Select Publications

• Sergio Lujan-Mora, Juan Trujillo, and Il-Yeol Song, (2006). “A UML Profile for Multidimensional Modeling in Data Warehouses.” Data & Knowledge Engineering. V. 59, pp725-769, December 2006. (THE MOST WIDELY CITED paper among all the papers published in DKE between 2006 to July 2011, SCOPUS).
• Ornsiri Thonggoom, Il-Yeol Song, and Yuan An, “Semi-Automatic Conceptual Data Modeling Using Entity and Relationship Instance Repositories”, in the Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011), Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2011, pp. 219-232.
• James Dullea, Il-Yeol Song, and Ioanna Lamprou. “An Analysis of Structural Validity in Entity-Relationship Modeling," Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 47, No.3, 2003, pp. 167-205.
• Il-Yeol Song, Kurt Yano, Juan Trujillo and Sergio Luján-Mora. “A Taxonomic Class Modeling Methodology for Object-Oriented Analysis," In Information Modeling Methods and Methodologies, Advanced Topics in Databases Series, Ed. (J Krostige, T. Halpin, K. Siau), Idea Group Publishing, 2004, pp. 216-240.
• Trevor H. Jones and Il-Yeol Song. "Analysis of Binary/Ternary Cardinality Combinations in Entity-Relationship Modeling," Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 1(1996), pp. 39-64.

Grant Awards

• Co-PI of NSF I/UCRC, Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI) for ULL and Drexel, $675K (275K to Drexel and 400K to ULL), 02/15/2012-01/31/2017), Drexel (PI: Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Co-PIs: Yuan An, Il-Yeol Song, and Lisa Ulmer); ULL (PI: Vijay Raghavan, Co-PIs: Ramesh Kolluru, Carolina Cruz-Neira; Ryan Benton; Raju Gottumukkala).
• Acquisition of OLAP software called TARGIT 100 licenses for 3 years, $200,000. Jan. 2012-Dec 31, 2014. 

Awards & Recognition

• Named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2013.
• Elected as an ER Fellow in 2012 from the Steering Committee of International Conferences on Conceptual Modeling (ER Conference).
• Most Outstanding Instructor Award, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, June 2011.
• Christian R. and Mary Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award, Drexel University, May 2001.
• Senior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at Graduate Level, Drexel University, May 2000.
• Drexel Exemplary Teaching Award, Drexel University, October 6, 1992.
• THE MOST WIDELY CITED paper among all the papers published in Data & Knowledge Engineering between 2006 to July 2011, SCOPUS, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505608/description#description). (Sergio Luján-Mora, Juan Trujillo, and Il-Yeol Song, (2006). “A UML Profile for Multidimensional Modeling in Data Warehouses.” Data & Knowledge Engineering. V. 59, pp725-769, December 2006.)

Professional Activities & Associations

• Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE). (2007-Present)
• Steering Committee chair for ER conferences (2010-2012).
• Steering Committee member for International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp) (2013-Present).
• Steering Committee member for International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) (1995-2011).
• Founded and chaired ACM International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Online Analytic Processing (DOLAP) (1998-present)
• Chaired more than 20 int’l conferences and workshops (CIKM1999, ER2003, BP-UML2006, DAWAK2007-2008, CIKM2009, DESRIST 2009, MODIC2012, MOBID2013-2014, etc)
• Editorial board of 5 other journals (DKE, JDM, IJDS, IJECR, IJDFSL)
• Affiliated Professor, School of EE & CS, Division of Computer Science, KAIST, Korea 92008-Present)