Jongyul Kim
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Savoy, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJongyul Kim is a systems researcher and postdoctoral research associate with 11 years of experience focused on the design and re‑architecture of system software. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Computer Science from KAIST—with hands‑on research appointments at KAIST and the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign to tackle performance, reliability, and systems architecture problems. His background spans both academia and industry, including co‑founding a software startup and early research internships, which gives him a practical sensibility for turning research prototypes into deployable systems. Based in Savoy, Illinois, he brings a long arc of continuity in systems research and an inclination to bridge theoretical rigor with engineering pragmatism, often exploring nonobvious tradeoffs between performance and maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (2)
distributed-file-system4
filesystem1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yulistic/oxbow-rpc
Mar 2023 - Apr 2026
RPC over RDMA.
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 1 month
yulistic/vim_config
Sep 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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