Professor

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

Research Interests

• Distributed systems

• Networked systems

• LLMs for systems and networking

Education

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

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

• Exchange Student, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (2011)

Publications

See publications.

• Network-Accelerated Distributed Systems 

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

  • In-network multiget coordination for distributed key-value stores [CCGrid'25]

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

  • In-network data replication for distributed storage [VLDB'22]

• OS Kernel Stacks for Distributed Systems

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

  • In-Kernel hierarchical packet schedulers for commodity multiqueue NICs [IoTJ'22]

• Switch Buffer Management for Data Center Networks

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

  • Microburst mitigation without switch buffer headroom [TCC'22]

Projects

See projects.

Academic Services

• Conference Organizing Committee

  • 2025: ICNP Local Organization Co-Chair

  • 2024: CoNEXT Reproducibility Co-Chair

• Technical Program Committee

  • 2025: NSDI, CoNEXT, ATC (ERC), MASS, GLOBECOM, ICUFN

  • 2024: MASS, GLOBECOM

• External Reviewer

  • 2025: IWQoS, CLOUD

Invited Talks

• "In-Kernel Offloading with eBPF/XDP for High-Performance Networked Systems", KRNET 2025, June 2025.

• "Towards Network-Accelerated Computing Systems in the Era of Network Programmability", CSE/GSAI Seminar Series, POSTECH, March 2025.

• "Towards Network-Accelerated Computing Systems in the Era of Network Programmability", SoC Colloquium, KAIST, March 2025.

• "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", CSE Seminar Series, UNIST, September 2023.

Student Advising

• Jiyoon Bang (5th-year M.S., Fall 2022 - Fall 2024)

  • 1st author @ CCGrid'25 paper

  • ACM SIGCOMM 2022 Travel Grant

• Jihyun Lee (5th-year M.S., Fall 2022 - Fall 2024)

  • Outstanding Paper Award, KSC 2024

• Yuje Tak (M.S., Spring 2024 - Present)

  • NRF M.S. Research Grant, 2024

• Jeongeun Kim (5th-year M.S., Fall 2023 - Present)

  • ETRI Internship, 2023

• Eunjae Jo (M.S., Spring 2025 - Present)

• Nakyung Lee (5th-year M.S., Fall 2024 - Present)

  • ETRI Internship, 2024

Teaching

• Distributed Systems (Spring'23, Spring'24, Spring'25)

• Computer Networks (Fall'19, Spring'20, Spring'21, Fall'22, Fall'23, Fall'24, Fall'25)

• Computer Architecture (Spring'22, Spring'23, Spring'24, Spring'25)

• Operating Systems (Fall'21, Fall'22)

• Databases (Fall'22)

• System Programming (Spring'22)

• Java Programming (Spring'23, Spring'24, Spring'25)

• Advanced Java Programming (Fall'23, Fall'24, Fall'25)

• Advanced C++ Programming (Spring'22)

• Project Design (Fall'22)

• Convergence Capstone Design (Fall'23, Fall'24, Fall'25)

Educational Services

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

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

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Paper Award, Korea Software Congress (KSC) 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

• KLUE (Korea University Lecture Evaluation) is a lecture evaluation service used by most students at Korea University today. I developed the service with fellow students in April 2010, as requested by the 43rd Student Council, and ran the service as the president from January 2011 to February 2015. 

  • ‘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.