Kang G. Shin is the Kevin and Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

. He is also the Founding Director of the Real-Time Computing Laboratory (RTCL). He is known for his contributions to the field of wireless networking and network security

Network security

In the field of networking, the area of network security consists of the provisions and policies adopted by the network administrator to prevent and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of the computer network and network-accessible resources...

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Shin is a recipient of the Ho-Am Prize

Ho-Am Prize

The Ho-Am Prize is a Korean annual award awarded to "domestic/abroad ethnic Korean who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind," often referred to as the Korean equivalent of the Nobel Prize.Awarded since 1991, it is...

 in Engineering. This prize is awarded for the "outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind".

Research interests

• Wireless networking
• Computation and network security
• Cyber-physical systems
• Virtualization-based server consolidation and resource management

Real-Time Computing Laboratory (RTCL)

RTCL is a research group in the EECS dept. at Univ. of Michigan. The research topics at RTCL include:

• Quality-of-Service (QoS) sensitive computation and networking, especially focusing on Internet services and applications
• Real-time operating systems and middleware services
• Distributed system architectures for timeliness and dependability QoS
• Fault-tolerant system design, analysis, and validation
• Open controller software architectures and real time database
  Real time database
  A real-time database is a processing system designed to handle workloads whose state is constantly changing . This differs from traditional databases containing persistent data, mostly unaffected by time. For example, a stock market changes very rapidly and is dynamic...
  
  s for embedded systems like automobiles, automated homes and factories.

RTCL Alumni Tree

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