Name: MYEONGJIN (Jen) LEE
Mailing Address:500 University Place SYRACUSE NY 13210
Email address:mjlee@npac.syr.edu
Gender:female
Citizenship:South Korea
Visa Status:F1
SU Academic Department affiliation:EECS
Degrees earned:BS in Computer Science,July 1994, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Current Academic Status at SU:PhD student
Date Course Work Started:August 1994
Anticipated Comprehensive Examination Date:passed all
Anticipated Masters graduation Date:
Anticipated PhD graduation Date:1998
Total Number of Tuition Hours to Complete Current Degree:33
Number of Tuition Hours needed for Fall:9
Number of Tuition Hours needed for Spring:9
Number of Tuition Hours needed for Summer:6
Name of NPAC Project leader:Dave Warner
Full Name of Academic Advisor:Geoffrey Fox
Full Name of Thesis/Dissertation Director:
Full Names of Thesis/Dissertation Committee Members:
List all Completed SU Courses and Grade Earned:
List all SU Courses you EXPECT to Take:only dissertation hours left.
List your PhD Reading List (if applicable):
Dissertation Topic / Title: My dissertation topic will be, roughly saying, efficient user interface for human and computer. I am researching on two streams right now. One is about rehab engineering (mainly ,IEEE transactions on rehabilitation engineering). It is because even though I don't mean to work on the hard ware engineering part for myself, I would need to know metrics to measure how efficient a system is and what kind of hardware appliances are available out there. The other which is my main interest, is to survey current user interfaces both commercial and academic , to gather data on how people get information from outside world, and to find out efficient ways to build a system up on the web such as using VRML 2.0 and JAVA instead of using JAVA solely. Then, I can build testbed and experiment on it to get real data. My first goal of this dissertation is for disabled people but this shouldn't be confined to certain group of people.
Career Goals: a consultant specializing in compter human interface industry or government. I also have a hope to work for rehab facilities to provide them required compter software in order to have better environment to live, enjoy their lives, and learn effectively ; it is for both mentally retarded people and physically disabled people who can't access conventional user interface such as keyboard, or mouse. About work place, it will depend on job search after I get degree.
(Please specify: Type of position sought eg computer applications area or computer development area; type of environment sought eg academia, research lab, industry and location eg USA, home country or other country)
Areas of your specialization: I have been working on web programming such as JAVA, HTML, Perl, WOW, etc. Those are essential because they provide new way of user interface to public. I also have experiences with parallel processing and computational science using parallel languages (C*, HPF) and systems(MPI, PVM).I believe this knowledge will be a great help in handling data to be analized. Neural Network, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science courses which I took so far will provide me profound base to understand psycological aspects of human computer interface and to fine system. I have an ability to build a system and correctly analize it like they do in Cybernetics(IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics) which I could get through Discrete Event System and probability classes.
Project assignments:I am working on Smart Desk project( http://www.cis.syr.edu/~mjlee/temp)
On what NPAC Main project(s) are you currently working:
Name of associated NPAC project leader(s):Dave Warner
On what NPAC Service activities are you currently working:
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List other NPAC activities you have worked on in the past which are not covered above:working with REU students at summer of 96
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Type of research you expect to be working on for the next semester: Smart Desk project will be integrated as one of TANGO applications. Some more interactive technologies of web will be tried but mainly I will look at TANGO. Cultural differences in cognitive matters will be considered. I plan to meet again professor Lewandowsky from psycology department for help. Also the propsal of PhD dissertation is planned at the end of September or early October.
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NPAC Project Leader:Dave Warner
Thesis Dissertation Director:
Academic Advisor:Geoffrey Fox
NPAC Director:Geoffrey Fox