Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987
M.S., University of Michigan, 1984
B.S., University of Michigan, 1982
Biography
After spending three years at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies, Inc.), Professor Min joined the faculty at Washington University in 1990. Professor Min is an internationally known expert in the field of high speed communication.
At Bellcore, Professor Min was a lead systems engineer for the Bell Operating Companies in transitioning away from their voice centric networks at the time of the AT&T divesture, into multi-service capable networks suited for the Internet era. He was recognized for his contributions at Bellcore in 1990.
After coming to Washington University, Professor Min helped the development of a communication curriculum in the School of Engineering. He regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the electronics and communication areas. He also supervises students to conduct research in these areas. He is actively involved in the development of the curriculum for the Electrical and Systems Engineering and serves as an ambassador for the
McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Professor Min designed one of the earliest CDMA networks after winning a personal communication services license from the Korean Government through a highly competitive selection process. He has worked closely with NEC Electronics in Japan, LG Electronics in Korea, and Electronic and Telecommunication Research Institute in Korea. He consulted with major companies and organizations around the world, and co-founded two companies.
Additionally, Professor Min has been an organizer for several international symposiums, a guest editor of international journals, and has given a number of invited talks. He holds nine U.S. patents and published extensively in international conferences and journals.
Research
Professor Min's main research areas are switching, routing, performance control and security in the communication networks. For example, Professor Min and his students invented and implemented several methods of high performance switching, including multi-channel switches that alleviate the speed and performance constraints of electronic switches. The pattern matching engines that his research group developed are used for processing complex instructions embedded in communication packets at multiple gigabits per second rates. The content search engine that his research group developed has been incorporated into numerous cyber security systems in active networks. He is currently engaged in the development of resource management algorithms for the virtualized high performance cluster computing networks.