Prof. Ko received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2003. He also received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Sogang University, Seoul, Korea in 1990 and 1992, respectively. During 2005-2011, Prof. Ko was appointed as adjunct faculty for the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program in School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining KAIST, Prof. Ko worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Distributed Scalable Systems Division at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI).