Miryung Kim

Biography

Miryung Kim is a Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science at UCLA. She has taken a leadership role in defining the emerging area of Software Engineering with and for AI.  Her current research focuses on developer tools for big data systems and heterogeneous computing. She is one of pioneers in the field of mining software repositories, leveraging AI-driven insights for developer productivity. Her group created automated testing and debugging for Apache Spark. She conducted the largest scale study of data scientists. Her group's Java bytecode debloating JDebloat made a tech transfer impact to Navy.

She received her BS from KAIST and MS and PhD from University of Washington under the supervision of David Notkin. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, moved to UCLA as an Associate Professor with tenure in 2014, and was promoted to a Full Professor in 2019. She spent time as a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research. She is an Amazon Scholar at Amazon Web Services.

She produced 7 professors (Columbia, Purdue, two at Virginia Tech, etc). For her impact on nurturing the next generation of academics, she received the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award. She was a Program Co-Chair of FSE 2022, one of top 2 conferences in SE. She was a Keynote Speaker at ASE 2019 and ISSTA 2022. She gave Distinguished Lectures at CMU, UIUC, etc. 

• Distinguished Lecture at CMU: SE4AI - Lessons from SE for Big Data and HW Heterogeneity (news, link)
  
• ISSTA Keynote: Software Tools for Democratizing Heterogeneous Computing (video, slides, news)
  
• Distinguished Lecture at UIUC: Software Engineering for Big Data Analytics (video)
• ASE Keynote: Software Engineering in a Data-Centric World (slides, news)
  

Advising: My former PhD students are professors at Columbia University (Bashakhi Ray), Virginia Tech (Na Meng), Virginia Tech (Muhammad Gulzar), and Purdue University (Tianyi Zhang). 3 are NSF CAREER  winners.

Awards and Honors: I received an ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award, ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, 10 Year Most Influential Paper Award from ICSME, an NSF CAREER award, a Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award, an IBM Jazz Innovation Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, and an Okawa Foundation Research Award. I am a Humboldt Fellow from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and I am an ACM Distinguished Member. Details on awards.

History: I graduated as No. 1 among all students in KAIST and received the Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology Award, the highest honor given to an undergraduate student in Korea.

Diversity: I am recognized for my impact on diversity and inclusion at UCLA. I have been a faculty-in-residence for 8 years. I received the Robert Stevensen Faculty in Residence Award and Faculty/Staff of the Year Award (given to 1 faculty in each year). I created Mommy Computer Science Camp, featured in PC Magazine. 

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