Stony Brook University Computer Science

Hoyoung Kim, a Ph.D. student of computer science and Jihoon Ryoo, a professor of computer science at SUNY Korea won the crowdsourcing technology competition for social problem-solving organized by the Seoul Technology Innovation Center. Hoyoung Kim and Prof. Jihoon Ryoo made a proposal concerning GPS signal generation designed to solve GPS shaded areas, thereby enhancing the development of location tracking technology in underground roads, which was one of three challenges provided by the competition. These students received the highest score in final evaluation by the Seoul Technology Innovation Center, winning 30,000,000 WON in prize money. Through competition, it is expected that the technology proposed by the SUNY Korea computer science department’s research team will be used to solve social problems that ultimately improve citizens’ lives and safety. For more information: http://sunykorea.ac.kr/sk/sunykorea/289

The Computer Science Department at SUNY Korea is seeking a tenure-track or tenured faculty member and a teaching faculty member.  The open positions are announced on CRA.org. A more detailed description of the open positions can be found here on our department website.

Faculty member Dr. Amos Omondi has recently had a book published, on cryptography. Modern cryptosystems are used in numerous applications that require secrecy, security, or privacy: electronic mail, financial transactions, medical-record keeping, government affairs, social media, and so forth. Such systems are based on sophisticated mathematics and algorithms, but at the lowest level (i.e., chip level) of implementation a great deal boils down to computer arithmetic. The book, entitled Cryptography Arithmetic: Algorithms and Hardware Architectures, is on such arithmetic.   It is published by Springer (a division of Springer-Nature, one of the world’s leading publishers of scientific and technical journals and books).   Dr. Omondi is the author of several books, including three on computer arithmetic: Computer Arithmetic Systems (Prentice-Hall, 1994), Residue Number Systems (Imperial College Press, 2007), and Computer-Hardware Evaluation of Mathematical Functions (Imperial College Press, 2015).

Taeyu Im (Quoc Duy Vo) successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation on May 30, 2018. Please join us in congratulating him on this milestone in his life and academic career! We are all proud to have him among our alumni! Congratulations Dr. Im! Here are the details about his thesis.

The Department of Computer Science has recently revised certain core parts of the CSE curriculum. These revisions are described in the 2018-2019 edition of the Undergraduate Bulletin and officially apply to students matriculating in Fall 2018 or later. Some of the changes may also affect current students. This FAQ explains the CSE course revisions for Fall 2018.

Prof. McKenna again took the lead for another fun Quiz Night as a SUNY Korea Computing Society (SKCS) event. It has become an annual event now. He organized a Quiz Night as the inaugural SKCS event in October of 2017. He said: We'll be having fun as well as trying to get this group off the ground. Note that back in Stony Brook there is a similar group called the Stony Brook Computing Society (SBCS) that has been around for many years and has thousands of members in industry. Students help students, alumni help students, alumni help alumni, and faculty help all, of course.   Details about the inaugural event can be found here.        

Three of our CS Ph.D. students (Sangyup Lee, Sharoz Tariq, and Homin Yoon) working with Prof. Simon Woo (http://www.cs.sunykorea.ac.kr/people/faculty/SimonWoo.html) won the overall second place for the Korean Data Science Challenge for Cyber-security on December 10, 2017 (Track: DDos, Vehicle Anomaly Detection) (URL: http://challenge.cisc.or.kr/). It was our first time to compete in this national data analysis challenge, and they topped all other schools including SNU, Korea Univ., Ajou Uni., etc, and even other security firms (Penta security, etc.) in Korea. The scores may be viewed here: http://211.34.4.21/_main_/score/?type=car.   The first place prize was claimed by the team from Korean National Defense Research Center. Our graduate students really fought hard and went the extra mile to reach the stars. Please join us in congratulating these students and faculty for their hard work and exceptional performance at the national competition.    Congratulations!    ​  ​  ​

Two LEAD Lab teams are participating in an IEEE Seoul Chapter's Student Paper Competition and ITCCP Research Achievement Day. See here for details. Bao Tran Truong and Lakmi Kulathunga won a Gold prize and Joshua Han and Nuwan Werellagama won a Bronze in the competition. Congratulations!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 SUNY Korea Math Competition!  Two of our CS students won as follows: Presidential Award: So Young Chung Honorable Mention: Jinwoo Choi

In October 2017 Shahroz Tariq, a Ph.D. student in the CS Department, participated in Global Hackathon that was co-organized by Jeju Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (JCCEI) and Kookmin University in Jeju Island, South Korea. It was managed by Venture Square Korea and Hubba community Thailand. This year’s hackathon theme was “Save the Earth for Future Generations”. The hackathon spanned over 3 days and 2 nights. There were participants from all over the world including USA, Canada, France, Lithuania, Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and South Korea. Shahroz's team won the "Most Outstanding Project" prize. Details are here.   

Prof. McKenna organized a Quiz Night as the inaugural SUNY Korea Computing Society (SKCS) event. He said: We'll be having fun as well as trying to get this group off the ground. Note that back in Stony Brook there is a similar group called the Stony Brook Computing Society (SBCS) that has been around for many years and has thousands of members in industry. Students help students, alumni help students, alumni help alumni, and faculty help all, of course.   Details about the event are here.

SUNY Korea, September 1, 2017 Professor Simon Woo won a prestigious Young Researcher Program Grant from Korea National Research Fund (NRF). Please join in to congratulate Dr. Woo for having accomplished this amazing feat. This program grant is awarded to young researchers to help them become the future research leaders by supporting creative research ideas. Prof. Woo is supported for "A new approach to protect online personal data" for three years.

SUNY Korea, September 1, 2017 Professor Jihoon Ryoo won a prestigious Young Researcher Program Grant from Korea National Research Fund (NRF). Please join in to congratulate Dr. Ryoo for having accomplished this amazing feat. This program grant is awarded to young researchers to help them become the future research leaders by supporting creative research ideas. Prof. Ryoo is supported for "SALI360: Saliency based 360 video streaming service" for three years.

 

SUNY Korea, October 2016 Udara Silva, Jin Woo Han, Nuwan Werellagama, and Charis Asante-Agyei attended the 2016 Makeathon in Seoul, to formulate and present their idea. Their aim is to make an Android application to foster interaction between Koreans and Foreigners overcoming cultural and language barriers. They have won 3rd place for funding! 2016 Makeathon Event