Stony Brook University Computer Science

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

SUNY Korea, September 8th, 2016 Homin Yoon (CS Ph.D. Program) and Jinwoo Choi (CS Undergraduate Program) were both ranked the 2nd in the GameJam 2016 event (8/24~26) organized by the Department of Creative IT Engineering at POSTECH in collaboration with HKU, Netherlands. Teamed with other domestic and international students, they achieved the feat based on the skills learned in mobile game development. Congratulations, Homin and Jinwoo!!

SUNY Korea, Jan 20, 2016 SUNY Korea scored two MEST Young Researcher Program Grants, for a hit rate of 100%. Please join in to congratulate Prof. Sael Lee and Prof. David Choi 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. The acceptance rate for this prestigious grant was 27%. Prof. Sael Lee is supported for "Development of Multi-layer Network Analysis Methods for Integrative Analysis Algorithms of Bio-Clinical Data." She aims to study multi-layer network that will help in storing and inferring knowledge from various sources of high dimensional data by developing data structure and analysis methods for the multi-layer networks. Her research can be applied in various contexts, including bio-clinical data analysis for increasing knowledge of disease pathology.  David Choi's grant "User-Centered Dynamic Microgrid using Data Science Techniques" targets distributed microgrids to provide even more efficient, reliable, secure, and user-friendly smart grid. He aims to build user-centered dynamic microgrids while coping with inherently dynamic in nature of the microgrids and promoting the constructive participation of users. His research will focus on practical applications using electric vehicles and big data.

 

 

 

SUNY Korea, September, 2015 The NVIDIA GPU Research Center at SUNY Korea is headed by Professor Klaus Mueller of SUNY Korea’s Computer Science Department. It supports a wide range of research and education activities that involve CUDA devices and technology. GPU-accelerated computing can tremendously accelerate scientific, analytics, engineering, consumer, and enterprise applications. While a conventional CPU consists of a few cores optimized for sequential serial processing, a GPU has a massively parallel architecture consisting of thousands of smaller, more efficient cores designed for handling multiple tasks simultaneously. One application that uses GPU-technology at SUNY Korea is computed tomography (CT) for medical and industrial applications, such as X-ray and ultrasound imaging. Here the speed of GPUs enables the realization of highly compute-intensive iterative schemes for the reconstruction from data acquired in adverse conditions, such as low radiation dose, sparse acquisition, and beam hardening. GPU-accelerated computing also enables the accurate modeling and integration of the underlying imaging physics into the reconstruction process. Another application at SUNY Korea is in the area of visual analytics and data science where GPUs support frameworks for interactive cluster analysis of big data in health informatics, climate science, finance, and economics. GPUs also accelerate parameter learning of optimization algorithms from example data where the high computational performance of GPUs enables an interactive exploration of the search space. A more recent effort is the design of effective visual interfaces to visualize runtime performance and aid in code optimization, in particular nested loop reordering and decomposition using the polyhedral method. These and other research efforts have been widely published by members of the Center in both the domain literature and as CUDA Computing Gems. Almost all students of the Center have used, or are using, GPUs in their research for the purpose of making their software interactive or facilitating otherwise computationally infeasible research. Courses on high performance computing with GPUs are taught at SUNY Korea on a regular basis where students are able to also hone their skills on SUNY Korea’s high-end multi-GPU K20 and K40 Tesla server. NVIDIA has been a pioneer in visual computing. With its invention of the GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) — the engine of modern visual computing — the field has expanded to encompass video games, movie production, product design, medical diagnosis, and scientific research. In 2007, NVIDIA introduced the application programing interface CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) which has allowed software developers to use GPUs for general purpose parallel computing on the desktop. But also supercomputers such as the Titan at Oakridge National Labs which is currently the 2nd fastest supercomputer in the world are using GPUs on a massive scale to accelerate their computations. With its GPU Research Centers and other academic programs NVIDIA seeks to advance parallel computing education and research.  Among the current NVIDIA GPU Research Centers are world-class institutions such as University of California at Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins University, University of Southern California,  Duke University, and now also SUNY Korea.

SUNY Korea, August, 2015 Professors Pradipta De, David Choi, and Sael Lee win the Global Advanced Technology Center project in collaboration with BI MATRIX (a leading business intelligence company in Korea) and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. The project aims to build a user-friendly scalable real-time business intelligence platform that can cater to the needs of small medium business. In this 5 year project, the SUNY Korea faculty will contribute in explore novel ways to combine Machine Learning techniques, Internet of Things, and Security and Privacy policies to design and implement an intelligent, efficient and secure BI platform. The Global Advance Technology Center project will promote opportunities to collaborate and complement the capabilities of research organizations with diverse expertise to build a world-class research center.