Summary
Kyu Woong is a professor and Ph.D. computer scientist with two decades of university teaching and a deep research portfolio in cluster file systems, database systems, and high-density image processing. He has authored 50+ papers, international patents, and book chapters, led government- and industry-funded projects (including surveillance motion detection, deduplicated backup systems, and Gel-Lit document systems), and completed hands-on system software work such as global buffer managers for SANique. Based in Pleasanton, CA, he balances ongoing adjunct and professorial roles across multiple U.S. colleges with a track record of international collaboration (visiting researcher roles at San Jose State and Hunter College and work at ETRI). His practical systems experience—spanning transaction management and SQL parsing to large-scale I/O benchmarking—complements a scholarly impact visible on Google Scholar. Notably, he has repeatedly translated academic innovations into deployable system components, bridging research and production.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Database, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Database at Sogang University
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at 서강대학교
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at 한국외국어대학교