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Honors and Recognition

ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award, 2022

ACM Distinguished Member, 2021

Distinguished Lecture at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC) Computer Science, 2021

Distinguished Lecture at Cray Colloquium at University of Minnesota, Computer Science, 2021

Distinguished Reviewer Award, The 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2021

Keynote Speaker, The 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2019. ASE is one of the top 3 conferences in SE.

Humboldt Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2019

Doc Stevens Award for Outstanding Faculty-In-Residence, UCLA, 2018 

Distinguished Lecture at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) 2018

ACM Senior Member, 2016

Okawa Research Award, 2015

Google Research Award, 2014

Invited Speaker, Top Gun Series, University of Virginia Computer Science, 2013 –recognizes faculty on a trajectory to be the research leaders of the coming decades

NSF CAREER Award, 2011

Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award, 2011

IBM Jazz Innovation Award, 2009

Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Award, 2001---the highest honor given to an undergraduate student in Korea

Summa Cum Laude, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2001. Graduation Rank No 1.

Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies Graduate Fellowship, 2001 to 2006

Best Paper Awards

Most Influential Paper Award, 10-Year Retrospective Award at the 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2020)

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, The 25th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2010)

Nominated for ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2013)

Nominated for ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, The 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011)

Nominated for ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2005)

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