Keun Soo YIM, PhD

I'm an experimental computer scientist, software engineering lead, and system architect. I'm solving challenging problems at Google. My current research interests are in on-device machine learning technologies for privacy and safety critical applications.

• CV: Updated in March 2020

• External Links: Google search, LinkedIn, Google Research, Github.IO, Google Scholar, DBLP, Research Gate, IEEE (1 & 2), ACM (1 & 2), ORCiD, Math Genealogy, USPTO

• Emails: my lastname (at) {google, android} (dot) com or my lastname (at) chromium (dot) org

• Office: Sunnyvale (CA), Home: San Jose (CA)

My Name in Different Languages

• English: Yim, Keun Soo   (You can call me KS.)

• 한글: 임 근수,   汉语: 任 根洙

Research and Development Experience

• Software Engineering Manager / Tech Lead Manager (current rank), Google, Mountain View, California, USA [09/10/2012-Present]

  • Has been working on diverse projects (such as Ads, Cloud, Android, Voice Assistant, and YouTube), while taking various roles including tech lead and eng manager.

• R&D Staff Member / Project Leader (final rank), Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Republic of Korea

• Research Intern, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA

• Software Engineering Intern, Google, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA

• Research Intern, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Yokosuka, Japan

• RA, Information Trust Institute, UIUC, Illinois, USA

• RA, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

• Software Engineer (Freelancer), venture companies

Major Research Areas

• Mobile and embedded Software: Modular Android, RTOS, Linux kernel, Open Source Ecosystem

• Security & Reliability: Experimental Validation and System Security

• Hardware-Software Co-design: Error Detection, Flash Memory, Sensor Networks

• Industrial Software Engineering: Agile Development for Mobile and Big Data Applications

• Machine Learning: ML Infrastructure, Voice Assistant, and Recommendation

Publication Statistics

• International Journals (all as the first author except for one)

  • SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded): 6 papers (LNCS 2006 x 2 papers, LNCS 2004 x 4 papers)

  • IEEE Transactions: 1 paper (IEEE TCE 2004 - was not SCI in 2004 and is SCI 2020)

  • ACM Transactions: 1 paper (ACM TECS 2019 - SCIE)

  • Other: 2 papers (JSTS 2005 - was not SCI in 2005 and is SCI in 2020, LNCS 2011 - no longer SCIE since 2007)

• International Conferences (CORE Ranking; all as the first author)

  • Rank A: 7 papers (IPDPS 2014/2013/2011, ISSRE 2016/2014, SRDS 2016, DSN 2010)

  • Rank B: 4 papers (SAC 2005, PRDC 2009, RTCSA 2006, PDPTA 2003)

  • Other: 3+ papers (IEEE Aerospace 2012, OLS 2008, ISOCC 2004)

• US Patents: 30+ issued (as of November 2020)

Quote

"Few, but ripe."

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. ..." 

By C. F. Gauss