Dong-Chul Kim

dongchul.kim@utrgv.edu

EIEAB 3.244

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Director, Machine Intelligence Laboratory

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

 

Research Lab

https://miutrgv.github.io/

 

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

 

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington, 2014

M.S., Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington, 2007

B.S., Computer Science, Kyungsung University, 2003

 

Research Grant ($3M in total)

CAHSI-Google Institutional Research Program ($100,000)

Towards Robot Understanding Embodying Causal Graphical Models into Robotics (2023-2024), Co-PI


EPA - Border Protection Program ($91,900)

Salinity Forcasting (2022-2023), Co-PI


UTRGV - Research Seed Grant ($9,820)

Who is a better teacher? AI-based calibration of teaching quality (2022-2023), Co-PI


THECB - Accelerating Credentials of Purpose and Value Grant Program ($1,245,000)

Development of Micro-Credential program (2021-2022), Co-PI


Department of Defense (DoD) Ressearch and Education Program ($551,889)

Finding unmodeled signals in noisy big data: An integrated multi-disciplinary approach (2021-2022), Co-PI


NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program ($699,077)

MRI: Acquisition of a GPU-Accelerated Cluster, High Performance Rio Grande Valley Cluster (2020-2023), Co-PI


USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture ($330,930)

Applying Computer Vision Technologies To Honey Bee Health And Surveillance: Building Capacity in Agricultural Engineering at an HSI (2019~2022), PI


Texas General Land Office ($102,467)

Storm Surge Flood Maps Development for the Lower Laguna Madre Coastal Emergency Management (2018~2020), Co-PI

 

Teaching Courses

CSCI1101 Intro to CS, CSCI1370 CS I (C++), CSCI1380 CS I (Python)

CSCI3326 OOP in Java, CSCI3329 OOP in Python

CSCI4334 Operating Systems, CSCI4335 Computer Architecture

CSCI4352 Intro to Machine Learning, CSCI4341 Topics in CS: Intro to Deep Learning

CSCI4353 Intro to Deep Learning, CSCI6370 Topics in CS: Intro to Reinforcement Learning

CSCI6379 Intro to Deep Learning, CSCI4341 Topics in CS: Technical Interview

 

Fall 2023

Spring 2024

Summer I 2024

CSCI 6370 Intro to Reinforcement Learning

CSCI 3329 OOP in Python

CSCI 3329 OOP in Python

CSCI 4353 Intro to Deep Learning

 

CSCI 6379 Intro to Deep Learning

 

 

Fall 2022

Spring 2023

Summer II 2023

CSCI 4341 Technical Interview

CSCI 4341 Intro to Deep Learning

CSCI 4341 Intro to Deep Learning

 

 

CSCI 6379 Intro to Deep Learning

 

CSCI 6379 Intro to Deep Learning

 

Fall 2021

Spring 2022

 

CSCI 6352/4352 Machine Learning

CSCI 6379 Intro to Deep Learning


 

Fall 2020

CSCI 4341 Intro to Deep Learning

Spring 2021

 

Summer I 2021

CSCI 3329 OOP in Python

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 1380 Computer Science I (Python)

CSCI 4352 Machine Learning

CSCI 3329 OOP in Python

CSCI 3329 OOP in Python

 

Fall 2019

 

Spring 2020


CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 1370 Computer Science I


CSCI 4352 Machine Learning

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java


 

Fall 2018

 

Spring 2019

 

Summer I 2019

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 4352 Machine Learning

CSCI 4352 Machine Learning


 

Fall 2017

 

Spring 2018

 

Summer II 2018

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 4352 Machine Learning

CSCI 1370 Computer Science I


 

Fall 2016

 

Spring 2017

 

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java


CSCI 6334 Adv. Operating Systems

CSCI 6366 Data Mining


 

Fall 2015

 

Spring 2016

 

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java


CSCI 6175 Seminar in CS

CSCI 4352 Machine Learning


 

Fall 2014

 

Spring 2015

 

CSCI 1101 Introduction to CS

CSCI 3326 OOP in Java


CSCI 6334 Adv. Operating Systems  

CSCI 4335 Computer Architecture