Chaeeun Kim

PhD student

About Me

Hi, my name is Chaeeun and I’m a 2nd year PhD student at UC Santa Cruz. My research interests are Cloud and Edge Computing, Stream processing systems, Large scale graph mining, Distributed algorithm and Distributed systems.

Publication

[TMC] Cheng-Wei Ching, Xin Chen, Chaeeun Kim, Tongze Wang, Dong Chen, Dilma Da Silva, and Liting Hu, AgileDART: An Agile and Scalable Edge Stream Processing Engine, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), 2025, [PDF]

[ICDE’24] Chaeeun Kim, Changhun Han, and Ha-Myung Park, BTS: Load-Balanced Distributed Union-Find for Finding Connected Components with Balanced Tree Structures, ICDE 2024 [PDF][source code]

[PlosOne] Chaeeun Kim, Changhun Han, and Ha-Myung Park, UniCon: A Unified Star-Operation to Efficiently Find Connected Components on a Cluster of Commodity Hardware, PLOS ONE, 2022 [PDF][source code]

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering

2023 - Present

  • Advisor: Liting Hu and Chen Qian
  • Expected graduation date: 2028

Kookmin University

MS in Computer Science

2020 - 2022

  • Advisor: Ha-Myung Park
  • Thesis: An Efficient Algorithm for Computing Connected Components of an Enormous Graph using a Commodity Cluster

Kookmin University

BS in Computer Science

2015 - 2020

Experience

Eazel

Data Engineer

December 2022 - June 2023

https://eazel.net/
  • Crawling art market data (python, socketio, airflow, aws ec2)
  • Building and implementing data pipeline (spark, redshift, msk, kafka, postgresql(aws rds), emr, airflow, s3)
  • Processing data (spark)

Toss Securities

Data Engineer Assistant

May 2022 - August 2022

https://www.tossinvest.com/
  • Developing a data monitoring system (MySQL, Kafka, elasticsearch)

Humanscape

Software Engineer Intern

June 2019 - August 2019

https://humanscape.io/en/index.html
  • Developing frontend and backend of mobile applications (Django, React Native)

ISG Group, UC Irvine

Summer Undergraduate Research Intern

June 2018 - August 2018

https://cloudberry.ics.uci.edu/
  • Developing frontend of Twittermap service (Python, Angular JS, HTML, CSS)
  • Advisor: Chen Li

Teaching

CSE13S Computer Systems and C Programming

  • Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz (Winter 2025)

CSE130 Principles of Computer Systems Design

  • Lead Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz (Spring 2024)

Database systems

  • Teaching Assistant, Kookmin University (Spring 2021)

Computer Programming

  • Instructor, Kookmin University (Spring 2020)

Selected Awards and Grants

Graduate Student Travel Award from UCSC (June 2024)

IEEE ICDE 2024 Student Travel Awards (May 2024)

ACM EuroSys 2024 Travel Grant (April 2024)

Extra Activity

Administrator of cluster server (10 machines) in DMlab., Kookmin University (March 2023 - February 2022)

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (June 2020)

Coding problem creator for the Coding Competency Certification, Kookmin University (2021)