Daehyeok Kim
Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDaehyeok Kim is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin with nine years of experience bridging top-tier research and industry practice in networking and distributed systems. He earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon and spent multiple years at Microsoft Research and Azure for Operators as a researcher and senior researcher, turning academic insights into practical cloud and networking innovations. His background includes repeated research internships at Microsoft Research Asia and a research scientist role at KAIST during his military service, evidencing a long-standing international collaboration footprint. Known for blending rigorous theory with systems-building, he focuses on problems that matter to large-scale cloud operators while mentoring the next generation of systems researchers. Notably, his career path reflects a pattern of moving seamlessly between deep academic research and production-facing projects at major cloud providers.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Pohang University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Korean, English
Github Skills (34)
vlan7
ospf5
nfv5
spring5
network-tools4
freebsd4
altium-designer4
networking4
rates4
python4
dpdk4
byte4
bgp4
juniper4
timestamping3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
utadvnetworks/fa24
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
daehyeok-kim/daehyeok-kim.github.io
Jun 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:77 pushes in 10 months
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