Ph.D. Candidate

High Performance Systems Software Laboratory

Adviser: Dr. Alan Sussman

Co-Adviser: Dr. Peter Keleher

Office: A.V.W. 4166

Phone: 301-405-2756

E-mail: jiksoo AT CS DOT UMD DOT EDU

Education & Career

2002. August ~ Current: Ph.D. Student at the University of Maryland

2005. May: M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland

1999. April ~ 2002. June: Full-time Lecturer and Officer at the Korea Military Academy

1999. February: M.S. from the Seoul National University

1997. February: B.S. from the Seoul National University

Research Interests

High Performance Scientific Computing

Computational GRID

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Systems

Projects

Employing Peer-to-Peer Techniques for Robust Grid Computing, University of Maryland at College Park

Multi-Perspective Vision Studio, University of Maryland at College Park

Design and Implementation of a Small DBMS for Mobile Devices, Korea Military Academy

A Web-based Distance Education System for Medical Professionals, Seoul National University

Publications

Jik-Soo Kim, Beomseok Nam, Michael Marsh, Peter Keleher, Bobby Bhattacharjee and Alan Sussman, "Integrating Categorical Resource Types into a P2P Desktop Grid System", 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008), September 2008. [PDF] [PS]

Michael Marsh, Jik-Soo Kim, Beomseok Nam, Jaehwan Lee, San Ratanasanya, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter Keleher, Derek Richardson, Dennis Wellnitz and Alan Sussman, "Matchmaking and Implementation Issues for a P2P Desktop Grid", 2008 National Science Foundation Next Generation Software Workshop (NSFNGS 2008) in conjunction with IPDPS 2008, April 2008. [PDF] [PS]

Jik-Soo Kim, Beomseok Nam, Peter Keleher, Michael Marsh, Bobby Bhattacharjee and Alan Sussman, "Trade-offs in Matching Jobs and Balancing Load for Distributed Desktop Grids", Future Generation Computer Systems - The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications (FGCS), Volume 24, Issue 5, pp 415-424, 2008. [Invitation from GRID 2006] [DOI]

Jik-Soo Kim, Peter Keleher, Michael Marsh, Bobby Bhattacharjee and Alan Sussman, "Using Content-Addressable Networks for Load Balancing in Desktop Grids", 16th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2007), June 2007. Also, the extended version is available as University of Maryland Technical Report CS-TR-4863 and UMIACS-TR-2007-16 [PDF] [PS]

Jik-Soo Kim, Henrique Andrade and Alan Sussman, "Principles for Designing Data-/Compute-Intensive Distributed Applications and Middleware Systems for Heterogeneous Environments", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 67, Issue 7, pp 755-771, April 2007 [DOI]

Jik-Soo Kim, Beomseok Nam, Michael Marsh, Peter Keleher, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Derek Richardson, Dennis Wellnitz and Alan Sussman, "Creating a Robust Desktop Grid using Peer-to-Peer Services", 2007 National Science Foundation Next Generation Software Workshop (NSFNGS 2007) in conjunction with IPDPS 2007, March 2007. [PDF] [PS]

Jik-Soo Kim, Beomseok Nam, Peter Keleher, Michael Marsh, Bobby Bhattacharjee and Alan Sussman, "Resource Discovery Techniques in Distributed Desktop Grid Environments", 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (GRID 2006), September 2006. [Student Travel Award by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC)] [Best Paper Award] [PDF] [PS]

Jik-Soo Kim, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter Keleher and Alan Sussman, "Matching Jobs to Resources in Distributed Desktop Grid Environments", University of Maryland Technical Report CS-TR-4791 and UMIACS-TR-2006-15, April 2006. [PDF] [PS]

Jik-Soo Kim, Henrique Andrade and Alan Sussman, "Comparing the Performance of High-Level Middleware Systems in Shared and Distributed Memory Parallel Environments", 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), April 2005. [Student Travel Award by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)] [PDF] [PS]

Technical Presentations

Jik-Soo Kim, "Robust and Effective Resource Management in Distributed Desktop Grids", at 2008 IPDPS TCPP PhD Forum, April 2008. [Student Travel Award by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)] [Poster]

Jik-Soo Kim, "Robust and Effective Resource Management in Distributed Desktop Grids", at University of Maryland Software Day, January 2008. [PDF]

Jik-Soo Kim, "Employing Peer-to-Peer Services for Robust Grid Computing", Poster at Supercomputing (SC 2006), November 2006. [Second Place Winner of ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)] [Poster] [SRC]

Eugene Borovikov, Jik-Soo Kim, Larry Davis and Alan Sussman, "Multiperspective Image Analysis on the Grid", Poster and Demo at TECH 2004: A showcase of electrical engineering, computing and systems research at the University of Maryland, March 2004. [Poster]

Miscellaneous Work

Jik-Soo Kim, Do-Young Park and Minyoung Ra, "Development of a Small DBMS for Mobile Devices", Korea Information Science Society (KISS) Fall Conference, October 2000.