Kang Geun Shin is a South Korean-born computer scientist and the Kevin and Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. He is also the founding director of the Real-Time Computing Laboratory (RTCL). He is known for his contributions to the field of real-time fault-tolerant systems. Shin is a recipient of the Korean

Ho-Am Prize The ''Ho-Am Prize'' (호암상, 湖岩賞, literally ''lake and rock award'') is a Korean annual award presented to "domestic/abroad ethnic Korean who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture and enhancement o ...

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

Education

Shin received a BS (1970) in electronic engineering from

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...

and an MS (1976) and a PhD (1978) in electrical engineering from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

Research interests

*Wireless real-time 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 University 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 A real-time database is a database system which uses real-time processing to handle workloads whose state is constantly changing. This differs from traditional databases containing persistent data, mostly unaffected by time. For example, a stock ma ...

s for embedded systems like automobiles, automated homes and factories
RTCL Alumni Tree

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shin, Kang G. University of Michigan faculty Living people 1946 births Cornell University alumni Seoul National University alumni South Korean computer scientists Recipients of the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering