- Joseph Ro (๋
ธ์์
) (MS, 2025), Enrolling in a PhD program at Indian Institute Of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) ย 
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ผ๋ฌธ: ZNS-Support ํ์ผ์์คํ
์์ Predictive-Append ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ํ์ฉํ Zone ๋ด I/O ๋ณ๋ ฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Methods for Intra-Zone I/O Parallelism Using Predictive-Append Model in ZNS-Support File System
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2025 (Awarded Albatross Scholarship)
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2023
 
- Yoo-Chan Kim (๊น์ ์ฐฌ) (MS, 2025), now at Dnotitia 
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ผ๋ฌธ: ํด๋ผ์ฐ๋ ์์ ํน์ฑ์ ํ์ฉํ 2๋จ๊ณ ์ํคํ
์ฒ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋น์ฉํจ์จ์ ์ธ ๋์คํฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ GNN ํ์ต ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Leveraging Cloud Resource Characteristics for Cost-Efficient Disk-based GNN Training via Two-Level Architecture
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2025
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2023
 
- Junghwan Park (๋ฐ์ ํ) (MS, 2025), now at Korea Aerospace Industries, KAI (ํ๊ตญํญ๊ณต์ฐ์ฃผ์ฐ์
) 
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ผ๋ฌธ: DRAM ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ์ด์ ๋
ธ๋ ๋ณต์ ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ ๊ณ ์ฅ ํ์ฉ ๊ณ ์ฑ๋ฅ ๋ฅ๋ฌ๋ ์ฒดํฌํฌ์ธํธ ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์บ์ ์ค๊ณ
 Thesis: Design of a Fault-Tolerant High-Performance Deep Learning Checkpoint Write Cache Utilizing DRAM-Based Neighbor Node Replication
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2025
 BS, CSE/Korean Literature, Sogang University, 2023
 
- Seoyeong Lee (์ด์์) (MS, 2025), Enrolling in a PhD program at University of California, Merced 
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ผ๋ฌธ: HPC ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ณ๋ ฌ Utiilty์์์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ฐ ๋ฉํ๋ฐ์ดํฐ I/O ๋ณ๋ชฉ ์ ๊ฑฐ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Eliminating Data and Metadata I/O Bottlenecks in Parallel Utilities for HPC Environments
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2025
 BS, CSE/Chem, Sogang University, 2023
 
- Hamin Hangbo (ํฉ๋ณดํ๋ฏผ) (MS, 2024), now atย  Samsung Electronics DS
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ผ๋ฌธ: BlobDB์ ZNS ํ์ผ ์์คํ
์์ ๋์ผ Victim ์ ์ ์ ํตํ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ Garbage Collection ๊ธฐ๋ฒ
 Thesis: Towards A Unified Garbage Collection Strategy in ZNS Key- Value Store File Systems Using Same-Victim GC
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2024 (Awarded Albatross Fellowship)
 Software Engineer, LG CNS, (2021-2022)
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2021
 
- Seungjin Lee (์ด์น์ง) (MS, 2023), now at PhD Program at University of California, San Diego 
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ผ๋ฌธ: LSM-tree ๊ธฐ๋ฐ Key-Value SSD์์ ๋ฒ์ ์ง์๋ฅผ ์ํ Iterator Interface ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Iterator Interface Extended LSM-tree-based Key-Value SSDs for Range Queries
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2023 (Awarded Albatross Fellowship)
 BS, CSE/EE, Sogang University, 2021
 
- Yonghyeon Cho (์กฐ์ฉํ) (MS, 2023), now at LG Electronics
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ผ๋ฌธ: ํด๋ผ์ฐ๋ Spot VM์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ๋ถ์ฐ ๋ฅ๋ฌ๋ ์ํฌ๋ก๋์ ๊ฐ์ฉ์ฑ ์ง์์ ์ํ ์๊ฒฉ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ๋ค์ค ๋ ๋ฒจ ์ฒดํฌํฌ์ธํ
 ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: A Remote Memory-based Multilevel Checkpointing Framework to Support Availability of Distributed Deep Learning Workloads Using Cloud Spot VM
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2023 (Awarded Albatross Fellowship)
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2020
 
- Yeohyeon Park (๋ฐ์ฌํ) (MS, 2023), now at LG Electronics (CTO)
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํค-๊ฐ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ์ง ์์คํ
 ๋ฐ ๋ถํ ๋ถ์ฐ I/O ์ค์ผ์ฅด๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ฒ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: An Agile Network-Based Key-Value Storage System with Robust Load Orchestration
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2023
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2020
 
- Jungwook Han (ํ์ ์ฑ) (MS, 2023), now at Samsung Electronics DS
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ผ๋ฌธ: NUMA ์ธ์ง ๋นํ๋ฐ์ฑ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํ์ผ ์์คํ
์์ ๋์  ํ์ด์ง ์ด์ฃผ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ ๋ฐ ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Dynamic Data Migration Techniques and Algorithms in NUMA-aware Non-Volatile Memory-based File System
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2023 (Awarded Albatross Fellowship)
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2021
 
- Siu Jung (์ ์์ฐ) (MS, 2023),ย  now at Samsung Electronics DS
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ผ๋ฌธ: Zoned Namespace SSD ๋ด๋ถ Firmware์์์ Preemptive Zone Reset ๊ธฐ๋ฒ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Preemptive Zone Reset Design within Zoned Namespace SSD Firmware
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2023
 BS, CSE and French (double major), Sogang University, 2020
 
- Jinhoon Lee (์ด์งํ) (MS, 2023), now at TmaxSoft
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๋ฉํฐ ํ
๋ํธ ํด๋ผ์ฐ๋ ํ๊ฒฝ์์ ๊ฐ์ํ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ์ ์บ์ ํํฐ์
๋์ ๋ํ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: A Study on Cache Partitioning of Virtualized Memory in Multi-Tenant Cloud Environment
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2023
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2021
 
- Abdul Salam (MS, 2022), now at Ensล Lab (Technical Lead Engineer), Dubai, UAE
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ผ๋ฌธ: NVM ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ๋ฉ๋์ฝ์ด ์๋ฒ๋ฅผ ์ํ ํ์ฅ์ฑ ์๋ ์์์ ์ธ R-Tree ์ค๊ณ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Towards Scalable and Persistent R-Tree for Non-Volatile Memory based Many-core Machines
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2022 (Awarded Sogang Global Fellowship)
 BS, Computer Systems Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
 
- Soon Hwang (ํฉ์) (MS, 2022), now at Samsung Electronics DS
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๋งค๋์ฝ์ด ์๋ฒ์์ F2FS ํ์ผ ์์คํ
์ ๋ฉํ๋ฐ์ดํฐ I/O ํ์ฅ์ฑ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Enabling Metadata I/O Scalability in F2FS on a Manycore Server
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2022
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2020
 
- Hee-Rock Lee (์ดํฌ๋ฝ) (MS, 2022), previously at LG Electronics (CTO), now at Samsung Electronics DS
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ผ๋ฌธ: Zoned Namespace SSD์์ LSM-tree ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํค-๊ฐ ์คํ ์ด์ Compaction์ ์ธ์งํ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ์ Zone ๋ฐฐ์น ๊ธฐ๋ฒ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Compaction-Aware Zone Allocation for LSM-tree based Key-Value Store on Zoned Namespace SSD
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2022
 BS, CSE and Philosophy (double major), Sogang University, 2020
 
- Joongeon Park (๋ฐ์ค์ธ) (MS, 2021), previously at Hyundai AutoEver, now at Samsung Electronics DS
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ผ๋ฌธ: ํ์ด๋ธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ํ๊ฒฝ์์ ๋จธ์ ๋ฌ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ๊ณผ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ํ๋์จ์ด ํน์ฑ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ํ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์ค๋ธ์ ํธ ๋ฐฐ์น ๊ธฐ๋ฒ ๊ฐ์  ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Improvement of Heap Memory Object Placement Considering Machine Learning Technique and Memory Hardware Characteristics in Hybrid Memory System
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2021
 BS, Information and Communication, Myungji University, 2018
 
- Jiyun Park (๋ฐ์ง์ค) (MS, 2021), now at LG Electronics
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๋์ฌ์จ์ด ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ๋ฐฉ์ด SSD์์ ์ ์ ์  ๋์ฌ์จ์ด ๊ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ํตํ ํฌ๊ทธ๋ผ์ด๋ I/O ์ง์ฐ ์๊ฐ ๋จ์ถ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Reducing Foreground I/O Latency via Preemptive Ransomware Detection on Ransomware Attack Tolerant SSD
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2021
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2019
 
- Jung-Hyung Kim (๊น์คํ) (MS, 2021) (Co-advised with Prof. Sungyong Park), now at LG Electronics (CTO)
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๋งค๋์ฝ์ด ์๋ฒ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๋นํ๋ฐ์ฑ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ํ์ผ์์คํ
์ I/O ์ฑ๋ฅ ์ต์ ํ
 Thesis: Optimizing I/O Performance of Non-volatile Memory File System for Manycore server
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2021
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2019
 
- Yonghyuk Yoo (์ ์ฉํ) (MS, 2021), now at TmaxSoft
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ผ๋ฌธ: ์ด๊ธฐ์ข
 GPU ํด๋ฌ์คํฐ ํ๊ฒฝ์์ ๋ฅ๋ฌ๋ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ GPU ์ฒ๋ฆฌ์จ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ํ์ดํผ ํ๋ผ๋ฏธํฐ ์ต์ ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: GPU-Aware Scheduling Framework for Hyper Parameter Optimization Acceleration in Heterogeneous GPU Cluster
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2021
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2019
 
- Yungwoo Ko (๊ณ ์์ฐ) (MS, 2021), previously at TmaxSoft and Hyundai AutoEver, ย now at PhD Program at University of Floridia
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ผ๋ฌธ: ST-WORM: Intel SGX์ TPM์ ์ด์ฉํ WORM ์คํ ๋ฆฌ์ง ๋ณดํธ
 Thesis: ST-WORM: Securing WORM Storage with Intel SGX and TPM
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2021
 BS, CSE and English Culture (double major), Sogang University, 2019
 
- Min-Gyo Jung (์ ๋ฏผ๊ต) (MS, 2021) (Co-advised with Prof. Sungyong Park ), now at Vuno
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ผ๋ฌธ: SPDK๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ Log-Structured Merge Tree ๊ธฐ๋ฐ Computational Storage Device ์ค๊ณ ๋ฐ ๊ตฌํ
 Thesis: Design and Implementation of Log-Structured Merge Tree based Computational Storage Device using SPDK
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2021
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2019
 
- Jinwoo Ahn (์์ง์ฐ) (MS, 2020), now at Samsung Research 	
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ณ์กฐ ๋ฐฉ์ด๋ฅผ ์ํ TEE ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ์ง ์์คํ
 ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: TEE-based Storage System for Robust Data Tampering Defense
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2020 (Awarded Albatross Fellowship)
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2018
 
- Sunghyun Noh (๋
ธ์ฑํ) (MS, 2020), now at Samsung Electronics DS
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๋งค๋์ฝ์ด ํ๊ฒฝ์์ F2FS ํ์ผ ์์คํ
์ ๋จ์ผ ํ์ผ I/O ๋ณ๋ ฌํ
 Thesis: Parallelizingย  Shared File I/O Operations in F2FS on Manycore Servers
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2020
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2018
 
- Donghyun Min (๋ฏผ๋ํ) (MS, 2019), now at PhD Program at Sogang University 
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๋์ฌ์จ์ด ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ณ์กฐ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ๋ฐฉ์ด๋ฅผ ์ํ ๋จธ์ ๋ฌ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ๋ฐฑ์
 SSD ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: A Machine Learning-Based Backup SSD against Ransomware Data Attack
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2019
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2017
 
- Jangwoong Kim (๊น์ฅ์
) (MS, 2019) (Co-advised with Prof. Sungyong Park), previously at TmaxSoft, now at MOREH
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๋ฒ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ๋ฝํน์ ์ด์ฉํ ๋นํ๋ฐ์ฑ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ํ์ผ์์คํ
์ ๋จ์ผ ํ์ผ ์ฐ๊ธฐ ๋ณ๋ ฌํ
 Thesis: Single File Write Parallelization of A Non-volatile Memory Filesystem Using Range Locking
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2019
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2017
 
- Dong-Gyu Park (๋ฐ๋๊ท) (MS, 2019) (Co-advised with Prof. Sungyong Park), now at TmaxSoft
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ผ๋ฌธ: P2P DMA ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ด์ฉํ GPU์ ํค-๊ฐ SSD์ ์ง์  I/O ํ๋ ์์ํฌ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: GPUKV: A Direct IO Framework between GPU and Key-Value SSD using PCIe Peer-to-Peer DMA Support on GPU
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2019 (Awarded Albatross Fellowship)
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2017
 
- Hyunki Byun (๋ณํ๊ธฐ) (MS, 2019), now at TmaxSoft
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ผ๋ฌธ: ๋นํ๋ฐ์ฑ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ ํ์ด๋ธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ก๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํ์ผ์์คํ
 ์ค๊ณ ๋ฐ ๊ตฌํ
 Thesis: Design and Implementation of A Hybrid Log-structured File System using Non-Volatile Memory
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2019
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2017
 
- Taeuk Kim (๊นํ์ฑ) (MS, 2019), previously at TmaxSoft, now at LINE Plus
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ผ๋ฌธ: ํ์ด๋ธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์์คํ
์์ ์๋์ง ์๋ชจ ์ ์ฝ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ํ ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์ค๋ธ์ ํธ ๋ฐฐ์น ์ต์ ํ ์ฐ๊ตฌ
 Thesis: Optimizing Heap Memory Object Placement in the Hybrid Memory System with Energy Constraints
 MS, CSE, Sogang University, 2019
 BS, CSE, Sogang University, 2017