Daehyeok Kim

Assistant Professor
Dr. Daehyeok Kim is an Assistant Professor at UT Computer Science. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from CMU and B.S. in computer science from POSTECH. His research interests lie in the intersection of systems and networking with a focus on building software systems that improve the performance, efficiency, and resiliency of data- and network-intensive applications running on emerging programmable infrastructure (e.g., programmable switches, NICs, and xPUs) at the edge and cloud.

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Daehyeok Kim, Vyas Sekar, and Srinivasan Seshan. ExoPlane: An Operating System for On-Rack Switch Resource Augmentation. In Proceedings of 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), February 2023.

Daehyeok Kim, Jacob Nelson, Dan Ports, Vyas Sekar, and Srinivasan Seshan. RedPlane: Enabling Fault-Tolerant Stateful In-Switch Applications. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM), August 2021.

Daehyeok Kim, Zaoxing Liu, Yibo Zhu, Changhoon Kim, Jeongkeun Lee, Vyas Sekar, and Srinivasan Seshan. TEA: Enabling State-Intensive Network Functions on Programmable Switches. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM), August 2020

Daehyeok Kim, Tianlong Yu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Yibo Zhu, Jitu Padhye, Shachar Raindel, Chuanxiong Guo, Vyas Sekar, and Srinivasan Seshan. FreeFlow: Software-based Virtual RDMA Networking for Containerized Clouds. In Proceedings of 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), February 2019.

Daehyeok Kim, Amirsaman Memaripour, Anirudh Badam, Yibo Zhu, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Jitu Padhye, Shachar Raindel, Steven Swanson, Vyas Sekar, and Srinivasan Seshan. HyperLoop: Group-Based NIC-Offloading to Accelerate Replicated Transactions in Multi-Tenant Storage Systems. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM conference (SIGCOMM), August 2018.

Awards & Honors

2019 - Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
2019 - Facebook PhD Fellowship Finalist
2018 - Bronze Award, the 24th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award
2016 - Qualcomm Innovation Awards