Yubin Kim

4A Software Engineering

yubinkim.com

yubin (at domain) yubinkim.com

Summary of Qualifications

• Interest Areas and Specialties
  • Information retrieval, database implementation, artificial intelligence

• Technical Toolbox
  • 5 years of experience in Java, C/C++ and OOP, design patterns
  • Comfortable scripting Ruby, Python through personal use
  • Experienced with SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL), XML
  • Experienced with Linux, Windows XP/7 through daily and professional use
  • Proficient with Subversion, Perforce through professional use and coursework
  • Proficient with Vim, Eclipse, Netbeans through daily and professional use

Work Experience

• 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
• Co-authored the demo paper ProbClean: A Probabilistic Duplicate Detection System (ICDE 2010)

• 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 text messaging
• 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 staff scheduling system and enabled it to go live at the beta site

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; coordinated a team of leaders

• Writer and proofreader of university Math society newspaper

Awards and Achievements

• 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 - 2010)
• Dean's Honour List (2006 - 2010)
• Governor General's Academic Metal for first in graduating class (2006)

Education

• Relevant Courses
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - 100%
  • Database Systems Implementation - 95%
  • Introduction to Linguistics - 100%
  • Concurrent and Parallel Programming - 99%
  • Real-time Operating Systems - 93%

• Candidate for Bachelor of Software Engineering
  University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario (2006-2011)

• Ontario Secondary School Diploma
  Richview Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Ontario (2001-2006)