K.H. (Kane) Kim

Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science
and
Director of DREAM Laboratory

 
Address :
ET544E, University of California, Irvine, California 92697

Phone : (949) 824-5542
FAX : (949) 824-4076
khkim@uci.edu

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Dec. 1974, University of California, Berkeley
  (Prelim Exam: 1st in Computer Science Division;  Qual Exam: Pass with distinction)

• M.A., Computer Science, August 1972, The University of Texas at Austin

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Feb. 1969, Seoul National University, Korea

Professional Experience

• Since 8/86 : Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science,
  (Also Professor of Info. & Comp. Science since 7/89), University of California, Irvine.

• Previously taught at Univ. of South Florida, State Univ. of New York at Binghamton, and USC

• ROTC Officer (1st lieutenant) in Korean Army (3/69-6/71)

Awards, Honors, Professional Society Memberships and Activities

• IEEE Computer Society's 2004 Tsutomu Kanai Award, "For fundamental and pioneering contributions to the scientific
  foundation of both real-time object-structuring based distributed computing and real-time fault-tolerant distributed computing", April 2005.

• IEEE Computer Society's 1998 Technical Achievement Award, "For major contributions to the scientific foundation for both real-time fault-tolerant computing and real-time object-oriented distributed computing", March 1998.   A description in Computer, March 1993.

• Microsoft 2003 Windows Embedded Academic Excellence Award, July 2003 : Microsoft started this award program in 2002 to recognize outstanding contributions to the Windows Embedded community via research & curriculum efforts.

• IEEE Computer Society's Meritorious Service Award, "For dedicated service as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems since its inception", Feb. 1995.
  (member of the founding editorial board during 4/89-4/94).

• KOCSEA Outstanding Service Award, May 1992, for contribution as President of KOCSEA (Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America) during 1991
  (one of the two co-founders of KOCSEA during 1982 - 1983)

• Fellow of the IEEE elected in Fall 1988 for contribution to the field of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing.,
  Also, a member of ACM and a member of IFIP WG10.4 Working Group on Dependable Computing.

• Fellow of the SPDS (Society for Process and Design Science) elected in June 2000

• Served as General Chairman and Program Chairman of 5 International Conferences sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Also, served as the chairman of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (1,300 members) during Sep. 1984-Dec. 1986.

• Served as a member of the editorial board of the JPDC (1/89-10/90). Member of the editorial board of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, World Scientific Pub. (7/94-).

• Founder of the WORDS (IEEE CS Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems) series, (previous WORDSs), and the ISORC (IEEE CS Int'l Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing) series (previous ISORCs).

• President-Elect (for 07/2004 – 06/2005 and slated to serve as 34th President during 07/2005 – 06/2006), (Former elected VP, former elected Auditor, and former elected Councilor representing Group L (Computer Science and System Engineering)) of KSEA (Korean-American Scientists & Engineers Association)

Research Accomplishments

• Originated the DRB technique and several other widely applicable basic approaches for cost-effective design of ultra-reliable fault-tolerant, real-time, distributed and parallel computer systems.
• Primary developer of the TMO (Time-triggered Message-triggered Object) (previously called RTO.k) object-based methodology for real-time system engineering.
• Also developed the TMOSM (TMO Support Middelware), a middleware architecture that can be layered on commercial kernel + hardware platforms to support execution of TMOs, and  the DREAM kernel, a model and prototype of an OS kernel providing guaranteed timely services.
• Built up an experimental research laboratory named DREAM (Distributed Real-Time Ever-Available Microcomputing) lab and equipped with advanced real-time parallel and distributed computing testbeds since early 1980's and evaluated both the TMO-structured real-time system engineering techniques and the techniques for fault tolerance in distributed and parallel real-time computer systems.

Sponsored Research Projects Conducted

Starting 1976, conducted as the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI over 50 research projects dealing with conceptual, analytical, and experimental aspects of the real-time object-oriented programming and software engineering, real-time fault-tolerant computing, distributed and parallel computing, distributed computing based real-time simulation, defense command control, and transportation automation under the sponsorship of various government and industry agencies.

Recent Ph.D Graduates

• Dr. Eltefaat Shokri (Sun MicroSystems), Dr. Luiz Bacellar (United Technologies), Dr. Chittur Subbaraman (Microsoft), Dr. Jeff Juqiang Liu (San Diego State University), Dr. Seok-Joong Kang (Samsung Electronics)

Recent Publications

• You can see some of the recent publications on the TMO (Time-triggered Message-triggered Object) (also called RTO.k) structuring scheme. Included are some keynote presentations and invited papers as well as regular journal and conference papers. 
  
  

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