I am looking for
hard-working, self-motivated Ph.D. students.
If you are interested in my research, feel free to email me your CV (or resume)
and a research statement that briefly describes the research problem
of your interest and your proposed approach to addressing the problem.
Research Projects
My main area of research is Real-Time Embedded Systems and
Quality of Service (QoS) Management. The current research
projects include (but not limited) to the following ones:
Selected Recent Publications
For a full list, please click here.
- C. Basaran, K.D. Kang
"Grex: An Efficient MapReduce Framework for Graphics Processing Units,"
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, To Appear.
- J. Oh, K.D. Kang, "A Predictive-Reactive Method for Improving the
Robustness of Real-Time Data Services," IEEE Transactions
on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 25, Issue 5, pages
974 - 986, May, 2013.
- M. H. Suzer, K. D. Kang, C. Basaran,
"Active Queue Management via Event-Driven Feedback Control,"
Computer Communications, Elsevier, Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 517-529,
February 2012.
- K. Kapitanova, S. H. Son, K. D. Kang,
"Using Fuzzy Logic for Robust Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks",
Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, Volume 10, Issue 4, pages 709-722, June 2012.
- C. Basaran, K. D. Kang, "Supporting
Preemptive Task Executions and Memory Copies in GPGPUs," In
Proceedings of the 24th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS
'12), July 11 - 13, 2012, Pisa, Italy.
- Y. Zhou, K. D. Kang,
"A Federated Approach to Increasing the Timely Throughput of Real-Time Data Services,"
In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '12),
April 16 - 19, 2012, Beijing, China. (Best Student Paper Award Candidate)
- K. D. Kang, Y. Zhou, J. Oh,
"Estimating and Enhancing Real-Time
Data Service Delays: Control Theoretic Approaches", IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 23,
Issue 4, pages 554 - 567, April 2011.
- Yan Zhou, Kyoung-Don Kang, "Deadline
Assignment and Tardiness Control for Real-Time Data Services",
In Proceedings of the 22nd
Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS '10),
Brussels, Belgium, July 6-9, 2010.
Teaching
Some of Recent Professional Services
- Program Committee Member, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 & 2013
- Program Committee Member,
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology
and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2008 & 2011
- Program Committee Member,
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and
Sensor Systems (MASS), 2013
- Program Committee Member,
IEEE International Conference on Service
Oriented Computing & Applications (SOCA), 2013.
- Program Committee Member,
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and
Networks (ICCCN), 2007, 2008, 2009
- Program Committee Member, IEEE International Symposium on
Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed
Computing (ISORC), 2008 & 2009
- Program Committee Member,
IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time
Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2007 & 2012
- Program Committee Member,
International Conference on Emerging Databases - Technologies,
Applications, and Theory (EDB), 2013
Students
- Seth Appleman (PhD)
- Can Basaran (PhD)
- Phil Sin (part time PhD)
- Navneet Navneet (MS)
- Zhozhun Zhang (MS)
Previous Students and Intial Placement
- Yan Zhou (PhD, August 2011), Cisco Systems Inc.
- Mehmet Suzer (PhD, August 2011), Assistant Professor, Harran University,
Turkey
- Jisu Oh (PhD, May 2011), Samsung Electronics
- Eric Sabbah (PhD, August 2010), Assistant Professor, Department of
Computer Science, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
In addition, I have graduated 18 MS students including the recent MS
graduates such as Jean-Paul Laplante and Scott Denman working at the MIT
Lincoln Labratory and Lockheed Martin, respectively.
Most of the previous MS students are working in industry
in the U.S.
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