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Teaching Experience
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Dr. SunHee Yoon

I am looking for a research/academic/software engineer job. If you are interested in hiring me, please take a look at my CV.
I am currently working on wireless sensor network simulation in TinyOS 2.x developer group.

Education

Ph.D. (Aug. 2008) in Computer Science Department from University of Southern California.
B.S. (1996) and M.S. (1999) in Computer Science Department from Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea.

Research Interests

Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, Network Protocols, Spatial Databases.
My research interests span a broad range of topics in Networks, Databases, and Artificial Intelligence.

Publications

SunHee Yoon and Cyrus Shahabi, "Computing Distributed Spatial Skyline in Wireless Sensor Networks", Under submission, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
SunHee Yoon, "SWATS: Steamflood and WAterflood Tracking System using Wireless Sensor Networks", Under submission, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
SunHee Yoon and Cyrus Shahabi, "Distributed Spatial Skyline Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks", To appear in the 3rd International Workshop on SensorWebs, Databases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS) in conjunction with INSS, June 2009
SunHee Yoon, "SWATS: Timely, Accurate, and Reliable Steamflood and Waterflood Tracking System using Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) WIP, June 2009
SunHee Yoon and Cyrus Shahabi, "A Distributed Algorithm to Compute Spatial Skyline in Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM/IEEE IPSN Poster, April 2009 [Poster]
SunHee Yoon, "Efficient and Accurate In-Network Processing for Monitoring Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks", PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2008
SunHee Yoon, Wei Ye, John Heidemann, Brian Littlefield, and Cyrus Shahabi, "SWATS: Wireless Sensor Networks for Steamflood and Waterflood Pipeline Monitoring", Under submission, IEEE Network
SunHee Yoon, "A Survey of Network Striping Techniques: From Gigabit Testbeds to Wireless Sensor Networks", Under revision, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
SunHee Yoon and Cyrus Shahabi, "The Clustered AGgregation (CAG) Technique Leveraging Spatial and Temporal Correlations in Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Vol. 3, Issue 1, No. 3, March 2007
SunHee Yoon, Wei Ye, John Heidemann, Brian Littlefield, Tai Nguyen, and John Houghton, "Monitoring Steamflood and Waterflood Systems with Wireless Sensor Networks", CiSoft Forum, February - March 2007
SunHee Yoon and Cyrus Shahabi, "An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Clustered AGgregation (CAG) Leveraging Spatial and Temporal Correlations in Wireless Sensor Networks", USC Computer Science Department Technical Report 05-869, August 2005
SunHee Yoon and Cyrus Shahabi, "Exploiting Spatial Correlation Towards an Energy Efficient Clustered AGgregation Technique (CAG)", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2005 [Slides]
SunHee Yoon and Cyrus Shahabi "An Energy Conserving Clustered Aggregation Technique Leveraging Spatial Correlation", IEEE SECON Poster, October 2004 [Poster]
SunHee Yoon et al. "Role Replacement Problem in STEAM", Unpublished, Draft, May 2001
InSong Koh, JeongWook Park, ByungKeol Choi, ChangKeun Kim, and SunHee Yoon, "Effect of synaptic loss on memory in a neural network model", Journal of the Korean Neurological Association, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2000
SunHee Yoon and Jongpil Yoon, "Using Mobile Agents for Database Directory Management in the Distributed Heterogeneous Databases". Proceedings of The 25th KISS (Korea Information Science Society) Fall Conference, 1998. This was also published as my master's thesis.

Research Experience

[June 2007 ~ August 2008] GeoDec project at InfoLab (Information Laboratory) at USC
[January 2006 ~ May 2007] CiSoft project at Computer Networks Division at Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
[May 2004 ~ December 2005] Sensor Network Databases at InfoLab (Information Laboratory) at USC
[September 2001 ~ March 2003] DynaBone project at Computer Networks Division at Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
[Jaunary 2001 ~ May 2001] Software Multi-Agents Systems at Intelligent Systems Division at Information Sciences Institute (ISI)

[January 1999 ~ September 1999] Research associate at Korea National Institute of Health (KNIH), Lab. of Computational Neuroscience, Biomedical Brain Research Center
[May 1996 ~ March 1997] Research staff at Korea Export Insurance Corporation (KEIC), Dept. of Information Systems

Teaching Experience

TA for CSCI 558, Internetworking and Distributed Systems Laboratory at USC Fall 2006
TA for CSCI 551, Computer Communications at USC Fall 2003, Spring 2006
TA for CSCI 555, Advanced Operating Systems at USC Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005
TA for CSCI 570, Analysis of Algorithms at USC Summer 2001, Fall 2004 (two sections)
Instructor for Multimedia at Korea Manpower Agency June-July 2000
Instructor for Introduction to Computer Science at Seoul National University of Education Spring 2000
Instructor for Programming Language at Kyungwon University Spring 2000
Instructor for Introduction to Computer Science and Computer Practice at Sookmyung Women's University Spring 1999, Fall 1999

Honors

Scholarship as the highest college entrance score bearer from Sookmyung Women's University
Four year full tuition fee scholarship from Sookmyung Women's University

Professional Activities

Paper peer-review: ACM TOSN journal 2009, SensorKDD 2009, DKSS 2009, Sensors 2009, IEEE TKDE journal 2007, 2008, 2009, IEEE WCNC 2009, IEEE ICDCS 2008, EWSN 2007, IEEE/ACM TON journal 2006, ACM SenSys 2004, 2006, IEEE Globecom 2005, ACM MobiDE 2005, ACM CIKM 2005, IEEE ICPS 2005, IEEE INFOCOM 2003
TinyOS 2.x project (since 2009)

Non-academic Interests

I love to have new experience always: knowing new people, acquiring new knowledge, and traveling new places.
I love traveling, watching movies, gardening, hiking, singing, playing the piano (hopefully soon again!), reading/writing, and meditation. ^^*
Pro Bono

Misc Stuff

I'm a Catholic; I love GOD now and forever. I attend the St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Pasadena.
Here is some of my old pictures.
Currently, I'm a member of ACM (since 2002), ACM SIGCOMM (since 2008), IEEE (since 2002), and SPE (since 2007).
I'm also a member of NCEF (since 2007) and The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (since 2005).
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