Manki Min

Assistant Professor
Computer Science Program
Dept. of EE & Computer Science
South Dakota State University

Contact Information

• Email:     manki.min (at) sdstate.edu
                minm.csc.sdstate (at) gmail.com (for class purpose)
• Address: Box 2222, EECS 127, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
                South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007
• Phone:    605-688-6269
• Fax:        605-688-4401

Teaching (Fall 2009)

• CSC 218, S1 Intro. C/C++/Unix for Engineers
• CSC 445, S1 Intro. Theory of Computation

      Past:

• CSC 218, S1 Intro. C/C++/Unix for Engineers
• CSC 445, S1 Intro. Theory of Computation
• CSC 720, S1 Theory of Computation

Education

• Sep. 2000 ~ Aug. 2004
  Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.
  Advisor : Prof. Ding-Zhu Du
• Mar. 1997 ~ Feb. 1999
  M.S. in Computer Science from Dept. of Computer Science, Seoul National University, Korea
  Advisor : Prof. Chisu Wu
• Mar. 1991 ~ Feb. 1997
  B.S. in Mathematics from Dept. of Mathematics, Seoul National University, Korea

Work Experience

• Aug. 2006 ~ present
  Assistant Professor of Computer Science Program, Dept. of EECS, South Dakota State University.
• July 2006 ~ Aug. 2006
  Adjunct Professor, Dept. of EECS, South Dakota State University.
• Aug. 2004 ~ June 2006
  Post Doc Research Associate / Instructor, University of Florida.
• Jan. 2001 ~ May 2004
  Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.
• Mar. 2000 ~ May 2000
  Part-time Lecturer, BIT academy, Seoul, Korea.
• Mar. 1999 ~ Feb. 2000
  Administrative Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
• Mar. 1997 ~ Feb. 1999
  Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
• Feb. 1993 ~ Aug. 1994
  Served for Korean Army.
• 1991 ~ 1999
  Private Tutor in High School Mathematics.

Awards & Honors

• NSF Research Grant Award, National Science Foundation, Sep. 2007.
• Research/Scholarship Start-Up Funds Award, South Dakota State University, Nov. 2006.
• The Best Paper Award from the 22nd IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communication Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2003.
• 5 times scholarships for tuition, Seoul National University, 1991 - 1997.

Research Interests & Publications

• Optimizations and Approximations in networks
  • power optimal multicasting in wireless ad hoc networks,
  • power optimal operation scheme for sensor ad hoc networks,
  • minimal time evacuation planning using contraflow in transportation networks,
  • exploration of optimization problems in ubiquitous carpool networks and/or social networks
• Mobility-aware management of wireless ad hoc networks, Theoretical and practical analysis of virtual backbones using unit disk graphs, and Network security/cryptography.
• Publications

Professional Activity

• Coach of SDSU teams for ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) since 2006
  In 2008, one of our team placed the third in the site and the fifth in the region.
• Grant Proposal Review Panelist/Reviewer
  • 2008
    • NSF panelist for three different panels - NEDG, NEDG/NECO, and REU Site panels
    • NSF proposal reviewer for REU Site proposals
  • 2005
    • NSF panelist for Theory of Computing panel
• Technical Program Committee
  • 2009
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Xiamen, China, Oct. 2009
    • World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Los Angeles/Anaheim, CA, Apr. 2009
    • ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking and Computing (FOWANC), New Orleans, LA, May 2009
  • 2008
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Sydney, Australia, July 2008
    • International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA), Dallas, TX, Oct. 2008
  • 2007
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Fukushima Japan, Oct. 2007
    • International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN), Qingdao, China, Aug. 2007
  • 2006
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Seoul, Korea, Sep. 2006
    • International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN), Las Vegas, NV, June 2006

• Reviewer

  • Journal

    • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

    • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

    • IEEE Communication Letters

    • Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier

    • Wireless Networks, Springerlink

    • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer

    • Optimization Letters, Springer

    • International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley

    • International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Inderscience

    • International Journal of Sensor Networks, Inderscience

    • International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, Inderscience

  • Conference

    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008)

    • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2006)

    • International Workshop on Experimental Algorithms (WEA 2006)

    • International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2005)

• Member of IEEE and ACM since 2006