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
- Capstone project (CS496) sponsor, Fall 2025, San Diego State University, USA
- The Theory of Real-Time Systems (CS596), Fall 2024 and Fall 2025, 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
- Blake Pearson, MS in ECE, SDSU, 2024-Present
- Marcus Chen, MS in CS, SDSU, 2025-Present
- Shagun Patel, MS in CS, SDSU, 2025-Present
- Steven Pun, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2025-Present
- Anh Huy Hguyen, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2025-Present
- Victor Tepordei, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2025-Present
- Matthew Tran, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2025-Present
- Jaden Ong, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2025-Present
- Eal Kim, Visiting Scholar, South Korea, 2025-Present
Former members
- Jacob Taylor, Aerospace, SDSU, (XRA Startup) 2023-2025
- Kane Cruz-Walker, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2025
- Hyunhee Kwak, MS in CS, SDSU, 2023-2025
- Pascal Reich, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2023-2025
- Sawyer Blankenship, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2024-2025
- Elijah Pearce, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2024-2025
- Gybran Valdivia, Undergraduate in CS, SDSU, 2023-2024
- 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
- Most Influential Professor of the Year 2025 (Computer Science)
- 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 Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS & RTSS-BP), 2025
- IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium(RTAS-BP)@CPS-IoT Week, 2025
- RTNS - Junior Researcher Workshop on Real-Time Computing, 2024
- 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
- 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
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026), 2025
- ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 2025
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2025
- IEEE Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2025
- IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2025
- Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, 2025
- Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), 2024
- ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2024
- International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC), 2023
- ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2023
- ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2023
- IEEE Systems Journal, 2022
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2022
- Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), 2021
- 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)