Sam Han

Director, AI/ML and Zeus Technology, The Washington Post

Han was on the AI & Journalism panel at ISOJ 2023. Watch the presentation here.

Dr. Eui-Hong (Sam) Han is Director of AI/ML and Zeus Technology at The Washington Post. He is an experienced practitioner of AI, machine learning and data science. He has provided strategic and tactical leadership in data science discipline and led data science teams focused on augmenting key enterprise customer and revenue growth initiatives through the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning at The Washington Post, Marriott International, Persistent Systems and Sears. He has more than 30 published papers and presented his works at academic and industry conferences. He recently served as a Local Co-Chair of the 2022 KDD conference. He also served as a Tutorial Chair of 2001 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. He organized PAKDD Workshops on Text Mining (2002) and Knowledge Discovery in Life Science Literature (2006). He has also served as a Program Committee member for SIGIR, KDD, ICDM, ECML/PKDD and DaWak conferences. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.