Jeong-Hyon Hwang is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University at Albany -- State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. Jeong-Hyon’s research interests include databases and distributed systems. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2012), CIDR Test of Time Award (2025), 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.