Miryung Kim is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and is a Director of Software Engineering and Analysis Laboratory. She is an expert on software evolution, and known for her research on code clones — code duplication detection, management, and removal solutions. She has taken a leadership role in creating and defining the emerging area of Software Engineering for Data Analytics (SE4DA) and organized a Dagstuhl Seminar on SE4ML. Please watch her video on SE4DA here.

She received her B.S. in Computer Science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2001 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2003 and 2008 respectively. She received various awards including an NSF CAREER award, Google Faculty Research Award, and Okawa Foundation Research Award. She was previously an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research is funded by National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory, Google, IBM, Intel, Okawa Foundation, Samsung, and Office of Naval Research. She is a Keynote speaker at ASE 2019. a Program Co-Chair of ESEC/FSE 2022, a Program Co-Chair of ICSME 2019, and was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.