PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
- Program Committee, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2025.
- Program Committee, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2025.
- Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2025.
- Program Committee, 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2024.
- Program Committee, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2024.
- Program Committee, ACM 16th Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2024.
- Grant Review Committee, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), 2023
- Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2024.
- Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2024.
- Program Committee, 21th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2024.
- Program Committee, 56th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2023
- Program Committee, ACM 15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2023.
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2023.
- Program Committee, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2023.
- Program Committee, The USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2023.
- Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2023.
- Program Committee, 28th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2023
- Program Committee, 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2022.
- Program Committee, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), 2022.
- PC Chair, The 13th Annual Non-Volatile Memory Workshop (NVMW), 2022.
- Program Committee, USENIX 14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2022
- External Program Committee, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2022.
- Organizing Committee, The 27th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2022.
- Program Committee, 27th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2022
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2021
- External Review Committee, 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2021
- Program Committee (awarded by Distinguished PC Members), USENIX 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2021
- Program Committee, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021
- Program Committee, Annual Non-Volatile Memory Workshop (NVMW), 2021.
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), 2021.
- Program Committee, The 30th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC), 2021.
- Organizing Committee, The 27th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2021.
- Program Committee, The IEEE 15th International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), 2020.
- External Review Committee, The 29th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2020.
- Invited Memory Panel, The future of memory technologies and their impact on future HPC and datacenter system design at ISC High Performance, 2020.
- Program Committee, 12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2020.
- Program Committee, DAC Late Breaking Results, 2020.
- Program Committee, ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), 2020
- Program Committee, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020
- Program Committee, KSC System Society Conference, 2020
- External Review Committee, 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2019
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2019
- Advisory board, IT University of Copenhagen, Nordea, Conscia, Red Hat, CNEX Labs, UC Santa Cruz, 2019
- Program Committee, Design Automation Conference, (DAC), 2019.
- Program Committee, Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, (NVMW), 2019.
- External Review Committee, ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, (ASPLOS), 2019.
- External Review Committee, IEEE Symposium on. High Performance Computer Architecture. (HPCA), 2019.
- Program Committee, Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2019
- Program Committee, The 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2018
- Program Committee, The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2018
- Program Committee, 51st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2018
- Organization Committee, 51st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2018
- Program Committee, 2nd Workshop on Hardware/Software Techniques for Minimizing Data Movement (Min-Move 2018) @ ASPLOS, 2018
- Program Committee, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2018
- Shadow Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, (ASPLOS), 2018
- Grant Review Committee, Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center for Future Technology (Fall), 2017.
- Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, (HPCA), 2018
- Program Committee, International Workshop on Architectures for Intelligent Machines (AIM), 2017
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2017
- Program Committee, International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC), 2017
- Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-17), 2017
- Program Committee, IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA) 2017.
- Grant Review Committee, Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center for Future Technology (Spring), 2017.
- External Program Committee, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2017.
- Organization Committee, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) Spring 2017.
- Organization Committee, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2016.
- Organization Committee, Operating System Support for Next Generation Large Scale NVRAM (NVRAMOS) 2016.
- Program Committee, USENIX Interactions OF NVM/Flash with Operating-Systems and Workloads (INFLOW), 2016
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2016
- Program Committee, Workshop on Architectures and Systems for Big Data (ASBD), 2016
- Executive Director, Special Interest Group on Computer Systems (SIGCS), 2016~present
- Grant Reviewer, U.S. Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation, 2016
- Session Chair, Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2016.
- External Review Committee, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2016
- Organization Committee, Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA), 2016
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), 2016.
- Program Committee, ACM/SIGARCH International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2016.
- Program Committee, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2016.
- External Review Committee, IEEE Symposium on. High Performance Computer Architecture. (HPCA), 2016.
- Program Committee, USENIX Workshop on Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating Systems and Workloads (INFLOW), 2015.
- External Review Committee, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2015.
- Program Committee, International Symposium on Computer Architecture & Digital Systems (CADS), 2015.
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2015.
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), 2015
- Program Committee, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SOC) 2015
- Program Committee, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2015.
- External Review Committee, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2015.
- Organizing Committee, Operating System Support for Next Generation Large Scale NVRAM (NVRAMOS), 2014.
- Editor, IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications, 2014
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2014.
- External Review Committee, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2014.
- Program Committee, International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences, 2014.
- Organizing Committee, Operating System Support for Next Generation Large Scale NVRAM (NVRAMOS), 2013.
- Memory Session Chair, International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2013.
- Program Committee, International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences, 2013.
AWARDS
- Hall of Fame, IEEE/ACM ISCA, 2024
- Innovation Award Winner, "CXL-Enabled AI Accelerator", CES, 2024
- The Memorable Paper Award Winner, HolisticGNN: Geometric Deep Learning Engines for Computational SSDs, NVMW, 2022
- Samsung Best Paper Award Winner (Grand Prize), Hardware-Software Co-Design to Integrate Strong Latency Determinism into Log-Structured Merge Key-Value Stores, Samsung Electronics, 2022
- Award of Excellence, The Best Lecturer (Undergraduate Operating System), KAIST, 2021
- Distinguished Program Committee Members, USENIX 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2021
- Award of Excellence, Engineering School Technology Innovation Award, KAIST, 2020
- Award of Excellence, RNN-based Machine Learning Methods in an SSD for Efficient Data Reduction and Compression, SK Semiconductor Innovation, 2018
- Award of Excellence, Introducing a Hybrid Non-Volatile Memory Systems for High Performance GPGPU-based Graph Processing, SK Semiconductor Innovation, 2018
- Special Award, Holistic Optimizations for High-Reliable QLC-based SSD Storage Systems by Leveraging Redundant Fault-Tolerance Mechanisms in Data Center, SK Semiconductor Innovation, 2018
- National Research Foundation, Design of Advanced Future Software and Hardware Stack for New Memory based SSD Systems, NRF 2021R1AC4001773, 2021 (Single PI)
- IITP, Machine Learning Augmented Intelligent Storage Systems for Hyper-Connected Society, IITP 2021-0-00524, 2021 (Single PI)
- U.S. LBNL/DOE, Design and Implementation of FPGA-based Non-Volatile Memory Controllers, DE-AC02-05CH 11231, 2017.
- National Research Foundation, NRF 5 Years Young Researcher Career Program, R1C1B2015312, 2016 (Single PI).
- National Research Foundation, Next-Generation Information Computing Development Program, NRF-2015M3C4A7065645, 2015
- U.S. National Science Foundation, CNS Core Programs Award, CNS-1422923, 2014 (Single PI).
- U.S. Department of Energy and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CoDEx Award, DE-AC02-05CH1123, 2014.
- Award of Excellence, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Computer Sciences Summer Student Program, 2012.
- Future Scientist Award Winner, Federation of Busan Science and Technology, 2005.
- Most Innovative Award Winner, "National Thesis Project," Gwangju Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency, 2005.
- Professional Development Award, Korea Game Technology Center, 2005.
- The Best New Employee of Product Planning Team Award, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., 2006.
- Winner in “The Best Engineer of Flash Software Group Awards,” Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., 2006.
INVITATION TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Keynote Speech, "Tomorrow AI Datacenter with CXL", The Institute of Semiconductor Engineer, 2024
- Invited Speaker, "Exploring the Current and Future Terrain of CXL Technology", Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 2024
- Invited Speaker, "The Evolution of Solid-State Drives: Computational Approaches and Applications", Samsung MX, 2023.
- Invited Speaker, "Panmnesia: Navigating the CXL Landscape - Present and Beyond", Samsung DS, 2023
- Invited Speaker, "The Forefront of Technology: An In-depth Exploration of CXL and Its Memory-Centric Uses", Memory Centric Computing Workshop, 2023
- Invited Speaker, "An In-Depth Look: From Flash Firmware Architecture to CXL Interfaces", Samsung MX, 2023.
- Invited Speaker, "From CXL to Flash Firmware: Understanding Tomorrow's Memory, Storage, and Software", Samsung Semiconductor, 2023
- Distinguished Lecture, "Revolutionizing Data Centers: The Role of CXL Technology", Peking University 2023
- Invited Speaker, "CXL Memory Pooling: The Basics and Beyond in AI", Industry-Academic Collaboration Workshop for Semiconductor, IC Design Education Center, 2023
- Invited Speaker, "Navigating the CXL Landscape: From Fundamentals to Future Applications", Samsung AIT, 2023.
- Invited Speaker, "Breaking Down CXL: Why It's Crucial and What's Next", SIGARCH, 2023.
- Invited Speaker, " Memory Pooling over CXL and Go Beyond with AI", 2023 OCP APAC Tech Day, 2023
- Invited Speaker, "Beyond DRAM: Exploring the Potential of Persistent Memory in Modern Computing", Samsung MX, 2023.
- Invited Speaker, " Memory Expansion Techniques and Large-Scale AI Model Acceleration using CXL", AI Semiconductor Forum, The Institute Semiconductor Engineers, 2023
- Invited Speaker, "CXL Decoded: Its Meaning, Importance and the Path Ahead", Samsung Electronics, 2023.
- Invited Speaker, " Unlocking the Power of CXL: Navigating the Future of Cutting-Edge Technology", Seoul National University, 2023
- Invited Speaker, "What is CXL, Why Does It Matter, and Where Are We?", CXL Industry Symposium (Intel, AMD, Panmnesia, Samsung, SK-Hynix Consortium), 2023
- Keynote, Process-in-Memory and AI-semiconductor Strategic Technology Symposium 2022, IITP, Ministry of Science/Industry
- Distinguished Lecture, " Putting Memory and Computing in a Single Pool over Compute Express Link (CXL)", RESDIS held together with The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'22),
- Invited Speaker, "Memory Expansion over Cache Coherent Interconnect (CXL)", LX Semiconductor, 2022
- Invited Speaker, "Future Hardware Acceleration with CXL", Fuiosa AI, 2022
- Invited Speaker, "High-Performance Memory Expansion and Scalable CXL Network", Samsung Electronics, 2022
- Invited Program Speaker, "CXL-SSD: Expanding PCIe Storage as Working Memory over CXL", CXL Forum at Flash Memory Summit, 2022
- Invited Program Speaker, "CXL 2.0-based End-to-end System for High-Performance Memory Disaggregation", CXL Forum at Flash Memory Summit, 2022
- Featured Lecture, "The Future of CXL Interconnect Technologies", SK-Hynix C-level Memory Summit, 2022
- Invited Program Speaker, "Is Memory Becoming Indistinguishable from Storage?", ISC, 2021
- Keynote Speech, " System Platform Revolution over Open-licensed Hardware", Samsung Open Source Conference, 2020
- Invitation Talk, "NVM for HPC: from Ultra-Fast Storage to Compute Accelerator to Checkpoint-Free Persistent CPUs", Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, 2020
- Invitation Talk, "Exploring Full Design Spaces for Microscale Performance Storage", ETRI, 2020
- Invited Program Speaker, " Is Memory Becoming Indistinguishable from Storage?", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)/ISC, 2020
- Invitation Talk, "Microscale Performance Storage Architecture", SNU, 2019
- Invitation Talk, "Design Challenges of Storage Systems to Expose Microscale Performance", SIGARCH Korea Chapter, 2019
- Invitation Talk, "Non-Volatile Memory and Storage Systems in Exascale Supercomputing", Virtualization Workshop, Korea University, 2019
- Invitation Talk, "Cross-Layer Optimizations for Datacenters and Full-System Simulation Model for SSD Research Acceleration," KSC System Society, 2019
- Invitation Talk, "High-Speed Storage Systems for Future Research," Korea Semiconductor Industry Association, 2018
- Invitation Talk, "Punching Through Server Storage Stack from Kernel to Firmware for Ultra-Low Latency SSDs," NVRAMOS", 2018
- Colloquium, "Exploring New Challenges with Emerging Non-Volatile Memory Technologies," KAIST, 2018
- Invitation Talk, "PRAM and New Memory Solutions," Western Digital Research, San Jose CA, America, 2018
- Presentation, "Design of PRAM-based Persistent NVDIMM to Prepare the Data Age," Flash Summit, Santa Clara CA, America, 2018
- Invitation Talk, "Flash Innovation for IoT, Large-Scale Storage, and Heterogeneous Edge," SK Hynix, 2018
- Invitation Talk, "Datacenter and Cloud with New Non-Volatile Memories," LG Electronics, 2018
- Invitation Talk, "Memory Hierarchy Revision by Taking Into Account Flash and New Memories," UNIST, 2018
- Invitation Talk, "Flash in Multi-Scale Computing Systems," SIGFAST, 2018
- Invitation Talk, "Harmony of the Emerging Non-Volatile Memories for Data Explosion," SK, 2018
- Invitation Talk, "Hardware and Software Optimizations for Flash-based Data Processing Acceleration," KSC System Society, 2018
- Tutorial, "Non-Volatile Memory and High Performance Data Processing and Simulation Methods," KSC, 2017
- Invitation Talk, "Flash in Data Centers, Enterprise Edges, and Endpoints," Samsung Memory Division, 2017
- Tutorial, "Modeling NVMe-Enabled SSD Architectures for Full System Simulations," International SoC Design Conference, 2017
- Forum, "Storage System for High Performance Exascale Supercomputing," Korea Supercomputing Conference, 2017
- Invitation Talk, "System Exploration and Optimization for Storage Class Memory," Operating System Support for Next Generation Large Scale NVRAM, 2017
- Invitation Talk, "Tweaking Storage Stacks with New Memory and Manycore-Integrated Hardware Acceleration," Samsung Semiconductor, 2017
- Invitation Talk, "Exploring Non Volatile Memory From Data Centers to Connected Devices," POSTECH, 2017
- Invitation Talk, "Memory and Storage for Data Age 2025", Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, 2017
- Invitation Lecture, "High Performance SSD Architecture", Seoul National University 2017
- Invitation Talk, "Putting All your Eggs in One Basket for Better Hardware Acceleration", Sogang University 2017
- Invitation Talk, "Cutting-down SSD Infrastructure for Full System Simulation", Hanyang University 2017
- Invitation Talk, "Towards the Integration of Storage and Computational Resources", Operating System Support for Next Generation Large Scale NVRAM, 2016
- Invitation Talk, "Performance Tuning on Inside and Outside in Modern Solid State Disks", Seoul National University, 2016
- Invitation Talk, "Architecture Exploration and System Research for Flash-based SSDs", SIGCS, 2016
- Invitation Talk, "SSD Optimization From the Ground-Up into Heterogeneous Computing", SK-Hynix, 2015
- Invitation Talk, "A Holistic Architecture Approach for Non-Volatile Memory based Storage Systems", POSTECH, 2015
- Colloquium, "A Design of Flash-based Storage Arrays from the Bottom to the Top," Pennsylvania State University, PA, 2015
- Invitation Talk, "Modeling Open Simulation Framework and Byte Addressable Interface for Non-Volatile Memory," Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Hardware Architecture Program Review, Berkeley, CA, 2015
- Invitation Talk, "Current State of the Art Non-Volatile Memory and Solid State Disk Architecture," Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 2014
- Presentation, "HIOS: A Host Interface I/O Scheduler for Solid State Disks", ISCA, Minneapolis, MN, 2014
- Presentation, "Triple-A: A Non-SSD Based Autonomic All-Flash Array for Scalable High Performance Computing Storage Systems," ASPLOS, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2014 [ slides ]
- Presentation, "Sprinkler: Maximizing Resource Utilization in Many-Chip Solid State Disks", HPCA, Orlando, FL, 2014 [ slides ]
- Presentation, "Challenges in Getting Flash Drives Closer to CPU", HotStorage, San Jose, CA, 2013 [ video ] [ slides ]
- Presentation, "Revisiting Widely-held Expectations of SSD and Rethinking Implications for Systems", SIGMETRICS, Pittsburgh. PA 2013 [ slides ]
- Presentation, "Design of a Large-Scale Storage-Class RRAM System", ICS, Eugene, OR, 2013
- Presentation, "Disk-Cache and Parallelism Aware I/O Scheduling to Improve Storage System Performance", IPDPS, Boston, MA, 2013
- Presentation, "Interference Resolver in Shared Storage Systems to Provide Fairness to I/O Intensive Applications", HPDIC, Boston, MA 2013
- Invitation Talk, "Designing Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Removing Performance Bottlenecks for SSDs", Intel Research Lab, CA, 2013
- Presentation, "Taking Garbage Collection Overheads off the Critical Path in SSDs", USENIX Middleware, Montreal, Canada, 2012
- Demo, "Middleware - Firmware Cooperation for High-Speed Solid State Drives", USENIX Middleware, Montreal, Canada, 2012
- Presentation, "Removing Performance Bottlenecks for SSDs," DoD Supercomputing Resource Center, US Army Research Lab, 2012
- Technical Session, "Next generation NVM technologies," Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Berkeley, CA, 2012
- Presentation, "Physically Addressed Queueing (PAQ): Improving Parallelism in Solid State Disks," ISCA, Portland, OR, 2012
- Presentation, "An Evaluation of Different Page Allocation Strategies on High-Speed SSDs," USENIX HotStorage, Boston, MA, 2012
- Presentation, "NANDFlashSim: Intrinsic Latency Variation Aware NAND Flash Memory System Modeling and Simulation at Microarchitecture level," MSST, Pacific Grove, CA, 2012
- Presentation, "On Urgency of I/O Operations," CCGrid, Ottawa, Canada, 2012
- Technical Session, “Efficient Development Methods by using C,”Samsung Software Center, Korea, 2007
- Invitation Talk, "Object Oriented Paradigm,”Samsung Software Center, Korea, 2005