Education

• Ph.D. in Database Systems, Stanford University (1991)
• MS & BS in EE, Seoul National University (1982, 1980)

Areas of Research & Professional Experience (click here for details)

• Next-generation in-memory database engine
• Massively parallel cloud data management
• Business process data management and intelligence
• Performance-oriented mission-critical software development management

Recent Professional Activities

• VLDB Journal Editor (2009 ~ 2014)
• ICDE Demo Program Committee member (2008 ~ 2012)
• VLDB 2009 Core Database Technology Program Committee member
• ICDE 2009 Research Program Committee member (area: query processing, query optimization, database tuning, and autonomic databases)
• VLDB 2008 Industrial Program Committee member
• VLDB 2006 Industrial Program Committee Co-Chair
• VLDB 2006 Organizer and Moderator of Panel
• "Globalization: Challenges to Database Community" (Participants: C Mohan at IBM India, Vishal Sikka at SAP, Meichun Hsu at HP Lab, Rajeev Rastogi at Bell Lab India, Honesty Young at IBM China Research, Li-Zhu Zhou at Tsinghua Univ.)
• IEEE ICDE 2006 Program Committee Area Vice-Chair in DBMS Internals and Performance
• IEEE ICDE 2005 Organizer and Moderator of Panel
• "Paradigm Shift to New DBMS Architecture: Research Issues and Market Needs" (Tokyo, Japan)
• DASFAA 2003 PC Co-Chair (with Prof. Mastoshi Yoshigawa in Japan)

Major Achievement

• Founded Transact In Memory, Inc. in Silicon Valley in 2002 (also its wholly-owned subsudiary TIM System in Korea in 2000) to fund the development of the next-generation in-memory DBMS (known as P*TIME) and has led it to the successful acquisition by SAP (the #1 global business software company) in 2005. SAP transformed TIM System to SAP R&D Center Korea and made an official announcement in March 2008.
• P*TIME implemented numerous unique (thus patented) architectural features: parallel differential logging and recovery (published in ICDE 2001), cache-conscious index structures (like one published in SIGMOD 2001), cache-conscious index concurrency control with optimistic latch-free index traversal (published in VLDB 2001), and a memory-centric MVCC (multi-version concurrency control).
• 관악에서 실리콘 밸리까지: A Journey of Global Engineer : 실리콘 밸리 벤쳐(Transact In Memory)를 통한 성공적인 글로벌 기술 이전 관련 talk
• Led the development of the first-generation in-memory database storage engine based on the conventional architecture in 1990's . With partial indirect funding from the Korean government for development, this engine was delivered to a government research institute in early 1997, and has become the basis of a commercial in-memory DBMS, which now has numerous deployments in Korea, especially, in telecom and financial services.

Event

• 전기공학부 발전 기금 기념식(April 2010)
• 일양 고명삼홀 개홀 사진 (Opening Prof. Emeritus Ko, Myoung Sam Hall at ARSI)
• Group Retreat to Heidelberg (Germany) and Wengen (Switzerland). (August 2005)

Favorite Links

• Nepanthe at Big Sur, Califonia, USA : where this picture is taken
• San Jose Mercury News : The newspaper covering Silicon Valley and high-tech issues
• Stanford InfoLab Seminar: The 20-year-long Stanford seminar series on database research and technology. I organized this seminar during the Fall and Spring quarters of the 2001-2002 academic year.
• Palo Alto Online : The web site for finding restaurants and interesting things in Palo Alto, CA