Yubin Kim

PhD Candidate

www.yubinkim.com

yubin (at-domain) yubinkim dot com

Refereed System Demonstration

• George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Shai Ben-David, Yubin Kim: ProbClean: A probabilistic duplicate detection system. ICDE 2010: 1193-1196

Research Experience

• Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University (09/2011 - current)
• Advised by Prof. Jamie Callan in the Language Technologies Institute
• Researching use of structured data sources such as Freebase to improve search results

• Research Assistant at University of Waterloo (09/2010 - 12/2010)
• Full-time position under Prof. Ihab Ilyas in the Database Systems group
• Implemented a database system that natively handles unstructured text

• Research Assistant at University of Waterloo (05/2010 - 09/2010)
• Part-time position under Prof. Charles Clarke in the Information Retrieval group
• Designed and implemented a system to detect and summarize events in online news media using Ruby

• Research Intern at Primal Fusion Inc. (01/2010 - 04/2010)
• Designed and implemented a prototype of the next-generation semantic engine that serves as the back-end for all of Primal Fusion's products
• Presented work to company's top officers

• Research Assistant at University of Waterloo (09/2009 - 12/2009)
• Part-time position under Prof. Ihab Ilyas in the Database Systems research group
• Contributed in implementation of duplicate data detection system written in Java

Relevant Project

• Fame to Flame (2010 - 2011)
• Designed and implemented a product review aggregator that provides metrics such as sentiment analysis and salient terms
• Awarded overall 3rd in design project symposium - $500 prize

Related Work Experience

• Software Developer Intern at A9.com, Inc. (05/2009 - 08/2009)
• Improved Amazon.com's product search engine
• Developed a tool that displays the contents of a search index for debugging and QA purposes in C++
• Revamped the index metadata files to use XML formatting, using Python and C++
• Researched an open source search server called Solr and prepared a presentation comparing it to A9.com's search

• Software Developer Intern at Google, Inc. (09/2008 - 12/2008)
• Developed a system that allows users and radio stations to interact by SMS via mobile phones in Java
• Designed and launched new features for the system:
  • Java servlets in the back-end to handle requests generated by the new features
  • Web control panels and analytic dashboard implemented in GWT and Java

• Software Developer at Sybase iAnywhere, Inc. (01/2008 - 04/2008)
• Revamped and fully automated the test framework utilizing Java, C++ and HTTP
• Built a multi-threaded database extraction tool from scratch utilizing J2ME, C++ and HTTP
• Fixed several bugs in UltraLiteJ, a light-weight DB for the Blackberry, and wrote test cases for each fix

• Software Developer at Encom Information Systems, Inc. (07/2007 - 08/2007)
• Communicated directly with client to debug and develop a staff scheduling system written in Progress 4GL
• Rebuilt the defunct clinic scheduling system and enabled it to go live at the beta site

Awards and Honours

• NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - $17300 (2011)
• Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - $17500 (declined) (2011)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship - $15000 (declined) (2011)
• Graduated with distinction on the Dean's Honours List (2011)
• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award - $4500 (2010)
• Faculty of Engineering Upper-Year Scholarship - $400 (2010)
• Software Engineering Entrance Scholarship - $4000 (2006)
• President's Scholarship - $2000 (2006)
• Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top scholarship - $3500 x 4 (2006 - 2011)
• Dean's Honour List (2006 - 2011)
• Governor General's Academic Metal for first in graduating class (2006)

Interests and Activities

• Co-Head Delegate for CUSEC 2008 representing University of Waterloo (01/2008)
  • Marketed the event to Software Engineering students
  • Organized a 3-day trip from Waterloo to the conference in Montreal
  • Successfully presented the conference to the Math Endowment Fund for funding

• Orientation Week Leader (09/2007 - 09/2009)
  • Led a group of first-years through various activities during Orientation Week
  • Head leader in Sep. 09; organized a team of leaders

• Facilities Representative of Software Engineering class of 2011
• Elected position, responsible for managing interpersonal and technical issues in the labs

• Writer and proofreader of university Math society newspaper

Education

• PhD Candidate in Computer Science
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2011 - current)

• Bachelor of Software Engineering
  University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario (2006 - 2011)
• Graduated with distinction on the Dean's Honours List

Technical Proficiency

• Proficient with Java, C/C++, Ruby, Python, dabbled with Haskell
• Comfortable with Linux, Windows XP/7 environments
• Experienced in modifying search index and database internals