Gil-Young Song
Senior Executive Vice President, Daumsoft
Song Gilyoung is a pioneer in the science of translating online consumer opinions into actionable intelligence for businesses. He and his colleagues at Daumsoft, the company he co-founded, developed much of the technology that makes it possible to automatically analyze what billions of social media posts mean.
Song has served as Daumsoft’s Chief Strategy Officer since the company spun off from Daum Communications, Korea’s largest web portal, in 2000. His company specializes in text mining, large-scale search and natural language-processing technologies. Currently, he serves as the director of the Business Intelligence Data Mining Academy in Seoul and as an adjunct professor at Seoul Women’s University. He also established and leads the Opinion Mining Working Group, a professional organization for the data mining industry.
Prior to founding Daumsoft, Song was a researcher and consultant at the Korea Trade Network in Seoul, specializing in international trade automation and e-government projects carried out in conjunction with global technology companies.
Currently working to complete his doctoral dissertation in computer science at Korea University, he holds a BA and MA in the same subject from Korea University. He has also completed the Global Business School offered by the Federation of Korean Industries-International Management Institute.