An interview with Miryung Kim - 2022 SIGSOFT Awardee

Abstract

Miryung Kim received the 2022 SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award for outstanding achievements in undergraduate and graduate mentoring with emphasis on research excellence in software engineering, diversity, and inclusion. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington, Seattle (USA), and she is a Professor and a Vice Chair of graduate studies at UCLA Computer Science. Her research interests include the detection of code clones and code duplication, as well as solutions for their management and removal. She has helped to define the field of software engineering for data intensive computing.