Daehyeok Kim
Assistant Professor
Research
- Computer networks
- Operating systems
- Distributed systems
Prof. Kim's research builds abstractions and runtime systems for programmable, virtualized, and heterogeneous computing infrastructures across edge and cloud datacenters. His current projects include:
- Programming and Operating Systems for In-Network Computing
- 5G Edge Computing for Real-Time Interactive Applications
- Secure and Resilient 5G Infrastructure
- Realistic Synthetic Data Generation for Datacenter Applications
Select Publications
Donghyun Kim, Zichao Hu, Joydeep Biswas, Aditya Akella, Daehyeok Kim. Mimesys: Generating Realistic Executable Testing Environments from Resource Usage Traces. In Proceedings of 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), July 2026.
Xiao Zhang, Daehyeok Kim. Enabling SLO-Aware 5G Multi-Access Edge Computing with SMEC. In Proceedings of 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2026.
Jiaxin Lin, Zhiyuan Guo, Mihir Shah, Tao Ji, Yiying Zhang, Daehyeok Kim, and Aditya Akella. Portable and High-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali. In Proceedings of 22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2025.
Jiarong Xing, Sophia Yoo, Xenofon Foukas, Daehyeok Kim, and Michael K. Reiter. On the Criticality of Integrity Protection in 5G Fronthaul Networks. In Proceedings of 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, August 2024.
Jiarong Xing, Junzhi Gong, Xenofon Foukas, Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, and Manikanta Kotaru. Enabling Resilience in Virtualized RANs with Atlas. In Proceedings of 29th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, October 2023.
Awards & Honors
- 2025 - NSF CAREER Award
- 2019 - Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
- 2018 - Bronze Award, the 24th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award
- 2016 - Qualcomm Innovation Awards