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BEN CHOI

 

< Vita >

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Ohio State University, June 7, 1996

Dissertation: “Automata for Learning Sequential Tasks”

 

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Ohio State University, September 1988

Thesis: “Parallel Distributed Computer Architecture and

General Associative Memory for Artificial Intelligent Processing”        

 

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Ohio State University, August 1986

 

LICENSES:

Pilot, FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) certified (1993 to present)

Flying airplanes and helicopters

 

AWARDS:

Research Foundation of Louisiana Tech University, Certification of Commemoration

In recognition of accomplishments leading to the filing of a U.S. patent application (October 12, 2006)

 

Research Foundation of Louisiana Tech University, Certification of Commemoration

In recognition of accomplishments leading to the filing of a U.S. patent application (May 2, 2002)

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Member since 1988 for many years

 

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Member since 1982 for many years

         

HONORARY SOCIETIES:

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines)

 

Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society)

 

Tau Beta Pi (The Engineering Honor Society)

 

EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor (Tenured):

Computer Science, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana (9/05 – Present)

Continuing enthusiastically pursuit research, motivate and teach students, and actively provide services.

Visiting Scholar:

Department of Computer Science,

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China (11/06)

Work with Professor Dik Lun Lee on Search Engine Technology, Location-Based Systems, and Robotics.

Visiting Researcher:

School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,

The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (8/06 – 10/06)

Work with Professor Mark Reynolds on Temporal Logic, Multi-Agent Systems, and Semantic Web.

Visiting Scholar:

School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems,

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois (6/06 – 7/06)

Work with Professor Steven Lytinen on Semantic Web and Swarm Intelligence.

Technical Consultant:

ProGuard Technologies Inc., a start-up company based out of Monroe, Louisiana (6/05 – 8/05)

Provide expert advice in starting up an Information Technology company. Lead a development team in designing Cell Phone and GPS mobile products and services. 

Assistant Professor:

Computer Science, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana (9/99 – 8/05)

Enthusiastically pursuit research, motivate and teach students, and actively provide services.

System Performance Engineer:

Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs Innovations, formerly AT&T Bell Labs, Columbus, Ohio (7/97-8/99)

Work on Network Configuration Management Systems for wire-line and wireless networks, evaluate and responsible for the overall performance, specify hardware and software architectures to meet performance requirements.

Machine Learning Research:

Ph.D. Research Project, The Ohio State University (1/91-6/97)

Create a new learning system and develop new algorithms for learning, adapting, and handling information.

Artificial Intelligence Research:

Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University (9/88-12/90)

Design hardware architecture for a new AI machine - a Prolog machine.

Computer Consultant:

Academic Computing Services, The Ohio State University (6/88-12/89)

Solve computer problems for faculties, staffs, and students, and provide advice on Windows, MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh, Amiga, and UNIX operating systems.

Software Development:

Department of Engineering Graphic,The Ohio State University (9/86-12/87)

Develop special graphic communication programs by using digitized images and speech processing techniques. 

Parallel Distributed Computer Architectures and Circuits Research:

Master of Science Research Project, The Ohio State University (8/86-9/88)

Develop parallel and distributed computer architectures and design an Application Specific Integration Circuit (ASIC), a general associative memory, for information retrieval.

 

PATENTS:

Inventor: Ben Choi, United States Patent # 10,795,854

Invention: Method and Apparatus for Constructing Multivalued Microprocessor

Patent Issued: October 6, 2020

~ Invent whole new technologies for building computers

 

Inventor: Ben Choi, United States Patent # 8,473,532

Invention: Method and Apparatus for Automatic Organization for Computer Files 

Patent Issued: June 25, 2013

~ Invent new methods for automatic organization of computer files and webpages.

 

Inventor: Ben Choi, United States Patent # 7,134,082

Invention: Method and Apparatus for Individualizing and Updating a Directory of Computer Files

Patent Issued: November 7, 2006

~ Invent new ways for people to use the Internet (My Internet). << Executive Summary

~This patent has successfully been commercialized.

 

BOOKS:

* Ben Choi, Humanoid Robots,

ISBN 978-953-7619-44-2, hard, 388 pages, In-Tech Education and Publishing, 2009.

~ Edited a book on the current leading researches and challenges in building humanoid robots.

~ Hard copies sold out. << Download the entire book

 

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Andrey Timofeyev and Ben Choi, “Knowledge Based System for Composing Sentences to Summarize Documents,”

Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, pp. 164-183, 2019.

 

* Ben Choi, “Humanoid Robotic Language and Virtual Reality Simulation,”

Humanoid Robots, In-Tech Education and Publishing, chapter I, pp. 1-20, 2009.

~ Described the development of a humanoid robotic language and the creation of a virtual reality system for the simulation of humanoid robots.

 

* Ben Choi and Zhongmei Yao, “Web Mining by Automatically Organizing Web Pages into Categories,”

Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Agent Technology, and Collaborative Applications, Idea Group Inc (IGI), chapter XII, pp. 214-231, 2008.

~ Described the state of the art techniques for Web mining.

 

* Ben Choi and Zhongmei Yao, “Web Page Classification,” << Abstract

Foundations and Advances in Data Mining, Springer-Verag, chapter: pp. 221 - 274, 2005. << Full Text

~ Described the state of the art techniques and subsystems used to build automatic Web page classification systems.

 

JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:

Sonali Bais & Ben Choi, “Developing a Search Engine for Social Networks,

ICKEA and ICFET 2022: The 8th International Conference on Frontiers of Educational Technologies, June 2022.


* Ben Choi, “Knowledge Engineering the Web,”

International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing (IJMLC)
, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 68-76, Jan. 2021.
~ Developed a system for Knowledge Engineering the Web by applying search engine, classification, and summarization technologies.

 

Anna Bobunova and Ben Choi, “New Educational Objectives and Methodologies for the Information Age,”

In 2021 The 7th International Conference on Frontiers of Educational Technologies (ICFET 2021), June 04– 07, 2021,

 

* Ben Choi, Andrey Timofeyev, Anna Bobunova, “Teaching Computers to Read, Understand, and Write Human Languages,”

Proceedings of Languages and Migration in a Globalized World, pp.92 - 103, Dec, 2020.

 

Andrey Timofeyev and Ben Choi, “Building a Knowledge Based Summarization System for Text Data Mining,”

Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, pp. 118-133, 2018

~ Created a system for text data mining.

~ Supervised a Ph.D. Dissertation on Knowledge Engineering.

 

Andrey Timofeyev and Ben Choi, “Knowledge based Automatic Summarization,”

Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2017) - Volume 1: KDIR, pages 350-356 ISBN: 978-989-758-271-4, 2017

~ Developed a knowledge base system for document summarization.

 

* Ben Choi, “Designing the First Many-valued Logic Computer,”

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol.6, No.5, pp. 417-424, September 2017.

~ Proposed to create a whole new type of computer based on many-valued logic.

 

* Ben Choi, Rong Zheng, and Kankana Shukla, “Realizing Many-Valued Logic for Computation,”

International Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Vol 4. No. 4, pp. 277-283, August 2016.

~ Developed special many-valued logic circuits to be used for computation.

 

* Ben Choi and Kankana Shukla, “Multi-Valued Logic Circuit Design and Implementation,”

International Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 256-262, 2015.

~ Created new methodologies for designing multivalued logic circuits. 

 

Kankana Shukla and Ben Choi, “Web Page Advertisement Classification,”

International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, pp.54-58, Vol.6, No.1, February 2014.

~ Utilized classification methodologies for advertisement.

 

Kankana Shukla and Ben Choi, “Humanoid Robot Interactions by Motion Description Language and Dialogue,”

International Journal of Electrical Energy, pp.86-91, Vol.1, No.2, June 2013.

~ Created a programming language to command humanoid robot movements.

 

* Ben Choi, “Advancing from Two to Four Valued Logic Circuits,”

IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2013), February 2013. ~ Proposed to move from two valued (0 and 1) to four valued (0, 1, 2, and 3) for designing circuits for computation.

 

* Ben Choi and Xiancong Xiong, “Finding Updated Webpages on the Internet,”

International Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT 2012), November 2012.

~ Developed methods for finding any webpages that have been currently updated.

 

* Ben Choi, “Multiagent Social Computing,”

International Journal of Web Portals, 3(4), 56-68, October-December 2011.

~ Proposed a framework for extending social networks to social computing.

 

* Ben Choi and Surya Bingi, “Distributed Cloud Computing,”

IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing (AC 2011), pp. 441-445, November 2011.

~ Developed a new distributed cloud computing system.

~ Supervised a master practicum on Cloud Computing.

 

* Ben Choi, “My Internet,”

The 2010 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining, pp. 171-175, October 2010.

~ Developed a new Search Engine that provides new technologies for people to use the Internet.

 

* Ben Choi, “Multiagent Workgroup Computing,”

The IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS 2010), pp.75-82, November 2010.

~ Created new technologies for networked computers to work together as a workgroup.

 

* Ben Choi and Xiaomei Huang, “Creating New Sentences to Summarize Documents,”

The 10th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Application (AIA 2010), pp. 458-463, February 2010.

~ Developed the first summarization system that is able to create new sentences to summarize documents.

~ Supervised a Ph.D. Dissertation on Artificial Intelligence.

 

* Ben Choi and Sumit Tyagi, “Ranking Web Pages Relevant to Search Keywords,”

The IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet, pp.200-205, November 2009.

~ Developed new methods for ordering the Web pages returned from search engines.

~ Supervised a master thesis on Information Technology.

 

* Ben Choi and Raj Chukkapalli, “Applying Machine Learning Methods for Time Series Forecasting,”

The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp.20-29, February 2009.

~ Proposed new methods on learning from time series data and on using learned models for forecasting.

~ Supervised a master thesis on Machine Learning.

 

* Ben Choi and Xiaomei Huang, “Web Page Summarization by Using Concept Hierarchies,”

International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2009), pp.281-286, January 2009.

~ Created a summarization system that can abstract key concepts and can extract key sentences to summarize text documents including Web pages.

 

Guangyu Chen & Ben Choi, “Web Page Genre Classification,” 
The 23rd annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 2353-2357, March 2008.

~ Developed new methods for classifying Web pages based on genre.

~ Supervised a master thesis on Web mining.

 

* Ben Choi and Kunal Tipnis, “New Components for Building Fuzzy Logic Circuits,” 
Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2007) Vol.2, pp. 586-590, 2007.
~ Designed new components for Fuzzy computing.

 

Yingheng Zhou & Ben Choi, “Virtual Reality Simulation of Humanoid Robots,” 
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) 33rd Annual Conference, pp. 2772-2777, 2007.
~ Developed a virtual reality system to simulate humanoid robots.

 

Zhongmei Yao & Ben Choi, “Clustering Web Pages into Hierarchical Categories,”
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, Special Issue on Web Mining, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.17-35, April-June, 2007.
~ Developed a new system for Web Mining through automatic Web page clustering.

 

Xiaogang Peng & Ben Choi, “Document Classifications Based On Word Semantic Hierarchies,”

The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp.362-367, 2005.

~ Propose new methods to automatically classify documents based on the meanings of words and the relationships between groups of meanings or concepts.

~ Supervised a Ph.D. Dissertation on applied Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology.

 

Zhongmei Yao & Ben Choi, “Automatically Discovering the Number of Clusters in Web Page Datasets,”
The 2005 International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 3-9, 2005.
~ Discovered a constant factor that characterizes the Web domain.
~ Proposed a new method for automatically determining the number of clusters in Web page datasets.

 

* Ben Choi and Xiaogang Peng, “Dynamic and Hierarchical Classification of Web Pages,”

Online Information Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 139-147, 2004.

~ Proposed algorithms for document classification by using single-path search and dynamically expanding category tree.

 

* Ben Choi and Rohit Dhawan, “Agent Space Architecture for Search Engines,”

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, pp. 521-525, 2004.

~ Proposed a new agent and network based architecture for parallel and distributed computing and for search engine cluster systems.

~ Supervised a master thesis on parallel and distributed computing.

 

Sanjay Baberwal & Ben Choi, “Speeding up Keyword Search for Search Engines,”
The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology, pp. 255-260, 2004.

~ Proposed new schemes for organizing and searching keywords in a large database.

~ Supervised a master thesis on information retrieval.

 

Vidyasagar Vasamsetty, David M. Coppola, Charles J. Robinson, Kerrie Tainter, & Ben Choi,
Analyses of Rotational Singularities in Ferret Visual Cortex,”

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEMBS) 26th Annual International Conference, vol. 2, pp. 4429-4432, 2004.

~ Co-supervising, with Prof. Charles Robinson, a master thesis on pattern recognition.

 

* Ben Choi, “Inductive Inference by Using Information Compression,”

Computational Intelligence 19 (2), 164-185, 2003.

~ Created methods for inducing models from examples by using information compression.

~ Developed an Automated Inductive Machine based on Kolmogorov complexity and minimum descriptive length principle.

 

* Ben Choi and Qing Guo, “Applying Semantic Links for Classifying Web Pages,”
Developments in Applied Artificial Intelligence, IEA/AIE 2003, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2718, pp. 148-153, 2003

~ Proposed methods for classifying web pages by using the web pages and their link structures.

~ Developed a new classifier that is suitable for classifying short web pages.

 

Zhongmei Yao & Ben Choi, “Bidirectional Hierarchical Clustering for Web Mining,”
IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, pp. 620-624, 2003.

~ Proposed algorithms for clustering information.

~ Supervised a master thesis on Web Mining.

 

* Ben Choi and Rohit Dhawan, “Distributed Object Space Cluster Architecture for Search Engines,”

High Availability and Performance Computing Workshop, 2003.

~ Proposed a new cluster architecture for parallel and distributed computing.

 

* Ben Choi, “Applying Learning by Example for Digital Design Automation,”

Applied Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 205-221, 2002.

~ Created methods for applying machine learning techniques for designing digital circuits.

~ Developed systems for transforming high-level behavior specifications to VLSI fabrications.

 

* Ben Choi and Baolin Li, “Abstracting Keywords from Hypertext Documents,”
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 137-142, 2002.

~ Proposed techniques for automatically summarizing a document by using keywords and synonyms.

~ Supervised a master practicum on Knowledge Engineering.

 

Xiaogang Peng & Ben Choi, “Automatic Web Page Classification in a Dynamic and Hierarchical Way,”

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 386-393, 2002.

~ Proposed algorithms for information classification by using single-path search and dynamically expanding category tree.

~ Supervised a master thesis on Data Mining.

 

* Ben Choi and Chaoyang Zhang, “Component-Based Distributed Computing for Numerical Simulation,”
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, pp. 2143-2149, 2002.

~ Applying Microsoft distributed component-based system for numerical simulations.

~ Supervised a master practicum on Parallel and Distributed Processing.

 

* Ben Choi and Yanbing Chen, “Humanoid Motion Description Language,”
International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, pp. 21-24, 2002.

~ Proposed frameworks for developing a computer language to describe motions of humanoid robots and virtual actors.

~ Supervised a master practicum on Virtual Reality and Robotics.

 

Wen Tian, & Ben Choi, and Vir Phoha, “An Adaptive Web Cache Access Predictor Using Neural Network,”
Developments in Applied Artificial Intelligence, IEA/AIE 2002, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2358, pp. 450-459, 2002.

~ Applying Neural Networks for improving the speed of web access by using advanced pre-fetching and caching methods. 

~ Supervised a master practicum on applied Neural Networks.

 

* Ben Choi and Nakul Bharade, “Network Traffic Reduction by Hypertext Compression,”
International Conference on Internet Computing, pp. 877-882, 2002.

~ Proposed new mechanism for reducing networking traffic by three levels of compressing HTML files.

~ Supervised a master practicum on Internet Computing.

 

* Ben Choi, “Making Sense of Search Results by Automatic Web-page Classifications,”
WebNet 2001 -- World Conference on the WWW and Internet, pp.184-186, 2001.

~ Proposed strategies for automatically classifying Internet web pages using three types of information.

 

* Ben Choi, “Automata for Learning Sequential Tasks,”
New Generation Computing: Computing Paradigms and Computational Intelligence, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 23-54, 1998.

~ Created a new learning system.

~ Developed new algorithms for learning, adapting, and handling information.

           

* Ben Choi and Dik Lee, “Generic Associative Memory for Information Retrieval,”

Database Machines: IWDM’89, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 368, Springer-Verlag, pp. 202-214, 1989.

~ Created special circuits for parallel searching.

~ Designed an Application Specific Integration Circuit (ASIC) for information retrieval.

 

Manjula Waldron & Ben Choi, “Text to Fingerspelling and Speech on the Amiga Micro-computer,” 

IEEE Ninth Annual Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp.1769-1770, 1987.

~ Developed a special graphic program for assisting communications for hearing-impaired persons.

~ Used digitized images and speech processing techniques.

 

REPORTS:

Michael J. McShane, Jason Gardner, & Ben Choi, “Multi-Sensor Probe For Cardiovascular Diagnostics”
Institute for Micromanufacturing, white paper, Louisiana Tech University, May 2000.

~ Catheter-based Deployment of Micromachined Sensor Arrays.

 

Dik Lee & Ben Choi, “Two Papers on Text-Retrieval and AI Machines,”
Technical Research Report, Computer and Information Science Research Center, OSU-CISRC-3/89-TR12, 1989.

~ Design a new Artificial Intelligent Machine (a Prolog machine).
~ Use Spice program to simulate specially designed associative memory.
~ Use Magic program to do VLSI layouts.

 

* Ben Choi, “Automata for Learning Sequential Tasks,” Ph.D. Dissertation,

Doctoral Thesis, The Ohio State University, June 1996.

~ Create a new learning system.
~ Develop new algorithms for learning, adapting, and handling information.
~ Use C/C++ to implement a new learning simulator.

 

* Ben Choi, “Parallel Distributed Computer Architecture and General Associative Memory for Artificial Intelligent Processing,”
Master Thesis, The Ohio State University, September 1988.

~ Develop Parallel Distributed Computer Architectures.
~ Design a General Associative Memory for Artificial Intelligent Processing.

 

PRESENTATIONS:

Keynote and Plenary Speeches:

* Ben Choi, keynote speech: “Knowledge Engineering the Web,”

In the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Applications Beijing, China, June 2019

 

* Ben Choi, keynote speech: “Designing the First Many-valued Logic Computer,”

In the International Conference on Measurement Instrumentation and Electronics, Munich, Germany during. June 2016.

 

* Ben Choi, plenary Speech: “Realizing Many-Valued Logic for Computation,”

In the International Conference on Control, Robotics and Cybernetics, August 2015

  

Conference Presentations:

* Ben Choi presenting “Developing a Search Engine for Social Networks,”
In ICKEA and ICFET 2022: The 8th International Conference on Frontiers of Educational Technologies, June 2022.

* Ben Choi presenting “Teaching Computers to Read, Understand, and Write Human Languages”,
In QS SFS Modern Languages & Linguistics, Dec. 15-17, 2020.

* Ben Choi, presenting “Knowledge based Automatic Summarization,”

In the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, Maderia Portugal, November 2017.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Advancing from Two to Four Valued Logic Circuits,”

In the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2013), February 2013.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Distributed Cloud Computing,”

In the IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing (AC 2011), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 6-8, 2011.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “My Internet,”

In the 2010 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining, Sanya, China, October 23-24, 2010.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Multiagent Workgroup Computing,”

In the The IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS 2010), Perth, Australia, November 29 - December 1, 2010.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Creating New Sentences to Summarize Documents,”

In the 10th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2010), Innsbruck, Austria, February 15-17, 2010.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Ranking Web Pages Relevant to Search Keywords,”

In the IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet, Rome, Italy, November 19-22, 2009.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Applying Machine Learning Methods for Time Series Forecasting,”

In the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria, February 16-18, 2009.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Web Page Summarization by Using Concept Hierarchies,”

In the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2009), Porto, Portugal, January 19-21, 2009.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “New Components for Building Fuzzy Logic Circuits,”

In Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2007), Haikou, China, August 24-27, 2007.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Automatically Discovering the Number of Clusters in Web Page Datasets,”

In the 2005 International Conference on Data Mining, as part of the 2005 World Congress in Applied Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, June 20-23, 2005.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Document Classifications Based On Word Semantic Hierarchies,”

In The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, as part of
The 23rd IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, February 14-16,
2005.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Speeding up Keyword Search for Search Engines,”
In The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, November 22-24, 2004.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Agent Space Architecture for Search Engines,”

In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Bidirectional Hierarchical Clustering for Web Mining,”

In IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, Halifax, Canada, October 13-16, 2003.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Applying Semantic Links for Classifying Web Pages,”

In The 16th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Loughborough, UK, June 23-26, 2003.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Distributed Object Space Cluster Architecture for Search Engines,”

In High Availability and Performance Computing Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA, October 27, 2003.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Automatic Web Page Classification in a Dynamic and Hierarchical Way,”

In The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Maebashi City, Japan, December 9-12, 2002.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “An Adaptive Web Cache Access Predictor Using Neural Network,”

In The Fifteenth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, Cairns, Australia, June 17-20, 2002.


* Ben Choi, presenting “Making Sense of Search Results by Automatic Web-page Classifications,”

In WebNet 2001: World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Orlando, Florida USA, October 23-27, 2001.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Generic Associative Memory for Information Retrieval,”

In The Sixth International Workshop on Database Machines, Deauville, France, June 19-21,1989.

 

* Ben Choi, presenting “Text to Fingerspelling and Speech on the Amiga Micro-Computer,”
In The IEEE Ninth Annual Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, MA USA, November 13-16, 1987.

 

 

< Teaching >

20

Years of teaching at Louisiana Tech University

1000

PowerPoint slides developed for hardware, software, and algorithm courses

2

New courses developed on designing new computer and on advanced problem-solving using computer (working on 2 textbooks)

14

Courses taught, ranging from software design, digital design, computer architecture, programming language, algorithm, senior capstone, to advanced graduate courses

3

Ph.D. students supervised and graduated

35

Master of Science students (thesis and practicum) supervised and graduated

< Research >

2

Patents granted and commercialized on search engine technology and on automatic organization of computer files

1

Patent pending on creating a new type of computer (many-valued computer)

1

Book on Humanoid Robots

4

Book chapters on Knowledge engineering, Virtual reality simulation, Web mining, and Classification

42

Journal and conference articles, including papers on AI, machine learning, robotics, knowledge engineering, search engine, cloud computing, and computer architecture.

3

Keynote and plenary speeches on knowledge engineering and on building a new type of computer

22

Conference presentations, representing LaTech all over the world

< Service >

1

Special Executive Committee for establishing the Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology (CEnIT)

1

Year serving as university senator, leadership team associate (2 quarters)

15

Years serving as faculty advisor and founder of the LaTech Robotics Club, organized LaTech robot competitions for many years

1

Live TV show on Good Morning Ark-La-Miss promoting local interests on robotic technology

3

Journals as editorial board member for consumer electronics time, journal of engineering and technology, and journal of advanced robotic systems

4

Journals as reviewer, including IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics and ACM Computing Surveys


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