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Education

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., 2009.

Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
- Electronic and Electrical Engineering, MS, 1996.

Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea
- Electronic Engineering, BS, 1994.

Work experience

http://www.vptinc.com/ VP Technologies, LLC.].
- Research Staff Member, 2009-current

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
- Research Assistant, 2002-2009
- Invent an extended SQL language, EML, to extend RDBMS to support unstructured query, semantic expansion, unified object namespaces, transactional temporal query, ranking ordering and path query.
- Develop the E-model database system to support heterogenous data models for information chronicling. It achieved 224 times faster performance than XML and 17 times faster than RDBMS for the unstructured query.
- US DOT traffic sign detection algorithm that achieved 0% false-negative and 20% false-positive error.

Pervasive Computing Solutions, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.
- Research Intern, Summer 2005
- Implement personal information chronicling solutions for IBM enterprise environments.

Imaging Systems Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA.
- Visiting Researcher, July 2003
- Propose the event-based three-tier information processing architecture for experiential meeting system (EMS.)
- Set up the three-year research collaboration on the EMS project.

Facility & Automation Research Center, Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea.
- Research Staff Member, 1998-2002
- Contribute to 22 industrial enterprise data management and automation projects as a principle/co-PI researcher.
- Develop engineering software (selected): (1) Roughing mill plant design software (1997-2000): 0.25 million lines MFC/C++, (2) Free forging mill scheduler (2001-2002): 0.15 million lines MFC/C++.
- Awarded two-year early promotion for high evaluations from customers.

Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea.
- Research Assistant, 1994-1996
- Hierarchical mean field algorithm for stereo vision.
- Real-time moving slab (44 mile/hour) warp measuring computer vision system for POSCO #2 thick-plate plant.
- Slab 3D size meter using laser range finders and computer vision for POSCO #1 hot-plate plant.

Publication

The full list is available at Publication.

Skills

Please see Research for details.

Database (2002-2009): Hybrid graph database system implementation, SQL stored procedures and functions programming, SQL language extension (EML).
Multimedia processing (1994-2009): Real-time video signal acquisition and analysis, color image segmentation, traffic sign detection and type classification, stereo vision.
Enterprise data management and Industrial automation (1994–2002): Real-time operation data monitoring hardware and software system, range and size meter using laser and computer vision, on-line hot slab warp measuring computer vision system.
MFC & C/C++ programming (1994-2009): Personal information chronicling tools, plant design engineering software, cost optimization analysis tools.
- Longest: RMSIM (3 years, Budget: $0.5 million, Source line: 0.25 million lines) progrmmed by myself.
- Biggest: FORSIM (2 years, Budget: $0.25 million, Source line: 0.15 million lines) 2.5 Gigabyte with running data in full install.
Industrial automation (1994–2002): Rough mill edger roll gap measurement system, hot strip width control looper system, moving-slab online size meter, plant data analysis tools, on-line hot slab warp measuring computer vision system.
- Lots of sensors: Laser range finder, Optical sensor, Loadcell, LVDT, etc.
- Data Acquisition hardware & software system design with Labview programming: Developed several real-time sensor, PLC and A/D data acquisition and control system using C and Labview.
Web programming (2002-2009): Multimedia database application using MySQL, PHP and AJAX on Apache.
Middle level certification of Korean sign language: I was in the service program for the deaf at South Korea and met my wife there.