Kihong Park

  Associate Professor    |    Department of Computer Science    |    Purdue University

Research Biography

Prof. Park's research centers on design and control of high-speed multimedia networks including deployable IP QoS, scalable network security, and robust distributed systems.

He has published in major networking venues including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE ICNP, and IEEE INFOCOM, and has edited two books "Self-Similar Network Traffic and Performance Evaluation" (Wiley-Interscience 2000) and "The Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System" (Oxford University Press 2005) with Walter Willinger at AT&T Research. His doctoral thesis, "Ergodicity and mixing rate of one-dimensional cellular automata" (advisor: Peter Gacs), concerned a problem in probability theory going back to John von Neumann, with applications to fault-tolerance in large-scale distributed systems.

Prof. Park was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, a Fellow-at-Large of the Santa Fe Institute, a Presidential University Fellow at Boston University, and served on several international program committees and government panels. He was chair of the NSF/SFI Workshop "The Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System," held at the Santa Fe Institute in March 2001. He served on the editorial boards of Computer Networks and IEEE Communications Letters. His research has been supported by grants from government and industry including ARO, DARPA, ETRI, Intel, NSF, NSRI, SFI, Sprint, and Xerox.