Home page of Ilkyeun Ra

Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Colorado Denver

Bio Contact FAQ (Ph.D. & MS) News (Job) Research Teaching

Ilkyeun [il kyun] Ra holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer and Information Science from Syracuse University in 2001, MS degree in Computer Science from University of Colorado Boulder in 1994, and Bachelor's degree and MS in Computer Science from Sogang University in 1985 and 1987 repectively. He was a Research Staff Member at the LG Information and Communications (Currently LG Telecom) Research Center (1987-1992). He joined the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver 2001.

His main research interests include developing adaptive distributed system software and high speed communication system software to support High Performance Distributed Computing Applications.

Vita (Last updated Feb. 2008)

Teaching

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."-- by Sir Winston Churchill

Office Hours for Fall 2008: Mon/Wed 2:30-4:00 pm & Tue 3-5 pm or By appointment

Fall 2008 :

CSC3453: Operating System Concepts (M/W 5:30-6:45pm NC 1326)

CSC5574: Advanced Topics in Operating Systems (M/W 7:00-8:15pm NC 1324)

Previous Courses Previous Courses:

CSC3453- Operating System Concepts
CSC4591- Computer Architecture
CSC4739- Senior Design Projects
CSC4761/5761-Introduction to Computer Networks
CSC5559-Database Systems
CSC5573-Operating Systems
CSC5799: High performance network based computing
CSC5803-ST: Cluster Computing

Research

Research Lab (Distributed Computing and Networking) (Decent Lab - NC 2407)

Current Projects

Web-based Hospital Computerized Disaster Information and Management System (CDIMS): develop a novel web service based Computerized Disaster Information and Management System (CDIMS) to direct disaster management by hospitals. CDIMS will assist with disaster preparation as well as command and communications during a disaster. This project is funded by NIH (with Drs. Little and Ward-Gaines, Grant number: 1G08LM009710-01, May 2008-May 2011)
Autonomic Computing environments (Autonomia) : Provides the application developers with all the tools required to specify the appropriate control and management schemes to maintain any quality of service requirement or application attribute/functionality (e.g., performance, fault, security, etc.) and the core autonomic middleware services to maintain the autonomic requirements of a wide range of network applications and services.
Workflow based Grid-Computing for Problem Solving Environments : Developing a grid portal that provides runtime environments and task developing tools for large and complex computational science problems.
Self-Healing Networks : Develop network management system which can detect some possible failures in a network system, and recover from failures to avoid catastrophic disasters such as being down entire network.
Proactive runtime communication management agent (PROMA): PROMA is capable of proactively and adaptively configuring, and managing applications' communication environments by a predictive communication environment model that represents the communication requirements of applications and current network status.

Past Projects

Development of Parallel Computing Environment of Huge Data Processing: Developing parallel data link level simulator. Funded by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) , Dajeon, South Korea.
Adaptive Computing Environments for high-performance distributed applications over Grid (ADViCE): A web-based parallel and distributed computing environment that allows users to develop large scale parallel and distributed applications using libraries of parallel/distributed function modules and run them across the networks over Grid Computing Environment.
Peer-to-Peer distributed storage system : Developing an intelligent P2P file storage system which allows users to store and retrieve their data at any nodes which may be very secure nodes or un-secure nodes without worry about the security and reliability of their stored data.
Peer-to-Peer messaging system : Developing an JXTA based message passing system for P2P applications.
Adaptive Communication Systems (ACS) : ACS is an adaptive high performance message-passing system that provides programmable communication, control and management services to meet the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of applications. In addition, developed analytical performance models for adaptive group communication services that are aware of network and computing resources and application requirements.

Research Publications (last updated Feb. 2008)

News (Job Positions)

TWO (2) RA (Research Assistant) Positions are available for conducting a NIH (National Institutes of Health) project from Summer 2008. Please send your resume to me or feel free to contact me.
- Required strong Web-programming programming skills (PHP, web-server, mySQL)
  and knowledge of distributed computing concepts.
- Prefer Ph.D. students, but any talented MS or undergraduate also welcomed.
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platform in Centennial CO, has CO-OP positions for Software and Hardware

FAQ

Prospective Ph.D. Students

I am looking for diligent and talented Ph.D. students who are interested in distributed computing or computer networks. Please check my current research activities and publications. If you'd like to work with me, please email me your resume. Thank you.

For Ph.D. Program application information for CS: Click Here

Prospective and Current MS students

MS student's Frequently Asked Questions and Answers (By Prof. Alaghband)

Contact

Email: ilkyeun dot ra at ucdenver dot edu
Office: North Class Room (NC) 2605-C
Phone: +1-303-556-2371
Fax: +1-303-556-8369
Address:
University of Colorado Denver
Dept. of Computer Science & Eng.
Campus Box 109, P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364 U.S.A.
Address for Overnight Delivery:
1201 5th Street
Campus Box 109
University of Colorado Denver
Denver, CO 80204 U.S.A.

(Updated 04 Aug 2008 02:47 PM MDT)