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Professor

John Kim

ADVISOR

John Kim is currently an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Daejeon, Korea. John Kim received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and B.S/M.Eng from Cornell University. His research interests include computer architecture, interconnection networks, security, and mobile systems. Prior to graduate school, he worked on the design of several microprocessors at Intel and at Motorola.

Ph.D Students

Kihoon Jung

Kihoon Jung joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in March 2016. His current research topic includes accelerating Graph Neural Network (GNN) and interconnection network.
E-mail : kh_jung@kaist.ac.kr

Hyojun Son

Hyojun Son joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in March 2017. His current research topic includes DNN accelerator and interconnection network.
E-mail : processor@kaist.ac.kr

Jiho Kim

Jiho Kim joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in September 2018. His current research interests include interconnection networks, GPU and storage system.
E-mail : jihokim@kaist.ac.kr

Haeyoon Cho

Haeyoon Cho joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in September 2019. His current research topics are near-data processing and memory network. 
E-mail : haeyoon.cho@kaist.ac.kr

Hans Kasan

Hans Kasan joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in September 2018. His current research topic is load-balancing, but is struggling to achieve work-life balance.
E-mail : hanskasan@kaist.ac.kr

Cheryl Siy

Cheryl Siy joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in Sep. 2020. Her current research topic is Human Computer Interface
E-mail : cherylmsiy@gmail.com

Gilbert Jonatan

Gilbert Jonatan joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in Sep. 2021. His research interests are interconnection network & homomorphic encryption
E-mail : gilbertjonatan@kaist.ac.kr

M.S. Students

Hyuntaek Cho

Hyuntaek Cho joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in March 2021. His current research topics are storage system and architecture.
E-mail : siljean77@kaist.ac.kr 

Sanzhar Shabdarov

Sanzhar Shabdarov joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in Sep. 2021. His current research topics is multi-GPU system
E-mail : sanzha.shabdarov@gmail.com

Jihyun Kim

Jihyun Kim joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in Sep. 2022. Her research interests are hardware security for emerging architectures.
E-mail : kimjihyun@kaist.ac.kr

Gyubeom Jeon

Gyubeom Jeon joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in Mar. 2023. His research interests are storage and AI acceleration.
E-mail : gyubeom4055@kaist.ac.kr

Yassawe Kainolda

Yassawe Kainolda joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in Sep. 2021. His current research topics is multi-GPU system
E-mail : jassaui.k@gmail.com

Tho Mai

Tho Mai joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in Sep. 2021. His current research topics is interconnection network.
E-mail :tho.maihuu1511@gmail.com

Xiangyu Wu

Xiangyu Wu joined CSNL in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in Sep. 2022. His current research topics is interconnection network and near data processing.
E-mail: wuxiangyu@kaist.ac.kr

Alumni

  • Gwangsun Kim – ARM Research (now assistant professor at POSTECH)

  • Wonjun Song – ETRI (now assistant professor at Kangwon University)

  • Jongin Lee – Startup company

  • Seokwoo Song – Samsung Research

  • Byungchul Hong – Furiosa AI

  • Jaemoon Sim (2018) – Naver

  • Yeonju Ro (2018) – Samsung Research

  • Youngkwang Han (2019) – KAIST (graduate school)

  • Cheolgyu Jin (2020) – Samsung Research

  • Gyuyoung Gwak (2020) – Technical Research Personnel for Military Service, Tmax Soft

  • Ian Libao (2020) – KAIST (graduate school of curture technology)

  • Muhammad Tanvir (2021) – TBA

  • Jaeguk Ahn (2021) – TBA

  • Jaeyoung Choi (2021) – Samsung LSI

  • Sanghun Cho (2021) – KaKao Brain

  • Sangheon Lee (2021) – Samsung Memory

  • Gi Hong Do (2021) – Technical Research Personnel for Military Service, Nat Games

  • Jangpyo Lee (2022) – Samsung LSI

  • Jiheon Lee (2022) – Samsung LSI

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