Stony Brook University Computer Science

Korea University students giving their 10-minite lighting talks on their research at SUNY Korea   SUNY Korea, NY, August 8, 2013 For the past six weeks SUNY Korea hosted 10 Korea University Undergrads to engage into a number of exciting research projects under the guidance of SUNY Korea computer science professors Sael Lee, David Choi, and Klaus Mueller and their PhD students. Additional guidance was provided by Korea University professor Minho Jo who also has a joint appointment with SUNY Korea. The projects spanned a set of diverse research areas. One student, Bohyung Kim, did a project on using crowdsourcing for error correction in automatic language translation. Another student, Kweonsoo Chae, presented his research project “MusiDraw” where users could control the speed of a music piece by the speed of their gestures, using a mouse interface or hand gestures translated by Microsoft Kinect. Essentially, the gamer would feel like a music conductor, controlling an orchestra with the speed and passion of his or her hand gestures. Won Ho Shin and Joo Sung Yoon wrote a dynamic programming application to predict tertiary protein structure. Dong-Hyeon Yeo outlined an interesting approach for improving one time password authentication systems by smartly using GPS information. Hyeokyoon Chang’s project was on Interference minimizing routing with users' priority in cognitive radio network. There were also very interesting projects on visual analytics, cognitive radio, and wireless body area networks. This Friday was show time – who would win one of six airplane seats to visit Stony Brook University, NY for a week. All students gave 10 minute presentations in front of their peers and three academic judges. The fast-paced contest was a firework of impressive research talks of these 10 energetic and aspiring young researchers. The judges sure had a hard time to identify the six winners. But by the time this news item is published the final six are already in the air, on their way to the USA.

         Prof. David Choi               Prof. Sael Lee                 Prof. Ilchul Yoon   SUNY Korea, NY, May 28, 2013 SUNY Korea scored not one, not two, but three MEST New Investigator Awards, for a hit rate of 100%. Please join in to congratulate Profs. Sael Lee, David Choi, and Ilchul Yoon for having accomplished this amazing feat. The feat is amazing because the acceptance rate for these prestigious grants is a mere 20%. And so the likelihood of winning a trifecta of 3/3 is less than 1%. This solid success loudly speaks for the superb quality of our young computer science department. In grant entitled ”Designing a secure and efficient distributed smart grid” Prof. Bong Jun (David) Choi aims to design secure smart grid by enhancing its reliability, stability, and security in distributed settings. In specific, he will investigate fail safe topology and recovery protocols for securing smart grid infrastructure, electric vehicle system for stabilizing and enhancing energy efficiency of the smart grid, and distributed security and privacy mechanisms for microgrids and electric vehicle system. Prof. Sael Lee’s grant “Development of computational methods for reachability-based multi-target detection and applications for adverse drug effects prediction” will develop efficient algorithms for drug-target reachability prediction and apply them in adverse drug reaction predictions. With the developed algorithms, she hopes to introduce possibility in improving the efficacy of the pre-clinical stage of drug development process. Prof. Ilchul Yoon’s research on “Investigating cooperative software testing methods” is going to investigate methods and tools to effectively test compatibility of software components on diverse user environments at reduced cost. He will improve his previous approach to sample test environments (or configurations) from a large set of feasible user configurations, and he also plans to develop a system to support testing activities for communities of developer groups.

  SUNY Korea, May 21, 2013 On Tuesday, George Hart gave a feast for both eyes and brains to an awed crowd of faculty and students. He presented and discussed examples of his amazing mathematically informed sculptures, which generally apply computer technology in their design and/or fabrication. These include works made of metal, wood, plastic, or found objects, and often use laser-cutting, plasma-cutting or 3D-printing technologies in their realization. he also showed a couple of short fabrication videos and discussed the mathematical and computer science aspects of these designs and their underlying foundations. Hart has a PhD from MIT and among many other academic appointments also was a professor at Stony Brook University, He then went on and co-founded MoMath (The Museum of Mathematics) in New York. he is now a freelance mathematical sculptor/designer. For examples of his work, see http://georgehart.com In addition, Hart is one of the organizers of the annual Bridges Conference and he will be announcing that it will be held in Seoul in August 2014. Bridges is the premiere international conference on connections between mathematics and art. Hundreds of artists, mathematicians, scientists, and educators from around the world gather each year to discuss and display mathematical art. Held in various cities and universities each year since 1998, the 2014 Bridges conference will be the first major mathematical art conference in Asia. For more information, see http://bridgesmathart.org