SOHYUNG CHO, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 281 McArthur Building
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: 305-284-2370
Fax: 305-284-4040
scho@miami.edu

EDUCATION TEACHING RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS EXPERIENCE   SERVICE

EDUCATION:
        Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2000

        M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea

        B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea

TEACHING:
·         Computer-aided Manufacturing (IEN 406)

·         Production and Inventory Control (IEN 465)

·         Robotics (IEN 505)

·         Design for Manufacturing Systems (IEN 507)

·         Automated Assembly (IEN 509)

RESEARCH:
·         A unified control system for adaptive manufacturing enterprises

·         Scheduling and rescheduling of space shuttle ground processes

·         RFID in security and supply chain systems

·         Visual servo control system using stereo camera for industrial robots

·         Optimization of robotic welding process using support vector machine learning

·         Intelligent control of electron beam physical vapor deposition coating process

·         Intelligent monitoring system for machine tools using support vector regression

PUBLICATIONS:
·         Cho, S., Lewis, S., Prabhu, V., and Fuke, I. (2004), Intelligent automation of electron beam – physical vapor deposition (EB-PVD), Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Accepted for publication.

·         Cho, S., Asfour, S., Onar, A., Kaundinya, N. (2004), Tool breakage detection using support vector machine learning in a milling process, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacturing, in Press.

·         Cho, S. (2003), Distributed Time-Driven Simulation for Modeling, Analysis and Control of Manufacturing Shop-floor,    Computers and Industrial Engineering, Submitted.

·         Fuke, I., Prabhu, V. V., Cho, S., George, T., Singh, J. (2003), Rapid manufacturing of rhenium components using EB-PVD, Journal of Rapid Prototyping, Accepted for publication.

·         Cho, S., and Prabhu, V. V. (2002), A vector space model for variance reduction in single machine scheduling, IIE Transactions, 34, p. 933-952

·         Cho, S., and Prabhu, V. V. (2002), Sliding mode dynamics in continuous feedback control for distributed discrete-event scheduling, Automatica, 38(9), p. 1499-1515

·         Gougar, H., Cho, S., and Prabhu, V. V. (2002), High performance loading robot design in a tool delivery system, International Journal of Production Research, 40(14), p. 3401-3424

·         Cho, S, Lewis S., Prabhu, V. V., and Fuke, I. (2002), Intelligent automation of EB-PVD, Journal of Design and Manufacturing Automation, submitted

·         Cho, S. and Prabhu, V. V. (2001), Distributed control of machine capacity and production scheduling, Transactions of NAMRI/SME, Vol. 29, p. 501-508

·         Prabhu, V. V., Cho, S., and Koomsap, P. (1999), High performance computing and communication for real-time feedback in distributed manufacturing control systems, CIRP-Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 29(1), p. 79-83

EXPERIENCE:
Academic:

·         2003 – Present, Assistant Professor in Department of Industrial Engineering University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

·         2002 – 2003, Visiting Faculty in Department of Industrial Engineering University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

·         2001 – 2002, Postdoctoral Scholar in Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, PA

·         1997 – 2000, Research Assistant in Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, PA

Non-Academic:

·         1994 – 1996, Senior Researcher, Daesung R&D Center, Seoul, Korea

·         1991 – 1994, Research Associate, Daesung R&D Center, Seoul, Korea

SERVICE:
Professional Organizations

·         Instituteof Industrial Engineers (IIE)

·         Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME)

·         Member of College Council at University of Miami

·         Graduate Faculty in Department of Industrial Engineering