DEC/14/95
Name:
Sung-Hoon Ko
Mailing Address:
116 Remington Ave. APT D
Syracuse, NY 13210
Email address:
shko@npac.syr.edu, shko@top.cis.syr.edu
Gender:
Male
Citizenship:
(eg US National, Indian, Chinese, Polish, German, Egyptian, Turkish, Scottish, Australian... )
Korean
Visa Status:
(eg J1, H1,..., US National)
F1
SU Academic Department affiliation:
(eg Physics, CIS,...)
CIS
Degrees earned:
(Name of Institution and Date awarded)
BS: Mathematics, Han-Yang University, Seoul, Korea, Feb 1985.
MS: CIS, Syracuse University, Syracuse, U.S.A, May 1993.
Current Academic Status at SU:
(eg doing masters, doing PhD)
doing PhD
Date Course Work Started:
Sep, 1993
Anticipated Comprehensive Examination Date:
MAR, 1996
Anticipated PhD graduation Date:
DEC, 1997
Total Number of Tuition Hours to Complete Current Degree:
12
Number of Tuition Hours needed for Fall:
0
Number of Tuition Hours needed for Spring:
9
Number of Tuition Hours needed for Summer:
3
Name of NPAC Project leader:
(the NPAC person mainly associated with you and your work)
Paul Coddington
Full Name of Academic Advisor:
Geoffrey Fox
Paul Coddington
Full Name of Thesis/Dissertation Director:
Geoffrey Fox
Paul Coddington
Full Names of Thesis/Dissertation Committee Members:
Geoffrey Fox
Paul Coddington
Ernest Sibert
Alan Middleton (Physics)
List all Completed SU Courses and Grade Earned:
FALL/1995
Dissertation CIS 999
SPRING/1995
Independent Study(with Paul Coddington)
Dissertation CIS 999
FALL/1994
Parallel Computing CIS 710 A
Data Parallel Computing CIS 712 A-
Independent Study(with Paul Coddington) A
SPRING/1994
Parallel Processing Systems CSE 763 A
Numerical Linear Algebra MAT 682 A-
Independent Study(with Paul Coddington)
FALL/1993
Computational Science(Software/Algorithms) CPS500 A-
Computer Architecture CIS 655 B+
Independent Study(with Paul Coddington)
SPRING/1993
TOPICS:Computational Science CPS 700 A-
Object-Oriented Prog. & C++ CIS 500 A
FALL/1992
INTR/Computational Science CPS 615 A
Analysis of Algorithms CIS 675 B+
ENGR DES/Operating System CSE 585 B+
SPRING/1992
Compiler Design CIS 631 A-
Semantics,PRGMNG & VRFCTN CIS 623 A-
INTRO Artificial Intelligence CIS561 B+
FALL/1991
Formal Languages CIS 637 A
Concrete Math./COMP SCI CIS 622 B+
FNDMNTLS/COMP.SCI.MATH CIS 521 A-
List all SU Courses you EXPECT to Take:
Parallel & DIST Algorithm CIS 700
Probability & Statistics MAT 626, MAT 621
List your PhD Reading List (if applicable):
A Primer for the Monte Carlo Method, Ilya M. Sobol'
Solving Problems on Concurrent Processors, Geoffrey Fox
Introduction to Parallel Computing, Vipin Kumar
Seminumerical Algorithms, Knuth
Papers related to random number generators and Monte Carlo methods.
Dissertation Topic / Title: (State whether this a Masters or Thesis Dissertation)
Parallel Monte Carlo simulation using parallel (HPF) Rnadom Number Gnerators. : Thesis Dissertation.
Career Goals:
(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)
Computer applications area in research lab or industry in Korea.
Areas of your specialization:
(eg software, hardware, systems, algorithms, more detail if possible...indicate what you are good at and interested in)
Parallel random number generators.
Mote Carlo simulation.
I am interested in real-time terrain renderering.
Project assignments:
(Describe any special duties that you have outside thesis work that are currently assigned to you, eg Mosaic, HPFA, foils developement, software development for parallel systems, please give as much detail as possible...)
Writing a hypertext "roadmap" for random number generators, with software for good sequential and parallel random number generators.
Develop HPF Random Number Generator.
On what NPAC Main project(s) are you currently working:
The National HPCC Software Exchange Project
Parallel Random number Generators for HPF.
HPF applications.
On what NPAC Service activities are you currently working:
List other NPAC activities you have worked on in the past which are not covered above:
Prallel Wolff Cluster Algorithms.
(Int J Mod Phys C) (NPAC Technical Reports SCCS-619)
Type of research you expect to be working on for the next semester:
(describe giving as much detail as possible)
The National HPCC Software Exchange Project
Random number Generators.
Parallel I/O.
High Performance Fortran applications.
(please describe reason and give dates where possible)
(Take the printed form to these people for their signatures)
NPAC Project Leader:
Paul Coddington
Thesis Dissertation Director:
Geoffrey Fox
Paul Coddington
Academic Advisor:
Geoffrey Fox
Paul Coddington.
NPAC Director:
Geoffrey Fox