He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University in 2008. Jeong-Hyon’s research interests include databases and distributed systems. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2012), ICDE Best Poster Award (2014), ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award (2005), IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award (2010), as well as a national scholarship and a software development award, both from the Ministry of Information and Communication of Korea. Jeong-Hyon has industrial experience as a software development team manager and a software engineer.