Kyohong Shin

About
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate, KAIST, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Mar 2015 - Present
- M.S., KAIST, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Feb 2014
- B.S., KAIST, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Feb 2012
Research Interests
- Emergency Medical Service system
- Disaster response system
- Markov Decision Processes
- Reinforcement learning (Approximate Dynamic Programming)
- Decision making in uncertainty
Professional Experience
- Research Assistant, KAIST, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Journal Publication
- "Evaluation of disaster response system using agent-based model with geospatial and medical details," Bae, J. W., Shin, K., Lee, H.-R., Lee, H. J., Lee, T., Kim, J-H., Cha, W-C., Kim, G. W., and Moon, I-C., IEEE Transactions System, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2017
- "Priority assignment for emergency medical service provision in disaster by considering resource limitation," Shin, K. and Lee, T., Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation, 14(2):159-168, 2014
Journal Papers under Review
- "Emergency Medical Service Resource Allocation in a Mass Casualty Incident by Integrating Patient Prioritization and Hospital Selection Problems," Shin, K. and Lee, T., IISE Transactions, under review
- "SPARTAN: A meta-algorithm for reinforcement learning using state partitioning and action network," Shin, K. and Lee, T., Computers & Operations Research, under review
Working Paper
Conference Proceedings
- "A meta algorithm for reinforcement learning: emergency medical service resource prioritization problem in an MCI as an example," Shin, K. and Lee, T., Fourth International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering, Montreal, Canada, May 30-June 1, 2019
- "SPartAN: A Meta-algorithm for Reinforcement Learning using State Partitioning and Action Network," Shin, K. and Lee, T., Winter Simulation Conference 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, December 9-12, 2018
- "Characterizing emergency responses in localities with different social infrastructure using EMSSim," Lee, T., Shin, K., Lee, H.-R., Lee, H.J., Sung, I., Bae, J.W., Lee, J., and Moon, I-C., Winter Simulation Conference, Washington D.C., USA, December 11-14, 2016
- "A structured approach for constructing high fidelity ED simulation," Lee, W., Shin, K., Lee, H-R., Lee, Shin, H., and Lee, T., Winter Simulation Conference, Washington D.C., USA, December 11-14, 2016
- "Emergency Medical Service (EMS) System design evaluator," Shin, K., Sung, I., and Lee, T., Winter Simulation Conference, Washington D.C., USA, December 8-11, 2013
Conference Presentations
- "Decision Making under Compliance Uncertainty," Lee, T., Shin, K., and Song, Y., 2019 INFORMS annual meeting, Seattle, USA, Oct 20-23, 2019
- "MDP Model Considering Mental Inertia of a Decision Performer to the Optimization," Song, Y., Shin, K., and Lee, T., 2019 KIIE Annual Spring Conference, Gwangju, Korea, April 10-13, 2019
- "Patient Prioritization and Hospital Selection for EMS Response to Mass Casualty Incident," Shin, K. and Lee, T., 2018 INFORMS International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, June 17-20, 2018
- "Monte carlo tree search algorithm using action learning in small problems," Shin, K. and Lee, T., 2017 KIIE Annual Spring Conference, Yeosu, Korea, April 26-28, 2017
- "Approximate Dynamic Programming using Monte Carlo Tree Search and Deep Neural Network," Shin, K. and Lee, T., 2016 KIIE Annual Fall Conference, Seoul, Korea, November 19, 2016
- "Case study: Emergency department simulation for SMC," Lee, W., Shin, K., Lee, H.-R., Lee, Shin, H., Lee, T., and Kang, W., 2016 KIIE Annual Spring Conference, Jeju, Korea, April 13-16, 2016
- "Approximate Dynamic Programming for priority assignment and hospital selection in mass-casualty incident," Shin, K. and Lee, T., 2015 KIIE Annual Spring Conference, Jeju, Korea, April 8-11, 2015
- "Markov Decision Process model for prioritizing and distributing patients to multiple-hospitals under mass casualty incident," Shin, K. and Lee, T., 2014 KIIE Annual Spring Conference, Busan, Korea, May 16-17, 2014
- "Activity cancelling in P-ACD and its application to EMS system modeling," Lee, H. J., Shin, K. and Lee, T., 2014 Korea Society for Simulation (KSS) Annual Conference, Daegu, Korea, May 30, 2014
- "A simulation model for assessments of an emergency medical service system," Sung, I., Shin, K. and Lee, T., 2013 KIIE Annual Spring Conference, Yeosu, Korea, May 24-25, 2013
Research Projects
- Automated Logistics System Optimization of a Tire Factory (한국타이어 공장 물류 자동화 시스템 최적화), participating researcher, Hankook Tire & Technology, January, 2019 – present
- A Study on the Efficiency Improvement of Fraud Detection System (현대카드 Fraud Detection System 분석 효율화 방안에 대한 연구), participating researcher, Hyundai Card, January 2018 – November 2018
- Decision making model under future disaster response system (미래재난대응체계 하의 복잡 의사결정 모형 연구), participating researcher, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), June 2016 - Present
- Research and development of modeling and simulating the rescues (국지적 재난 시 이송 및 의료기관 시뮬레이션 및 대응체계 개발), the transfer, and the treatment of disaster victims, participating researcher, Ministry of Public Safety and Security, May 2013 – Apr 2015
- Interdependent Disaster Modeling for Critical Infrastructures (사회 핵심 인프라 모델링 기술), participating researcher, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Feb 2012 – Jul 2014
Award
- Best Paper Award at 2014 Korea Society for Simulation (KSS) Annual Conference, May 2014 (Lee, H. J., Shin, K. and Lee, T., "Activity cancelling in P-ACD and its application to EMS system modeling")
Contact
hong906@kaist.ac.kr