Daehyeok Kim
Assistant Professor
Research
- Computer networks
- Operating systems
- Distributed systems
- Datacenter infrastructure: Programming heterogeneous hardware, managing shared compute, memory, and network resources, and enabling efficient recovery from failures.
- Real-time edge computing: Coordinating wireless networks and nearby servers to provide low-latency, predictable, secure, and resilient services.
- Automated systems design and evaluation: Generating safe resource-management policies, reusable performance models, and realistic testing environments.
Select Publications
Joon Ha Kim, Geon-Woo Kim, Anoop Rachakonda, Daehyeok Kim. Dooly: Configuration-Agnostic, Redundancy-Aware Profiling for LLM Inference Simulation. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2026.
Donghyun Kim, Zichao Hu, Joydeep Biswas, Aditya Akella, Daehyeok Kim. Mimesys: Generating Realistic Executable Testing Environments from Resource Usage Traces. In Proceedings of the 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 the 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 the 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 the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, August 2024.
Awards & Honors
- 2025 - NSF CAREER Award
- 2025 - NVIDIA Academic Grant Award
- 2019 - Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
- 2018 - Bronze Award, the 24th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award
- 2016 - Qualcomm Innovation Awards