Professor

Gyuyeong Kim is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Sungshin Women's University. His research interests are networking and computer systems. He received his Ph.D. and B.S. in Computer Science from Korea University in 2020 and 2012, respectively. Before joining Sungshin Women's University, he was a Research Professor at Korea University. During undergraduate, he developed KLUE, a lecture evaluation service for Korea University. 

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Korea University, South Korea (2020)

• B.S. in Computer Science, Korea University, South Korea (2012)

• Exchange Student, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University, Sweden (2011)

Publications

See publications.

• In-Network Computing/Acceleration for AI/Cloud Systems 

  • In-network caching for variable-length key-value stores [NSDI'25]

  • In-network request cloning for microsecond-scale applications [SIGCOMM'23]

  • In-network data replication for distributed key-value stores [VLDB'22]

  • In-network head-of-line blocking mitigation for key-value stores [Access'23]

  • In-network quorum coordination for replicated storage [IEICE'23]

• Emerging Host Networking Stack and Network Interface Cards

  • eBPF/XDP-based replication coordinators [IEICE'25]

  • Hierarchical packet schedulers for multiqueue ethernet NICs in cloud data centers [IoTJ'22]

• Network Switch Mechanisms for Data Center Networks

  • ECN-agnostic service queue isolation for network policy enforcement [ICDCS'20/TCC'23]

  • Microburst mitigation without buffer headroom [TCC'22]

Academic Services

• Conference Organizing Committee

  • 2025: ICNP Local Co-Chair

  • 2024: CoNEXT Reproducibility Co-Chair

• Technical Program Committee

  • 2025: NSDI, CoNEXT, ICUFN

  • 2024: MASS, GLOBECOM

Invited Talks

• "Towards Network-Accelerated Distributed Systems", KIISE Computer System Society Winter Conference 2025, February 2025.

• "Leveraging Network Switches as Domain-Specific Accelerators for Distributed Storage," KIISE SWCC 2024, August 2024.

• "Advances and Impacts of SmartNICs in Modern Datacenters," Panel Session, IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024, May 2024.

• "NetClone: Fast, Scalable, and Dynamic Request Cloning for Microsecond-Scale RPCs", KIISE Korea Software Congress 2023, December 2023.

• "Network Switches as Domain-Specific Hardware for Distributed Storage", The 14th International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC 2023), October 2023.

• "In-Network Acceleration for Modern Data Center Systems", UNIST, September 2023.

• "P4 Switch Architecture", SDN/NFV Forum P4 WG 2020 1st Meetup, December 2020.

• "Tutorial: P4 SFC", SDN/NFV Forum P4 WG 2019 1st Meetup, April 2019.

• "Service Function Chaining in P4-enabled Programmable Switches", SDN/NFV Forum P4 WG 2018 2nd Meetup, October 2018

• "Controller-independent Loss-aware Low Latency State Migration in Network Functions Virtualization", ONOS-P4 Brigade Work Days 2017, September 2017.

Teaching

• Computer Networks (24F, 23F, 22F, 21S, 20S, 19F)

• Distributed Systems (25S, 24S, 23S)

• Computer Architecture (25S, 24S, 23S, 22S)

• Operating Systems (22F, 21F)

• Databases (22F)

• System Programming (22S)

• Java Programming (25S, 24S, 23S)

• Advanced Java Programming (24F, 23F)

• Advanced C++ Programming (23S)

• Convergence Capstone Design (24F, 23F, 22F)

Educational Services

• Department Chair (학과장), Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sungshin Women's University, Mar. 2023 - Feb. 2025

• Appointed Admissions Officer (위촉입학사정관), Sungshin Women's University, Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2025

Students

• Jiyoon Bang (M.S., 2023.09 ~ 2025.02)

• Jihyun Lee (M.S., 2023.09 ~ 2025.02)

  • Excellent Paper Award, KSC 2024

• Yuje Tak (M.S., 2024 Spring ~)

  • NRF M.S. Research Grant, 2024

• Jeongeun Kim (M.S., 2024 Fall ~)

  • ETRI Internship, 2023

• Eunjae Jo (B.S., 2024 Spring ~)

• Nakyung Lee (B.S., 2024 Spring ~)

  • ETRI Internship, 2024

Awards and Honors

• Excellent Paper Award, Korea Software Congress 2024, KIISE, 2024

• IEEE Seoul Section International Student Paper Contest Bronze Paper Award, 2014.

• Global Ph.D. Fellowship (GPF), NRF, South Korea, 2012-2014.

• Sun Microsystems JavaFX Software Contest 3rd Prize, 2009.

• ACM-ICPC Seoul Regional Contest 10th Place, 2009.

• National Collegiate Programming Contest Silver Prize, South Korea, 2009.

• ACM-ICPC Seoul Regional Contest Honorable Mentions, 2008.

Remarks

• Co-Founder and President at KLUE (Korea University Lecture Evaluation), April 2010 - February 2015.

  • KLUE is a lecture evaluation service for Korea University, which most students (99%+) at Korea University use today. I developed and maintained the service as the president.

  • ‘좋은 강의’와 ‘대학 강의 평가’, ppss(ㅍㅍㅅㅅ), December 10, 2015.

  • 강의의 모든 것, "명강의' '이화노트' 'KLUE', The Myungji Press (명대신문), April 20, 2013.

  • Students without Rights to Know, The Granite Tower, April 2, 2013.

  • 학생강의평가 사이트 "유용한데~", Daily UNN(한국대학신문), January 7, 2013.

  • 고려대, 총학이 강의평가한다, KTV(한국정책방송), January 12, 2012.