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