Jeong-Hyon Hwang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Albany. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. Jeong-Hyon’s research interests include databases and distributed systems. He has co-authored more than 30 research articles, filed a US patent application, and served as a program committee member or a reviewer for prestigious conferences and journals on computer systems. Jeong-Hyon is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, 2005 ACM SIGMOD best demonstration award, 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.