Dr. Hyong Kim

Biography

Professor Hyong Kim is currently the Drew D. Perkins Chaired Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has taught since 1990. He received his B.Eng. (Honours) degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, followed by M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto. His primary research areas include advanced switching architectures, fault-tolerant network designs, reliable and secure computer systems, distributed computing, and network management systems. He developed the Tera ATM switch architecture and facilitated its commercialization through partnerships with AMD and Samsung. In 1995, he founded Scalable Networks, a Gigabit-Ethernet switching startup, which was acquired by FORE Systems in 1996. He later founded AcceLight Networks and served as its CEO until 2002. Kim also established and directed CyLab Korea, an international cooperative research center at Carnegie Mellon from 2004 to 2008. He is the author of 130 published papers and holds 10 patents in networking and computing technologies.

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