BYUNGGU YU

http://csit.udc.edu/~byu

Ph.D. in Computer Science (class 2000), Illinois Institute of Technology

U.S. Citizen

CONTACT INFORMATION

Office: (202) 274-6289; Cell: (858) 436-4433

byu@udc.edu

POSITION

2007-present    Acting Chair, Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia

 

2007-present    Associate Professor, Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia

 

2006-2007         Associate Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems, National University

 

2000-2006         Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Wyoming

ADMINISTRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT

Development of the brand-new CSIT web site and all the rich materials posted from scratch (the first time in the department’s history): http://csit.udc.edu, 2008 – present

 

CS ABET Accreditation and Enhancements of CS and IT Curricula: the Original “Main-Book” Program Review System, 2008 à Full 6 Year CS ABET Accreditation (the first time in the department’s history): Fall 2008 Visit, 2009 Accreditation – present 

 

Development of Departmental Advisory Board and Relationships with DC and Fed departments, including NIST, OCTO, NSF, and NIH (currently further growing), 2008 – present

 

MOA with other institutions: Texas A&M Texarkana, the University of Denver, Alion Science for DOD/USAF SNIM, 2008 – present

 

Development of PhD in CS proposal (a planning version and a development version), 2009 – present

GRANT & FUNDED PROJECT

Submitting PI:

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu, Dr. Sherali Zeadally, Dr. Lily R. Liang, and Dr. Li Chen, Collaborative Research: A Partnership for Developing the IA Workforce, NSF National Science Foundation Award No. 0911969, Sept 1, 2009 – Aug 31, 2012 ($300K for UDC for Phase I, separately additional $240K and additional 60K assigned for Univ. of Denver counterpart and external evaluator), Funded.

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu, Dr. Pradeep Behera, Dr. Seon Ho Kim, and Dr. Paul Cotae, Environmental Urban Runoff Monitoring, Award NSF-CMMI-0940393, NSF, National Science Foundation, $100,000, July 1, 2009 – Dec 31, 2010, Funded.

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu and Dr. Pradeep Behera, Application of Spatiotemporal Informatics to Water Quality, Water Resource Research Institute, under Grant 6F4200 from Federal USDOI/US Geological Survey, $30,000/$15,000 from WRRI, Phase II: June 2009- May 2010, Funded.

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu and Dr. Pradeep Behera, Application of Spatiotemporal Informatics to Water Quality, Water Resource Research Institute, under Grant 6F4200 from Federal USDOI/US Geological Survey, $30,000/$15,000 from WRRI, Phase I: June 2008-May2009, Funded.

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu, Dr. Seon Ho Kim, SPOT-SQL, Sun Microsystems. SPOT-SQL One Phase I: 3 SPOT developer packages w/ 9 SPOTs and three developer software at about $1,857 and technical support; collaboration with Sun scientists in Java DB and SPOT research. Funded for on-going effort.

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu, Multi-Layer Spatial Access Methods, Informix Software, Inc., $222,250.00, 2001 – 2004, Informix Software, Inc., Informix S/W, Technical Supports, and Training Award, 2001.

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu, Towards Processing Complex Spatial Queries, NSF EPSCoR NSFLOC4304, $33,028.97, 2001 – 2003, Funded.

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu, Co-PIs: Dr. Ruben Gamboa and Dr. Thomas Bailey, A Database Server for Moving Object Trajectories, NSF 04-500, IIS, IDM, Rated “Competitive” by NSF panel but will not be funded.

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu, A Scalable Database Server for Moving Object Trajectories, NSF 02-111, IIS, IDM, Rated “Competitive” by NSF panel but will not be funded.

 

Co-PI:

 

Dr. Seon Ho Kim, Dr. Pradeep Behera, and Dr. Byunggu Yu, Development of a Fast Optimization Technique Using Interactive Spatial Join for GIS Applications in Water Resources, under Grant 6F4200 from Federal USDOI/US Geological Survey, $30,000/$15,000 from WRRI, Phase I: June 2009- May 2010, Funded.

 

Dr. Ronald Uhlig (contact person), Dr. Ali Farahani, Dr. Byunggu Yu, Dr. Feodor Vainstein, Dr. Shekar Viswana, Dr. Howard Evans (School Dean), Achieving Compelling Student Comprehension of Complex Information Structures, National University, $19,000 in cash and $49,000 in technology for 2007-2008 AY, HP Higher Ed. Grant ID 1896669. Funded.

 

Other Projects as a researcher:

 

1997 to 1998, Lung Scan Database Project, Illinois Institute of Technology and Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois: Image Database Design and Implementation  for PET-Scans with Informix DBMS. Adaptive Visual Query Processing and Spatial Indexing.

 

1995 to 1997, Advanced Traveler Information System, Hangkong University and Korean Ministry of Information and Telecommunication, Seoul, South Korea: Traffic Database Server Development with ODBC and Orbix (CORBA). Development of Virtual Driving with Realtime Traffic Information.

 

1995 to 1997, Office Automation System, Hangkong University, Seoul, South Korea: Application of the techniques, which were developed from Advanced Traffic Information Systems project, for Office Automation.

 

1994 to 1995, K-2 Airplane Navigation Simulator, Hangkong University and Daewoo Heavy Industry, Seoul, South Korea: Realtime Spatial Database Search Technique. 

 

In addition to the following, I have one NSF proposal in review and another NSF proposal will be submitted in Jan. Two other proposals are in review by WRRI.

PUBLICATION - a SAMPLE of 20

(Other publications are listed on my home page)

 

Seon Ho Kim, Byunggu Yu, and Jae-young Chang, Zoned-Partitioning of Tree-Like Access Methods, accepted for publication in the Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 33, Issue 3, pp. 315-331, 2008, Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2007.11.001

 

Byunggu Yu and Thomas Bailey. Processing Partially Specified Queries over High-Dimensional Databases. DKE Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 62, Issue 1, pp. 177-197, 2007, Elsevier.

 

Byunggu Yu, Thomas Bailey, and Ratko Orlandic. Estimating the Performance of Multidimensional Access Methods based on Non-Overlapping Regions. IJIS International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 22, pp. 1-19, 2007, Wiley. doi:10.1002/int.20200

 

Byunggu Yu and Ratko Orlandic. Indexing Regional Objects in High-Dimensional Spaces. Advanced Topics in Database Research, Vol. 5, pp. 348-372, 2006, Idea Group Publishing.

 

Ratko Orlandic and Byunggu Yu. Scalable QSF-Trees: Retrieving Regional Objects in High-Dimensional Spaces. JDM Journal of Database Management, Vol. 15, No.3, pp. 45-59, 2005, Idea Group Publishing.

 

Ratko Orlandic and Byunggu Yu. A Retrieval Technique for High-Dimensional Data and Partially Specified Queries. DKE Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 1-21, 2002, Elsevier.

 

Shayma Alkobaisi, Wan D. Bae, Seon Ho Kim, and Byunggu Yu. MBR Models for Uncertainty Regions of Moving Objects. DASFAA Database Systems for Advanced Applications, LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science, accepted as a full paper for publication and for presentation), Springer-Verlag. (acceptance rate = 16.7%)

 

Byunggu Yu, Seon Ho Kim, Shayma Alkobaisi, Wan D. Bae, and Thomas Bailey. The Tornado Model: Uncertainty Model for Continuously Changing Data. DASFAA Database Systems for Advanced Applications, LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4443, pp. 624-636, April 2007, Springer-Verlag. (acceptance rate = 70/375=18.7%; graduate advisee)

 

Byunggu Yu and Seon Ho Kim. Interpolating and Using Most Likely Trajectories in Moving-Objects Databases. DEXA Database and Expert Systems Applications, LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4080, pp. 718-727, 2006, Springer-Verlag. (acceptance rate=90/388≈23%)

 

Byunggu Yu. A Spatiotemporal Uncertainty Model of Degree 1.5 for Continuously Changing Data Objects. Proceedings of ACM SIGAPP SAC, Symposium on Applied Computing, Mobile Computing and Applications, pp. 1150-1155, 2006, ACM. (acceptance rate=12/35≈34%)

 

Byunggu Yu and S.H. Kim. An Efficient Zoning Technique for Multi-Dimensional Access Methods. In: Proceedings of VLDB Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture, 2005 & In: post-conference LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3888, pp. 129-143, 2006, Springer-Verlag. (acceptance rate=10/38≈26%)

 

Byunggu Yu. Adaptive query processing in point-transformation schemes. DEXA Database and Expert Systems Applications, LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3588, pp. 197-206, 2005, Springer-Verlag. (acceptance rate=92/390≈23%)

 

Byunggu Yu. A Query System for Spatiotemporal Database Applications. Proceedings of IEEE 18th Int. Conf. on Systems Engineering, pp. 28-33, 2005, IEEE.

 

Byunggu Yu, Seonho Kim, Thomas Bailey, and Ruben Gamboa. Curve-Based Representation of Moving Object Trajectories. Proceedings of IEEE IDEAS International Database Engineering and Applications, pp. 419-425, 2004, IEEE. (acceptance rate=30/119≈25% plus 17 short papers)

 

Bonggi Jun, Bonghee Hong, and Byunggu Yu. Dynamic Splitting Policies of the Adaptive 3DR-tree for Indexing Continuously Moving Objects. DEXA International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2736, pp. 308-317, 2003, Springer-Verlag. (acceptance rate=91/236≈39%)

 

Dong Hyun Kim, Bong Hee Hong, Byunggu Yu, and Eun Suk Hong. Validation-based Reprocessing Scheme for Updating Spatial Data in Mobile Computing Environments. Proceedings of IEEE AINA International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, pp. 211-214, 2003, IEEE. (2003 acceptance rate is unknown; 2004 acceptance rate was 25%)

 

Ratko Orlandic and Byunggu Yu. Implementing KDB-Trees to Support High-Dimensional Data. Proceedings of IEEE IDEAS International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, 58-67, 2001, IEEE.  (acceptance rate=27/80≈33%)

 

Byunggu Yu and Ratko Orlandic. Object and Query Transformation: Supporting Multi-Dimensional Queries in Transactional Systems. Proceedings of ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 141-149, 2000, ACM. (acceptance rate=66/179≈36%)

 

Ratko Orlandic and Byunggu Yu. A Study of MBR-Based Spatial Access Methods: How Well They Perform in High-Dimensional Spaces. Proceedings of IEEE IDEAS International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, pp. 306-315, 2000, IEEE. (acceptance rate=36/90≈40%)

 

Byunggu Yu, Ratko Orlandic, and Martha Evens. An Efficient and Scalable Spatial Access Method: Simple QSF-trees. Proceedings ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 5-14, 1999, ACM. (acceptance rate= 69/172≈40%)

MAJOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH COMPETITION, COMMERCIALIZED

Byunggu Yu. A Realtime Search Mechanism for Continuous Moving Objects in a Spatial Databases. Proceedings of the 1st Human-Tech Research Paper (Thesis) Competition, (one of the best 3, Gold Prize), Samsung Elec. Co., Commercialized, also a property of Korea Defense Ministry (Air-force).

DISSERTATION

Byunggu Yu, A Family of Scalable Spatial Access Methods for High-Dimensional Data, Ph.D. Dissertation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 2000.

 

Byunggu Yu, Dynamic Index Techniques for Spatial Databases, M.S. Dissertation, Hangkong University, Korea, 1996.

 

Byunggu Yu, Realtime Search Techniques for Moving Objects , B.S. Research, Hangkong University, Korea, 1994.

AWARD AND HONOR

Dr. Byunggu Yu, Outstanding Departmental Leadership and Superior Contribution to the 2008 ABET Accreditation Visit for Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2008, Awarded.

 

Dr. Byunggu Yu, National University Presidential Research Award. 2007.

 

Ratko Orlandic and Byunggu Yu, "Scalable QSF-Trees: Retrieving Regional Objects in High-Dimensional Spaces," Journal of Database Management, Ideas Group Publishing Vol. 15, No.3, pp. 45-59, 2004 selected as one of the best JDM papers of the last two years.

 

1999, Best Student Paper Award, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.

 

1995/1996, Gold-Prize, 1st Human-Tech Research Paper Competition, Samsung Elec. Co., Seoul, Korea ($6,000 prize + fully supported M.S. degree & VIP Europe Tour package).

 

1995/1996, One of the Best B.S. Graduates invited to the President’s House by a former President of Korea, Kim, Young-Sam.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer, DKE, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Spec Issue on "Advanced Knowledge-based Systems (Ed. Alfredo Cuzzocrea)", Elsevier ‘09

International Program Committee Member, LNCS/LNAI KES 2009 Invited Session on Advanced Knowledge-based Systems, 2009

Reviewer, ETRI Journal, 2007--

Conference Program Committee Member, LNCS TEAA

Conference Program Committee Mamber, IRMA

Conference Program Committee Member, CITSA’06

Conference Program Committee Member, SOIC’05

External Reviewer, IC06, WMSCI06, IIIS

International Reviewer, JZUS Zhejiang University Science

Conference Program Committee Member, ICCSA’05’06

Invited Session Organizer, ISAS/CITSA 2005, Histograms and Selectivity Estimation in Spatiotemporal Databases

Session Chair, ISAS/CITSA’05 --

Session Chair, ICCSA’05

Reviewer, ETRI Journal, 2006 --

Proposal Reviewer, Research Grant Office, City University of Hong Kong 2005-2006

Reviewer, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Springer, 2005 --

Book Reviewer, μMPS Project, Thomson Course Technology, Feb., 2005

Reviewer, IRMA’05

Reviewer, PISTA’04 & ‘05

Reviewer, International Journal for Computers and Their Applications

Additional Reviewer, SCI’03

Secondary Reviewer under Dr. Ratko Orlandic, CS&I'02