Professional Activities

University Services

• Graduate Committee, Dept. of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2003 - 2004, 2008 - onwards)

• PhD Steering Committee, Dept. of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2008 - onwards)

• Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2006 - 2008) 

• Undergraduate Committee (Chair), Dept. of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2003 - 2008)

• University Faculty Council Representative, Dept. of software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2004 - 2005) 

• College Curriculum Review Ad-hoc Committee, College of Computing and Informatics, UNC Charlotte (2005 - 2006) 

• PhD Committee, Dept. of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2004 - 2005) 

Professional Services

• Program Committee Member – The 18th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’10), Sydney, Australia, September, 2010. 

• PC Member - Int. Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS ’10), Pisa, Italy, Feb. 03-05, 2010. 

• Program Committee Member – The Fourth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV ‘09), in conjunction with the 17th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’09), Atlanta, Georgia, August 31 – September 4, 2009.

• PC Member – The First International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK 09), in conjunction with the 17th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’09), Atlanta, Georgia, August 31 – September 4, 2009. 

• Program Committee Member – The the 17^th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’09), Practitioner Track, Atlanta, Georgia, August 31 – September 4, 2009.

• Program Committee Member – The 15^th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundations for Software Quality (REFSQ), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 8-9, 2009 (Co-located with CAiSE 09) 

• Program Committee Member – International Symposium on Visualization in Software Engineering (SEVIZ) at the 12^th International Conference of Information Visualisation, July, 2008.

• Program Committee Member - The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2008), Dec. 18 -19, Jhongli, Taiwan, 2008.

• Program Committee Member – European Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (EuroISI ’08), Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 3-5th, 2008. 

• Program Committee Member – The First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW ’08), in conjunction with the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’08), Barcelona, Spain. September 08 – 12, 2008. 

• Program Committee Member – The Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV ‘08), in conjunction with the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’08), Barcelona, Spain. September 08 – 12, 2008. 

• Program Committee Member – The First International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK 08), in conjunction with the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’08), Barcelona, Spain. September 08 – 12, 2008.

• Program Committee Member – The Third International Workshop on Multimedia and Enjoyable Requirements Engineering (MERE'08) — Beyond Mere Descriptions and with More Fun and Games, in conjunction with the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’08), Barcelona, Spain. September 08 – 12, 2008. 

• Program Committee, Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS 08) co-located with ARES 2008 Barcelona , Spain, March 4th-7th, 2008. 

• Co-organizer/chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS 07), co-located with the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 07), 20-26, May, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 2007.

• Program Committee: MeRE'07: 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering - Beyond Mere Descriptions, co-located Workshop with the Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2007), 27th of March, Hamburg, Germany, 2007.

• Editorial Board Member: The Journal of Software Patterns

• Program Committee, ACMSE, 2007, The 45th ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2007), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 23-24, 2007.

• Working Group Member, Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Software Assurance: Processes and Practices working group, Technology, Tools and Product Evaluation working group, National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) 2005 – onwards  (Inter-Lab Collaboration with NIST, NSA, DHS and MITRE etc. )

• Program Committee, the 5th International Workshop onRequirements for High-Assurance Systems (RHAS), in conjunction with the 16th IEEE Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'2005), Chicago, Illinois, November 8-11, 2005. 

• Program Committee, Requirements Engineering for High-Availability Systems (RHAS) Workshop in the 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ‘05), 8/29 – 9/2, Paris, France, Software Engineering Institute, IEEE, ACM Press 

• Program Committee, ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2005), July 14-16, 2005, Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel, Jeju Island, South Korea  

• Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2005), Atlanta, Georgia, May 19-20, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 

• Program Committee, the first IEEE International Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering, Software Architecture, and Reuse (COMSAR 2005), June 14, 2005 at Las Vegas Hilton, Nevada, USA.  It will be held in conjunction with the IEEE IRI 2005 (June 12-14, 2005).

• Program Committee and Publicity Chair, 3rd ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management & Applications (SERA2005), CMU, Aug. 11-13, 2005. IEEE Press.

• Program Committee, The 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE '04), June 20-24, 2004, Banff Alberta Canada.

• Board of Reviewers, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), World Scientic Publishing Co. (Fall 2003 - onwards)

• Journal Referee, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Kluwer Academic Publishers, United Kingdom. 1999-2000.

• Student Volunteer, the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), July 18-22, Orlando, Florida, 1999.

• Referee, the Fourth International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning (MSL-98), June 11-13, Desenzano del Garda (Brescia, Italy), 1998.

• Journal Referee, Machine Learning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, United Kingdom. 1998.

• Reviewer and contributing co-author, the book/chapters in Tecuci, G., Building Intelligent Agents: An Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Theory, Methodology, Tool and Case Studies. Academic Press, London, England, 1998.

• Student Volunteer, the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), July 26-30, Madison, Wisconsin, 1998.

• Reviewer, the chapters in Michalski, R.S., Bratko, I. and Kubat, M. (Eds.), Machine Learning and Data Mining: Methods and Applications, London: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. 

• Student Volunteer, the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), July 27-31, Providence, Rhode Island, 1997.

Presentations 

• Invited Lecture, “Requirements Engineering”, July 13-14, 2009, Software Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics, Korea

• Invited Talk, “Towards Dependable Software: Requirements Engineering Approach”, July 14, 2009, Research Seminar at Software Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics, Ki-Heung, Korea  

• Invited Talk, “Towards Dependable Software: Requirements Engineering Approach”, July 8, 2009, Research Seminar at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

• Invited Talk, “Towards Dependable Software: Requirements Engineering Approach”, July 7, 2009, Research Seminar (Computer Science Department Research Colloquium) at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea

• Invited Talk, “Towards Dependable Software: Requirements Engineering Approach”, June 29, 2009, Research Seminar at Fudan University, Shanghai, China

• Invited Talk, “Software Assurance: Requirements Engineering Approach”, July 5, 2006, Research Highlight: Hallym University from Korea.

• Invited Talk, “Software Assurance: Requirements Engineering Approach”, May 22, 2006, Shanghai Jia-Tong University, Shanghai, China.

• Invited Talk, “Software Assurance: Requirements Engineering Approach”, May 23, 2006, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

• Invited Talk, “Software Assurance: Requirements Engineering Approach”, June 1 2006, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea. 

• Invited Seminar Speaker, “XML Introduction and Best Practices”, TIAA-CREF, October 8 & 15, 2004. Charlotte (New York, St. Louis, Denver via Conference Bridge).

• Invited Lecturer, “GenOM: Generic Object Model & GIS System Integration”, GEOG6615: Spatial Decision Support Systems & GIS research seminar, Dept. of Geography and Earth Sciences, (Hosted by Dr. Wei-Ning Xiang). Sep. Nov. 2004.

• Invited Talk, “Context-aware software computing environment: Conceptual Modeling, Specification, and Applications”, Sejong University (Seoul), June – July, 2004, Korea.

• Invited Talk, “Proxy Viewpoints Model-based Requirements Discovery: A New NASA NET Course”, A NASA-NET Technical Presentation, Washington DC. Dec. 2003.

• Invited Talk, “Proxy Viewpoints Model-based Requirements Discovery”, Department of Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina (Host: Dr. William Tolone and Dr. Bill Chu) Charlotte, NC. Feb. 26. 2003.

• “Business Rules Engine Design and Implementation in TEDS”, SAIC ISSG, Presented at TE/GE, International Revenue Service (IRS) HQ, Washington D.C. December 12, 2002.

• Invited Talk, “ML-FromForms: Document Classification and Data Extraction System”, SAIC ISSG, Presented at International Monetary Fund (IMF) HQ, Technology and General Services Department, Washington D.C. June 13^th 2001.

• Invited Talk, “A Methodological Knowledge Discovery Framework through Pattern Classification and Inductive Concept Learning”, The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine(NLM), National Institute of Health(NIH). (Host: Center Director Dr. Alexa, McCray) Bethesda, MD. Nov. 15. 1999.

• Invited Talk, “A Methodological Knowledge Discovery Framework through Pattern Classification and Inductive Concept Learning”, IBM Thomas. J. Watson Research Center, (Host: Dr. J. Hellerstein) Yorktown Heights, New York, Oct. 28-29. 1999.

• Invited Talk, “Building High Performance Ontologies from Shared Knowledge Repositories through Exception-driven Knowledge Discovery and Learning”, Information Extraction & Transport Inc (IET), (Host: Dr. Robert Schrag) May 5, 1999.

• “Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases: A Collaborative Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Approach,” GMU Learning Agents Laboratory, Presented at DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) Workshop, DARPA/ISO, Hilton, Austin, Texas, 19-21 Jan. 1999.

• Invited Talk, “A Methodological Knowledge Discovery Framework for Constructive Induction-based Multistrategy Learning”, the 1998 Korea-U.S. Technical Conference on Strategic Technologies (KUTC-98), Information Sciences Track (Host and Chair: Dr. Se Jun Hong, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center), Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA), October 22-24, Vienna, VA. 1998.

• "Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases: A Collaborative Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Approach: Analysis Report of the 1st Year Evaluation," GMU Learning Agents Laboratory, DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) Workshop, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, The Information Systems Office (DARPA/ISO), Capital Hilton, Washington, D.C., 7-10 July 1998. (Analysis Report of the 1st Evaluation).

• “Demonstration: Building a Workarounds Knowledge Base, Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases: A Collaborative Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Approach, '' GMU Learning Agents Laboratory, Poster presentation at the DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) Project Principal Investigator Meeting, December 3, San Diego, 1997.

• "Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases: A Collaborative Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Approach," GMU Learning Agents Laboratory, Poster presentation at the DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) Project Kick-off Meeting, Staunton, VA, June 3-5, 1997.

• Third International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning (MSL-96), GMU Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, Harpers Ferry, WV, May 23-25, 1996.

Professional Associations and Memberships

• 1992-present: Member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, SIGART:Intelligence, SIGKDD), AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence), IEEE Computer, SMC (Systems, Man, and Cybernetics) and Software Engineering Society, NYAS (New York Academy of Sciences), and KSEA (Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association) 

Last Updated - Aug. 2009.