Manki Min

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

Research Grant Efforts

• Sung Shin (PI), Manki Min (Co-PI), Intelligent Diagnosis Support Software of Breast Cancer Detection System with MT, May 2009–Jan. 2010,
  University-Industrial Collaboration Foundation, Chung-Nam National University, Korea (Total $22,000)


• Manki Min (PI), Sung Shin (Co-PI), Network-flow based optimization problems in various network environments, Sep. 2007–Aug. 2010,
  NSF Numeric, Symbolic & Geometric Computing Program (CCF-0729182, Total $200,000)
  National Science Foundation


• Manki Min (PI), Computation Research, Nov. 2006–May 2007,
  Research/Scholarship Start-Up Funds ($11,148)
  South Dakota State University


• Manki Min (PI), Initial Start-Up Funds ($20,000), Sep. 2006–Aug. 2008,
  Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  South Dakota State University

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

Academic Tree

Professional Activity

• Coach of SDSU teams for ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) since 2006
  In 2009, our team placed the second in the site and the fifth in the region.
  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 Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, AZ, Dec. 2009
    • IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Network Algorithm and Theory (IEEE WiNA-09), Macau SAR, China, Oct. 2009
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Xiamen, China, Oct. 2009
    • ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking and Computing (FOWANC), New Orleans, LA, May 2009
    • World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Los Angeles/Anaheim, CA, Apr. 2009
  • 2008
    • International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA), Dallas, TX, Oct. 2008
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Sydney, Australia, July 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