Miryung Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.S. in Computer Science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2001 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2003 and 2008 respectively.
Her research focus is in software engineering, specifically in software evolution and software analysis. Her goal is to improve programmers' productivity by developing analysis tools that help programmer build more reliable and easy-to-maintain software. She identifies software engineering research problems through user studies and mining software repositories. Based on these empirical analyses, she builds automated software engineering tools and infrastructures and evaluate them to show how those solutions can improve current software development practices.
Research Interests: Software engineering, software evolution, mining software repositories, semantic program differencing, code duplication, and human aspects of software development.
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