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Minseok Ryu | Energy and Sustainability | Best Researcher Award

Assist Prof Dr Minseok Ryu, Arizona State University, United States

Dr. Minseok Ryu is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State Universityโ€™s School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence since August 2023 ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2020 ๐ŸŽ“. His research focuses on optimization and machine learning applications in power systems and privacy-preserving federated learning ๐Ÿ”โšก. Dr. Ryu has held positions at Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory ๐Ÿข. He has received numerous awards, including the 2024 Alliance Fellowship at Mayo Clinic and ASU and multiple research highlights from the DOE-ASCR ๐ŸŒŸ.

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Education

Minseok Ryu holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, which he completed in May 2020 ๐ŸŽ“. Before that, he earned an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, in February 2014 ๐Ÿš€. His academic journey began with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from KAIST, which he obtained in February 2012 โœˆ๏ธ.

Employment

Minseok Ryu is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ (Aug 2023โ€“present) ๐Ÿ“š. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Appointee at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL (Aug 2020โ€“Jul 2023) ๐Ÿ”ฌ. He also worked as a Research Assistant with the Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (May 2019โ€“Aug 2019) ๐Ÿงช. Additionally, he served as a Post Baccalaureate Research Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (Nov 2014โ€“Apr 2015) ๐ŸŽ“.

Honors & Awards

Minseok Ryu has achieved numerous accolades throughout his career. In 2024, he was honored as an Alliance Fellow by the Mayo Clinic and ASU Alliance for Health Care and participated in the Faculty Summer Residency program. His research was highlighted by the Department of Energyโ€™s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (DOE-ASCR) in both 2023 and 2022. Ryu received the Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant in 2016 and multiple fellowships from the University of Michigan in 2015. Additionally, he earned the National Science Foundation Student Award from INFORMS Computing Society. Earlier, he received the National Scholarship from the Korean government (2010-2013) and accolades from KAIST, including the Department Honor and Best Technical Poster Award in 2010. ๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ“Š

Presentations

Minseok Ryu has made significant contributions to various fields, presenting his research at numerous esteemed conferences. His work includes heuristic algorithms for geomagnetically induced current blocking devices (Paris, June 2024) ๐ŸŒโšก, generating columns (Phoenix, Oct 2023) ๐Ÿ“, and differentially private algorithms for constrained federated learning (Seattle and Amsterdam, 2023) ๐Ÿ”’๐Ÿค–. He has also focused on privacy-preserving federated learning frameworks (Arlington, Aug 2022; Virtual, June 2022) ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ๐Ÿ“ก. Additionally, he has explored optimal power flow control, transmission expansion planning, and robust optimization in healthcare staffing across various platforms including INFORMS, SIAM, and international symposiums ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿง‘โ€โš•๏ธ

Research focus

Minseok Ryu’s research primarily focuses on data-driven optimization and privacy-preserving techniques, particularly in federated learning and power systems. His work spans several areas, including robust optimization under uncertainty, privacy-preserving distributed control, and federated learning frameworks. Key applications include improving nurse staffing models, optimizing electric grids against geomagnetic disturbances, and developing secure frameworks for federated learning in biomedical research. Ryu’s contributions are significant in ensuring privacy and robustness in distributed systems and optimization problems. ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ”’๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ”‹๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โš•๏ธ

Publication top notes

Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Appointment Scheduling over Wasserstein Balls

APPFL: Open-Source Software Framework for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Control of Optimal Power Flow

An extended formulation of the convex recoloring problem on a tree

Nurse Staffing under Absenteeism: A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach

Differentially private federated learning via inexact ADMM with multiple local updates

Mitigating the Impacts of Uncertain Geomagnetic Disturbances on Electric Grids: A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach

Algorithms for Mitigating the Effect of Uncertain Geomagnetic Disturbances in Electric Grids

Development of an Engineering Education Framework for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

Enabling End-to-End Secure Federated Learning in Biomedical Research on Heterogeneous Computing Environments with APPFLx

Minseok Ryu | Energy and Sustainability | Best Researcher Award

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