Jongwook Woo

Jongwook Woo is a Full Professor at California State University, Los Angeles, specializing in Big Data and Scalable Predictive Analytics, with expertise in technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, and Deep Learning. Since 2003, Jongwook has served as Director of the Big Data AI Center (BigDAI) at the High Performance Information Computing Center, conducting research on data analysis and predictive analysis across various fields. In addition to academic roles, Jongwook is a certified instructor with NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and holds advisory positions with Teradata and IBM Spark Technology Center. Jongwook's contributions extend to partnerships with Databricks and Cloudera, as well as receiving grants from Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services for data-intensive computing research and training. Educational credentials include a PhD and MS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and an MS/BS in Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University.