Youngjae Kim (PhD)
Professor, CSE, Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Co-Director: DISCOS (Data-IntenSive AI COmputing and Systems Laboratory)
Office: AS911, 35 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 04107
Tel: +82-2-705-8933, E-mail: youkim.AT.sogang.ac.kr
Research Interest
Infrastructure-Aware AI Systems: From Distributed Training to LLM Serving
High-Performance and Intelligent Storage Systems for Data-Intensive Workloads
Cross-Layer Design for Storage, Memory, and Compute in Large-Scale HPC Systems
Next-Generation Key-Value Stores: Performance, Efficiency, and Device Integration
Operating System and File System Support for ZNS, FDP, and SSDs
Next-Generation SSDs for AI: GPU-Direct and VectorDB Acceleration
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, 2009. (Advisor: Prof. Anand Sivasubramaniam)
M.S. in Computer Science, KAIST, Korea, 2021-2003. (Emeritus Prof. Seungryoul Maeng)
B.S. (honors) in Computer Science, Sogang University, Korea, 1995-2001. (Soldier, Korea Military Army, 1996-1998)
Experience
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Sogang University. (2016-Present)
Visiting Professor, Global Quality Reliability Assurance, SK hynix. (2025-2026)
Visiting Professor, Memory System Research, SK hynix. (Jul. 2022-Jun. 2023)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Ajou University. (2015-2016)
R&D Staff Member, US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA. (2009-2015)
Adjunct Professor, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA. (2011-2014)
Faculty Affiliate, The University of Tennessee, TN, USA. (2011-2015)
Research Engineer, Embedded OS Team, Embedded Software Center, ETRI, Daejeon, Korea. (2003-2004)
Recent Program Committee Services
(2026): DAC, SC, CCGRID, ICDCS, MASCOTS , ICPP, HotStorage
(2025): DAC, HPCA, CCGRID, CLUSTER, HotStorage