Jehyeon Bang

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

Ph.D. student in School of Electrical Engineering (Mar. 2023 ~ Present)

• Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu

M.S. in School of Electrical Engineering (Mar. 2021 ~ Feb. 2023)

• Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu

B.S. in School of Electrical Engineering (Mar. 2016 ~ Feb. 2021)

• Minor in School of Computing

• Jehyeon Bang, Eunyeong Cho, Ranggi Hwang, Jinha Chung, and Minsoo Rhu, "SpecMoE: A Fast and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Inference via Self-Assisted Speculative Decoding," The 63rd ACM/ESDA/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC-63), Long Beach, CA, Jul. 2026

  • [Paper]

• Eunyeong Cho, Jehyeon Bang, Ranggi Hwang, and Minsoo Rhu, "PASCAL: A Phase-Aware Scheduling Algorithm for Serving Reasoning-based Large Language Models," The 32nd IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-32), Sydney, NSW, Australia, Feb. 2026

  • Acceptance rate: 20% (119 among 602)

  • [Paper]

• Yunjae Lee*, Juntaek Lim*, Jehyeon Bang, Eunyeong Cho, Huijong Jeong, Taesu Kim, Hyungjun Kim, Joonhyung Lee, Jinseop Lim, Ranggi Hwang, Se Jung Kwon, Dongsoo Lee, Minsoo Rhu, "Debunking the CUDA Myth Towards GPU-based AI Systems: Evaluation of the Performance and Programmability of Intel's Gaudi NPU for AI Model Serving," The 52nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-52), Tokyo, Japan, June 2025

  • * Co-first authors

  • Acceptance rate: 23% (132 among 570)

  • [Paper]

• Eunyeong Cho, Jehyeon Bang, and Minsoo Rhu, "Characterization and Analysis of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models," IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 2024

  • [Paper]

• Jehyeon Bang, Yujeong Choi, Myeongwoo Kim, Yongdeok Kim, and Minsoo Rhu, "vTrain: A Simulation Framework for Evaluating Cost-effective and Compute-optimal Large Language Model Training," The 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-57), Austin, TX, Nov. 2024

  • Acceptance rate: 23% (113 among 497)

  • [Paper] [Code] [Slides]

Undergraduate research intern at Vertically Integrated Architecture Research Group, KAIST

• Dec. 2019 ~ Feb. 2020 / Nov. 2020 ~ Feb. 2021

Intern at Kohyoung Technology R&D Center, Yongin

• Feb. 2019 ~ Aug. 2019

Intern at SK Hynix, Cheongju

• Jun. 2018 ~ Aug. 2018

Artifact Evaluation Committee

• IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA): 2026

Teaching Assistant (KAIST)

• EE209: Programming Structure for Electrical Engineering (2023-Fall)

• EE217: Introduction to Modern Software Development (2025-Fall)

• EE312: Introduction to Computer Architecture (2023-Spring, 2024-Spring, 2025-Spring)

• EE514: Parallel Computer Architecture (2024-Fall)

Programming Languages

• Preference in Python, C/C++

• Experience in Java, Verilog

Platforms / Frameworks

• Ubuntu, PyTorch, CUDA, CUPTI