research Interests

Recommender Systems Graph-based Learning Multimodal Learning Deep Learning Data Mining Artificial Intelligence (AI) Medical AI

Publications (* indicates equal contribution as co-first authors)

Conference Papers

{Hojung Shin*, Taeri Kim*}, Jebum Choi, Hyunjoon Kim, and Sang-Wook Kim, “RaceMED: A Race-Aware Approach to Accurate and Fair Medication Recommendation,” In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) V.2, pp., Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, Aug. 9-13, 2026. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 4) (Poster)
Dong-Hyuk Seo, Sein Kim, Taeri Kim, Won-Yong Shin, and Sang-Wook Kim, “SCOUT: Structure-Aware Aspect and Anchor-Count Selection for Node Attribute Augmentation via Positional Information,” In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW), pp. 935-946, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Apr. 13-17, 2026. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 4) (Poster)
Taeri Kim, Sohee Ban, Hyunjoon Kim, and Sang-Wook Kim, “STARLINE: Contrastive Learning with Modality-Aware Graph Refinement for Effective Multimedia Recommendation,” In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) V.2, pp. 1184-1195, Toronto, ON, Canada, Aug. 3-7, 2025. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 4) (Oral)
Dongho Jeong, Taeri Kim, Donghyeon Cho, and Sang-Wook Kim, “MELON: Learning Multi-Aspect Modality Preferences for Accurate Multimedia Recommendation,” In Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), pp. 1850-1859, Padova, Italy, Jul. 13-18, 2025. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 4) (Oral)
Taeri Kim, Jiho Heo, Hyunjoon Kim, and Sang-Wook Kim, “HI-DR: Exploiting Health Status-Aware Attention and an EHR Graph+ for Effective Medication Recommendation,” In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 11950-11958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Feb. 25-Mar. 4, 2025. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 4) (Oral)
{Taeri Kim*, Jiho Heo*, Hongil Kim*}, Kijung Shin, and Sang-Wook Kim, “VITA: ‘Carefully Chosen and Weighted Less’ Is Better in Medication Recommendation,” In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 8600-8607, Vancouver, Canada, Feb. 20-27, 2024. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 4) (Oral)
{Yungi Kim*, Taeri Kim*}, Won-Yong Shin, and Sang-Wook Kim, “MONET: Modality-Embracing Graph Convolutional Network and Target-Aware Attention for Multimedia Recommendation,” In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pp. 332-340, Mérida, México, Mar. 4-8, 2024. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 3) (Oral)
{Taeri Kim*, Noseong Park*}, Jiwon Hong, and Sang-Wook Kim, “Phishing URL Detection: A Network-based Approach Robust to Evasion,” In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 1769-1782, Los Angeles, USA, Nov. 7-11, 2022. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 4) (Oral)
{Taeri Kim*, Yeon-Chang Lee*}, Kijung Shin, and Sang-Wook Kim, “MARIO: Modality-Aware Attention and Modality-Preserving Decoders for Multimedia Recommendation,” In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 993-1002, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Oct. 17-21, 2022. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 3) (Oral)
{Taeyong Kong*, Taeri Kim*}, Jinsung Jeon, Jeongwhan Choi, Yeon-Chang Lee, Noseong Park, and Sang-Wook Kim, “Linear, or Non-Linear, That is the Question!,” In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pp. 517-525, Virtual Event, Tempe, Arizona, USA, Feb. 21-25, 2022. (Full paper) (BK21 IF: 3) (Oral)
Sung-Jun Park, Jiwon Hong, Taeri Kim, and Sang-Wook Kim, “Malware Classification: Methods and Evaluation,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Convergence Content (ICCC), pp. 267-268, Johor, Malaysia, Dec. 19-21, 2019. (Short paper) (Best Paper Award)
Jiwon Hong, Sung-Jun Park, Taeri Kim, Yung-Kyun Noh, and Sang-Wook Kim, “Malware Classification for Identifying Author Groups: A Graph-based Approach,” In Proceedings of the Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (RACS), pp. 169-174, Chongqing, China, Sep. 24-27, 2019. (Full paper)

Journal Papers

{Jiyeon Kim*, Taeri Kim*}, and Sang-Wook Kim, “Read between the interactions: Understanding non-interacted items for accurate multimedia recommendation,” Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 20(3), pp. 933-948, Jun. 2023. (2023 JCR IF: 1.2)

Book Chapters

“Phishing URL Detection with Lexical Features and Blacklisted Domains,” Adaptive Autonomous Secure Cyber Systems 2020 (Chapter 12), pp. 253-267, Springer, 2020.

Awards

  • Feb. 2025, 2024 Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Research Institute of Industrial Science, Hanyang University
  • May 2024, Best Paper Award, Annual Symposium of KIPS 2024 (ASK 2024)
  • Dec. 2022, Ph.D. Fellowship Award, Naver Corporation
  • Feb. 2020, 2019 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Convergence Content (ICCC 2019)
  • Aug. 2019, Best Presentation Award, Korea Computer Congress 2019 (KCC 2019)
  • Aug. 2015, President’s Award for Outstanding Academic Performance, Hansung University

Invited Talks

  • Apr. 2026, New Faculty Session, 2026 Korea Society for Smart Media Spring Conference (KISM 2026 Spring Conference)
  • Jun. 2024, Top Conference Session, Korea Computer Congress 2024 (KCC 2024)
  • Dec. 2023, Top Conference Session, Korea Software Congress 2023 (KSC 2023)
  • Aug. 2023, Distinguished Research Session, Samsung Security Tech Forum (SSTF 2023)
  • Dec. 2022, Top Conference Session, Korea Software Congress 2022 (KSC 2022)

Activities

Program Committee

Vice-Chair

  • ACM SAC 2026 (SONAMA Track)

Member

  • ACM CIKM 2026, 2025
  • AAAI 2026
  • ACM SAC 2025, 2024

Reviewing

Conference

  • ACM SIGIR 2026, 2024
  • IEEE ICDM 2025, 2024, 2023
  • ACM WWW 2026, 2024

Journal

  • Information Fusion
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Information Processing and Management
  • Information Sciences
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • Big Data Research
  • Expert Systems With Applications
  • Advanced Engineering Informatics
  • The Journal of Supercomputing

Teaching Experience

Teaching

V024008: Web Engineering Capstone Design @ Hansung University 2026

V024004: Web Server Programming @ Hansung University 2026

V020014: Operating System @ Hansung University 2026

V020006: Probability and Statistics @ Hansung University 2026

Teaching Assistant

SKT AI Course: Recommender Systems @ SK Telecom 2021

ITE4005: Data Science @ Hanyang University 2020, 2019, 2018

ITE2038: Database Systems @ Hanyang University 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

Tutoring

MME0017: Object-Oriented Programming @ Hansung University 2014

MME0050: JAVA Programming @ Hansung University 2014, 2013

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science Mar. 2017 – Feb. 2025

Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Dissertation: Effective Approaches to Exploiting Multimodal Features for Accurate Recommendation (Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award)

Advisor: Prof. Sang-Wook Kim

B.S. in Computer Science (Multimedia Engineering) Mar. 2012 – Aug. 2015

Hansung University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

(President’s Award for Outstanding Academic Performance)

Experience

Assistant Professor Mar. 2026 –

Division of Computer Engineering, Hansung University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Postdoctoral Researcher Mar. 2025 – Feb. 2026

Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea