Biography

I completed my M.S. & Ph.D. at Yonsei University, Korea (Advisor: Professor Won Woo Ro), with a dissertation titled “GPU Architecture Design for Effective Computing Resource Usage.” My expertise spans the design of computer architectures—from general-purpose to domain-specific processors—with a focus on optimizing computing and memory resource utilization.

My research has centered on improving GPU resource efficiency, accelerating matrix computations, and democratizing domain-specific accelerators. To broaden my expertise from microarchitecture to system-level design, I worked as a system architect at MangoBoost Inc., where I explored SmartNICs to enhance DPUs. Currently, I am working at Meta as an ASIC engineer on the Infra Silicon team, further advancing my experience in cutting-edge chip design and large-scale hardware systems.

Professional Experience

ASIC EngineerMeta ↗ (Infra Silicon Team)
July 2025 — Present
Mid-level (July 2025 – July 2026) · Senior (Aug 2026 – Present)
System ArchitectMangoboost ↗ (RDMA)
July 2024 — March 2025
Junior SpecialistUniversity of California, Riverside ↗ (ESCA Lab (Advisor: Prof. Hung-Wei Tseng))
Sep 2023 — Dec 2023

Education

M.S. & Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
March 2019 — August 2024
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea · Advisor: Prof. Won Woo Ro
Dissertation: “GPU Architecture Design for Effective Computing Resource Usage”
B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
March 2014 — February 2019
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Academic Service

International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) — Program / Review Committee
2025, 2026
Workshop on General Purpose Processing using GPUs (GPGPU) — Program Committee
2025
EEE3530: Computer Architecture (Yonsei University) — Teaching Assistant
Spring 2021
EEE4473: Embedded System Lab (Yonsei University) — Teaching Assistant
Spring 2020

Additional Details

Research Interests & Ongoing Topics
Scaled Numeric Format
Collaborating with Yunho Oh, Korea University
Outlier Handling in GPUs
Collaborating with Yunho Oh, Korea University
Outlier Handling in AI/ML
Collaborating with Won Woo Ro, Yonsei University
LLM Inferencing
Collaborating with Won Woo Ro, Yonsei University
Industry Projects & Patents (7)
Study on Memory Sub-System Architecture for Hyper-Scale AI Training
2024
SK Hynix
Development of PIM Software Architecture based on Data-Flow Computing
2024
Korea Government (IITP)
Analysis and Development of GPU Architecture for HPC Workloads[US Patent ↗]
2021 — 2022
Samsung (SAIT)
Development of Data Center Many-core NPU Architecture and Memory Interface
2019 — 2020
Samsung
Development of CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Simulation Environment
2019 — 2020
SK Hynix
Development of Identification Data Processing Technology for On-site Officers
2018 — 2023
Korea Government (Korea National Police Agency)
Development of Multi-GPU Based High Speed Ray-Tracing Engine
2017 — 2018
Samsung
Journal Reviewing
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)
×8
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
×3
Parallel Computing (PC)
×3
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC)
×2
Funding & Scholarships (4)
BK21 FOUR Project Scholarship
23,800,000 KRW
External Scholarship
11,400,000 KRW
Teaching Assistant Scholarship
3,716,000 KRW
Research Assistance Scholarship
3,000,000 KRW
Collaborators (51)
Languages
Korean
Native
English
Professional