January 31, 2006

Eun Receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Eun (Photo: Roger Winstead)

Dr. Do Young Eun, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective March 1, 2006. The Career award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $400,000 in funding over the next five years. Eun will use the funding to support his research project, “Career: A Stochastic Approach to the Design of Communication Networks: An Alternative to Fluid Modeling.” The aim of the research is to understand the fundamental limitations of the fluid-based approach and of the deterministic optimization for large networks and then to develop a stochastic framework for large networks in which one can compute the performance metrics more accurately, while at the same time exploiting the simplicity caused by the interaction among many users, seeking to obtain new, efficient design guidelines and algorithms for a number of important networking problems including congestion control, network optimization, and peer-to-peer networks.

In conjunction with the research component of the project, Eun has developed an education plan that emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach and motivates graduate/undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds to participate in this project.

Eun, who joined the College of Engineering in August 2003, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), in Taejon, Korea, in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 2003.

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