SNU Professors Kyuseok Shim and Jaejin Lee Elected as IEEE Fellow


▲ Professor Kyuseok Shim (SNU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, LEFT), Professor Jaejin Lee (SNU Department of Computer Science and Engineering, RIGHT)

 
SNU College of Engineering (Dean Kook Heon Char) announced on 27^th that Professor Kyuseok Shim of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor Jaejin Lee of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering have been nominated as IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow.
 
Professor Kyuseok Shim has been credited for his contributions to the development of query processing and optimization of algorithms for data mining and database systems.
 
Professor Shim graduated from SNU Department of Electrical Engineering to earn his master and doctor’s degree at the University of Maryland. Shim conducted various researches on data mining and database at his graduate school, Hewlett Packard (HP) Laboratories, Federal Reserve Board (FRB), IBM Almaden Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Microsoft Research, etc. After serving as the assistant professor of the School of Computing at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Shim returned to SNU in March of 2002 to fill the post of full professor for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Shim has also organized several industry-university cooperation with Korean companies including Samsung Electronics. He was the editor for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and VLDB Journal and a fellow for the Association for Computing Machinery since 2013.
 
Professor Jaejin Lee is noted for his contribution to the development of programming systems for heterogeneous computing systems, which uses more than one kind of processor or cores like CPU and GPU. Heterogeneous computing systems are widely used today for running deep learning applications.
 
Professor Lee earned his bachelor’s degree at SNU Department of Physics, master’s degree at Stanford’s Department of Computer Science, and doctor’s degree at UIUC (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)’s Department of Computer Science. He was the assistant professor for the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University until he returned to SNU in September of 2002 to serve as a full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. At SNU, Lee has conducted numerous researches on compilers and computer architecture. SnuCL, an OpenCL framework developed by Professor Lee has made heterogeneous clusters programming without communication library like MPI possible. SnuCL is the only OpenCL framework for heterogeneous clusters that can run up to 512 nodes and has been downloaded over 1700 times by over 400 institutions of 65 countries. In addition, the low-cost, energy-efficient heterogeneous supercomputer “Chundoong” developed for the testing of SnuCL has ranked 277^th for its function and 32^nd for its energy-efficiency in November of 2012.
 
Meanwhile, IEEE is the leading society for the field of electronics, communications, electrical and computer engineering with more than 400,000 members in over 160 countries around the world. An IEEE Fellow, being the highest level of membership, is the selected 0.1% of all members with outstanding personal achievements, technical achievements, professional career, etc.