Education & Training

  • University of California, Riverside CA USA - Postdoc in ECE (Oct 2021 - Aug 2022)
  • University of California, Riverside CA USA - Ph.D. student in ECE (2016 - 2021)
  • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo CA USA - M.S. in EE (2015)
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon Korea - M.S. in EECS (2009)
  • Yonsei University, Seoul Korea - B.S. in EE (2007)

Employment

  • San Diego State University, CA USA, Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Aug 2022 - Present)
  • Cal Poly ASI, San Luis Obispo, CA USA - IT Programmer (2014 - 2016)
  • CUVE, Palo Alto, CA USA - Software Engineer (Co-founder). (2012 - 2014)
  • Hyundai Heavy Industries, Co., LTD., Yongin Korea - Researcher in Robotics Lab. (2009 - 2012)
  • LG CNS, Seoul Korea - Internship (2008)

Teaching Experience

  • The Theory of Real-Time Systems (CS596), Fall 2024, San Diego State University, USA
  • Algorithms (CS460), Spring 2023, Fall 2023, and Spring 2024, Fall 2024, San Diego State University, USA
  • Algorithms (CS460), Fall 2022, San Diego State University, USA
  • Logic Design (CS/EE120A), Spring 2018, UC Riverside, USA
  • Logic Design (CS/EE120A), Winter 2018, UC Riverside, USA
  • Embedded Systems (EE414), Spring 2008, KAIST, South Korea

Advising / Current RTEC members

  • Hyunhee Kwak, MS in CS, SDSU, 2023-Present
  • Pascal Reich, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2023-Present
  • Jacob Taylor, Aerospace, SDSU, (XRA Startup) 2023-Present
  • Gybran Valdivia, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, (XRA Startup) 2023-Present

Former members

  • Hong-Gi Park, Visiting Scholar, Hyundai Motors, 2023-2024
  • Areum Kang, Visiting Scholar, South Korea, 2024
  • Adian Thomas, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2022-2024
  • John Pateros, MS in CS, SDSU, 2023
  • Alan Yin, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2024
  • John Choi, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2023
  • Maximilian BARTH, M.S., Universität der Bundeswehr München, Visiting Summer 2023

Awards

  • 3rd Place & Most Autonomous Car Award in the 17th F1Tenth Grand Prix., CPS-IoTWeek 2024
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE RTAS 2024
  • Seed Grant Program (SGP) Award, SDSU 2022
  • Outstanding presentation at Global Top Talent Forum of Hyundai Motor Group (HMG), San Diego CA USA 2019
  • Dean's distinguished fellowship, UCR, Riverside CA USA 2016
  • Graduate with Distinction, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo CA USA 2015
  • Entrepreneur Challenge Winner, Portfolium USA 2015
  • Web Design Challenge 2nd, Portfolium USA 2015
  • Winner of Portfolium Contest(College of Engineering, Cal Poly) 2015
  • Nominee of Outstanding Student Employee of the Year, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo CA USA 2015
  • Scholarship student, Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea 2008
  • High Honors & Honors, Yonsei University, Seoul South Korea ~2007

Technical Program Committee

  • IEEE 14th International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems(SIES), 2024
  • Hardware, Software, and Tools for the IoT-to-Edge-to-Cloud Continuum (HSTIEC) in DSD, 2024
  • 30th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium(RTAS-BP)@CPS-IoT Week, 2024
  • International workshop on Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing (RAGE)@CPS-IoT Week, 2023
  • International workshop on Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing (RAGE)@DAC, 2022

Reviewers

  • Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), 2024 (reviewer)
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2024 (Reviewer)
  • International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC), 2023 (Reviewer)
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2023 (Reviewer)
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2023 (reviewer)
  • IEEE Systems Journal, 2022 (reviewer)
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2022 (reviewer)
  • Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), 2021 (reviewer)
  • IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2020, 2022 (external reviewer)
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020 (external reviewer)
  • IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2020 (external reviewer)