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
- 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)
- Developing a data monitoring system (MySQL, Kafka, elasticsearch)
- 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)