Hyeseong Kim

Computer Architecture: Domain-specific accelerators, GPU architectures, and architecture/performance modeling

Computer Systems for AI: Training/serving systems for LLMs, recommendation systems, RAG, and agentic AI

AI Infrastructure: Datacenter architectures and emerging memory/storage systems for large-scale AI deployments

Ph.D. Student in School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST 

2025.03 – Present

Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu 

M.S. in School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST 

2023.03 – 2025.02

Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu 

B.S. in School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST 

Minor in School of Computing, KAIST

2017.03 – 2023.02

1. (Preprint) Hyeseong Kim, Gwangoo Yeo, and Minsoo Rhu, "SwarmIO: Towards 100 Million IOPS SSD Emulation for Next-generation GPU-centric Storage Systems," arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.06668, 2026

   • [Paper] [Code]

2. Yunjae Lee*, Hyeseong Kim*, and Minsoo Rhu, "PreSto: An In-Storage Data Preprocessing System for Training Recommendation Models," The 51st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-51), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jun. 2024

   • Acceptance Rate: 19% (83 among 423) 

   • [Paper]

3. Hyeseong Kim*, Yunjae Lee*, and Minsoo Rhu, "FPGA-Accelerated Data Preprocessing for Personalized Recommendation Systems," IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Nov. 2023 

   • [Paper]

*  Co-first authors who contributed equally to this research

KAIST

Undergraduate Research Intern, Vertically Integrated Architecture Research Group

2022.03 ~ 2023.02

Undergraduate Research Intern, Data Intelligence Lab

2021.12 ~ 2023.02

Samsung Electronics Co.

Summer Intern, MX Business (formerly Mobile Division (CE/IM))

2021.06 ~ 2021.08

KAIST (Teaching assistant) 

EE209: Programming Structure for Electrical Engineering

• • Fall 2023

EE305: Introduction to Electronics Design Lab

• • Fall 2025

EE312: Introduction to Computer Architecture

• • Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, and Spring 2026

Student Travel Grant, The 51st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-51), Jun. 2024