Dongjae Lee

Ph.D Electrical Engineering, KAIST (March 2024 ~ Present)

• Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu

M.S. Graduate School of AI, KAIST (March 2022 ~ February 2024)

• Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu

• Dissertation: Efficient DMA accelerator and memory mapping for supporting bank-level PIM

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Korea University (March 2016 ~ February 2022)

• Graduate with High Honor

• Dongho Yoon, Gungyu Lee, Jaewon Chang, Yunjae Lee, Dongjae Lee, and Minsoo Rhu, "Mamba-X: An End-to-End Vision Mamba Accelerator for Edge Computing Devices", The 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-44), Munich, Germany, Oct. 2025

  • Acceptance Rate: 24% (267 among 1079)

• Dongjae Lee, Bongjoon Hyun, Taehun Kim, and Minsoo Rhu, "PIM-MMU: A Memory Management Unit for Accelerating Data Transfers in Commercial PIM Systems," The 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-57), Austin, TX, Nov. 2024

  • Acceptance Rate: 22% (113 among 497)

• Dongjae Lee, Bongjoon Hyun, Taehun Kim and Minsoo Rhu, "Analysis of Data Transfer Bottlenecks in Commercial PIM Systems: A Study with UPMEM-PIM," IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2024

• Bongjoon Hyun, Taehun Kim, Dongjae Lee, and Minsoo Rhu, "Pathfinding Future PIM Architectures by Demystifying a Commercial PIM Technology," The 30th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-30), Edinburgh, UK, Feb. 2024

  • Best Paper Award

  • Selected for IEEE Micro Top Picks - Honorable Mention ("IEEE Micro - Special Issue on Top Picks from the 2024 Computer Architecture Conferences")

  • Acceptance rate: 18% (75 among 410)

Graduate research assistant, Vertically Integrated Architecture Research Group, KAIST (March 2022 ~ Present)

• Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu

Undergraduate research assistant, CSArch laboratory, Korea University (May 2021 ~ August 2021)

• Advisor: Prof. Gunjae Koo

• RISC-V in-order processor 'CVA6' analysis

Undergraduate research assistant, Vertically Integrated Architecture Research Group, KAIST (October 2020 ~ January 2021)

• Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu

• Tensor Processing Unit Simulator

• Artifact Evaluation Committee

  • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO): 2025

Student travel grant, The 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-57), 2024

HPCA 2024 Best Paper Award (Top 1 of 75 accepted papers)

Programming: C, C++, UPMEM-C, C#, CUDA, JAVA, Matlab, Verilog, SystemVerilog, Python, JavaScript