Miryung Kim

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
ACES 5.118, C5000
201 E 24th Street
Austin, TX 78712-0240
TEL: (512) 232-1501
FAX: (512) 471-5120
miryung@ece.utexas.edu

Administrative Support:
Ms. RoseAnna Goewey
TEL: (512) 232-3343

Research Interests

My research focuses on software engineering, specifically on software evolution. My research group, Software Evolution and Analysis Laboratory, develops program analysis algorithms and development tools to make it easier to develop and evolve large scale software systems. SEAL's mission is to improve programmer productivity and program correctness. My group designs, implements, and evaluates automated software analysis algorithms and tools. We also conduct user studies with professional software engineers and carry out quantitative, statistical analysis of open source project data to make sound data-driven decisions for designing novel software engineering tools.

You can read more about current research projects at SEAL. Many of my publications and software tools are available on-line.

Topics: Software engineering, software evolution

automated program transformation, refactoring (see our SYDIT project)
mining software archives, collaborative software development, human aspects of software engineering (see our CHIME project)
runtime verification, cyber-physical systems (see our BRACE project)
refactoring, empirical studies, software modularity (see our ReArch project)
code duplication and software forking (see our CLONE project)

Biography

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 under the supervision of Dr. David Notkin in 2003 and 2008 respectively. She was a visiting researcher at the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group at Microsoft Research during the summer of 2011. She received an NSF CAREER award, Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award in 2011, and IBM Jazz Innovation Award in 2009. She ranked No. 1 among all engineering and science students in KAIST in 2001 and received Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology Award, the highest honor given to an undergraduate student in Korea.

I am actively recruiting strong students who are interested in software engineering. I am interested in new colleagues at all levels: undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs.

News

Our paper on Vdiff is accepted to Journal of Automated Software Engineering.
Our paper on change rule inference is accepted to TSE.
Kim is joining a panel at the CRA Career Mentoring Workshop in DC.
Kim receives an NSF CAREER award.
NSF REU grant is awarded.
Kim is creating a new Software Engineering and Design Laboratory class, EE461L.
NSF CCF SHF grant is awarded.
Kim is visiting Microsoft Research, the RiSE (Research in Software Engineering) group.
Kim receives 2011 Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award.
Our paper on edit script derivation is accepted to PLDI 2011.
Our empirical study on refactoring and bug fixes is accepted to ICSE 2011.
Our paper on modularity violation detection is accepted to ICSE 2011.
A code clone study paper is accepted to FASE 2011.
A Verilog program differencing algorithm has won ACM SIGSOFT ASE 2010 Distinguished Paper Award.
NSF-SHF-EAGER grant is awarded.
Ref-Finder Eclipse plug-in is available now.