Stony Brook University Computer Science

The department is pleased to welcome two new Assistant Professors whose research and teaching interests complement and strengthen existing areas in the department and also expand into new, exciting areas.   (From left to right) Prof. Yoon-Seok Yang, Prof. Francois Rameau Prof. Yoon-Seok Yang joins us from the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) silicon and research engineer at Google in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Before joining Google, he was as a research scientist at the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel Labs in Santa Clara, California, USA from 2012 to 2022, with a research focus on neuromorphic computing systems and AI chip design. Prof. Yang holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.  His research interests are in Neuromorphic computing, neuromorphic computing algorithms and applications, neuromorphic vision systems, artificial intelligence,  accelerator design, multiprocessor architecture, machine learning-based image processing, and cryptography for security. Prof. Francois Rameau received his Master's degree in Vision and Robotics from the University of Burgundy (France) in 2011, and at the same institution he completed his Ph.D. degree (on 3D vision for robotics) in December 2014 under Prof. Cedric Demonceaux and Prof. David Fofi. Prof. Rameau then joined KAIST (South Korea) in 2015 as a post-doctoral researcher, and he went on to become a research professor in 2017, under the KRF fellowship program. His research interests include machine learning, 3D reconstruction, and perception for robotics. He is one of the pioneers in computer vision for connected vehicles, an area in which he has developed novel approaches, such as collaborative localization and augmented reality for assisted driving.  

For CS Major Students and Faculty,  There will be important curriculum changes to CSE 220 and CSE 320, which will take effect starting in Spring 2023.  Please make sure to read the "2022-2023 Computer Science Curriculum Revisions-FAQ(2)" in the attachment above.      Updated on October 12, 2022 

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.