Curriculum Vitae
Ren-Song Ko

Personal

Education

Research

Dissertation

Journal Publications

  1. Ren-Song Ko and Matt W. Mutka, ``A Component-Based Approach for Adaptive Soft Real-Time Java within Heterogeneous Environments,'' the special issue of Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2003.

Conference Publications

  1. Ren-Song Ko and Matt W. Mutka, ``Use ASAP to Develop Flexible and Efficient Distributed Self-Adaptive Systems,'' submitted to the 2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2003), October 2003.
  2. Ren-Song Ko and Matt W. Mutka, ``Adaptive Soft Real-Time Java within Heterogeneous Environments,'' Proceedings of Tenth International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, April 2002.
  3. Ren-Song Ko and Matt W. Mutka, ``FRAME for Achieving Performance Portability within Heterogeneous Environments,'' Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Conference on Engineering Computer Based Systems, April 2002.

    Presentations

    1. ``Software Development within Dynamic Heterogeneous Environments,'' National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, October, 2003. http://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~korenson/presentation/ASAP.ppt
    2. ``Adaptive Software Architecture Project (ASAP),'' Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, September, 2002.
    3. ``Adaptive Soft Real-Time Java within Heterogeneous Environments,'' Tenth International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, April, 2002.

    Awards

    Experience

    2003--presentAssistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

    1999--2002Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
    • CSE231: Introduction to Programming I
    • CSE232: Introduction to Programming II
    • CSE410: Operation System
    • CSE420: Computer Architecture
    • CSE830: Design and Theory of Algorithms
    • CSE835: Algorithmic Graph Theory
    Duties included conducting lab sessions, answering questions and grading homeworks.

    1997--1999, 2001--2003Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
    Developed GUI and improved the functionality for the pavement design software, MFPDS, on Windows sponsored by Michigan Department of Transportation. The GUI is developed solely in C++ and the core algorithm is developed collaboratively in Fortran with Visual Fortran.

    Projects

    1999--presentDesign and implementation of the adaptive software architecture project(ASAP), for developing self-adaptive software under dynamic heterogeneous environments.
    2001--2003Improvement of the dynamic version of the pavement design software, MFPDS, on Windows.
    1997--1999Implementation of the pavement design software, MFPDS, on Windows.

    Professional Activities

    References

    1. Matt W. Mutka
      Associate Professor
      Department of Computer Science and Engineering
      3115 Engineering Building
      Michigan State University
      East Lansing, MI 48824-1226
      Phone: 517-353-9731
      FAX: (517) 432-1061
      Email: mutka@cse.msu.edu
    2. Lionel M. Ni
      Professor, Head
      Department of Computer Science
      Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
      Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
      Hong Kong
      Phone: 852-2358-7009
      FAX: (852) 2358-2679
      Email: ni@cse.msu.edu, ni@cs.ust.hk
    3. Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian
      Associate Professor
      Department of Computer Science and Engineering
      3115 Engineering Building
      Michigan State University
      East Lansing, MI 48824-1226
      Phone: 517-353-4389
      FAX: (517) 432-1061
      Email: esfahanian@cse.msu.edu
    4. Mark H. McCullen
      Academic Specialist
      Department of Computer Science and Engineering
      3115 Engineering Building
      Michigan State University
      East Lansing, MI 48824-1226
      Phone: 517-355-2354
      FAX: (517) 432-1061
      Email: mccullen@cse.msu.edu
    5. Ronald S. Harichandran
      Professor, Chairperson
      Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
      3546C Engineering Building
      Michigan State University
      East Lansing, MI 48824-1226
      Phone: 517-355-5107
      FAX: (517) 432-1827
      Email: harichan@egr.msu.edu