Sunshin Lee, PhD, is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. Prior to UIS, he served as a tenure-track assistant professor at Radford University in Virginia, where he taught courses in Big Data Analytics and Distributed Databases. Before obtaining his Ph.D., he worked as a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence engineer at LG CNS in South Korea, where he led projects and managed DW/OLAP systems.
His research interests include Big data (Hadoop/Spark) analytics, machine learning, distributed databases (NoSQL), geo-locating with social media texts, information retrieval, and digital libraries. To establish a robust 'Big Data Research Infrastructure and Data Hub' that supports UIS faculty and researchers in the collection, processing, and analysis of large research data, he has constructed multiple computer clusters, including a 12-node Kubernetes (K8s) cluster with 8 GPUs and an 11-node Hadoop cluster, along with dedicated collection servers, all initiated since 2019. Recently, he and his colleagues received a $100,000 award from the UIS Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) to establish the AI and Data Analytics Center (AIDAC), which includes building a K8s cluster with GPUs for AI and data analytics. He has also systematically collected and crawled data from tweets (11 billion tweets), webpages (4.8 million pages), and various datasets related to disasters, emergencies, shootings, social activities, political events, and technologies.
He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses, including Bigdata analytics, Data Mining, NoSQL databases, Containerization for Bigdata, Advanced database concepts, Introduction to database systems, and Data structures and algorithms.