Ph.D. Student @ Vertically Integrated Architecture Research Group (VIALab)
School of Electrical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
Email: juntaek0425@kaist.ac.kr
Office: N1 818 @KAIST
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Education
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) [Feb. 2025 ~ Present]
Ph.D. in School of Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) [Sep. 2022 ~ Aug. 2024]
M.S. in School of Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Minsoo Rhu
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) [Mar. 2018 ~ Aug. 2022]
B.S. in School of Electrical Engineering
Minor in School of Computing
Summa Cum Laude
Experience
Undergraduate Research Intern at Vertically Integrated Architecture Research Group (VIALab), KAIST
Dec. 2021 ~ Aug. 2022
DNN accelerator: implementation of cycle-level simulator of SCNN & analysis of various DNN accelerators
Mixture of Experts (MoE): analysis of prior work related to MoE including GShard code
KAIST EE Co-op Internship at Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong
Mar. 2021 ~ Aug. 2021
Study of AXI protocol
Study of the tiling scheme and dataflow used in Exynos NPU
RTL design and synthesis for fetching unit (FU) of Exynos NPU
Publication
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-centric AI Systems," The 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-52), Tokyo, Japan, Jun. 2025
[Paper] [Code]
Juntaek Lim, Youngeun Kwon, Ranggi Hwang, Kiwan Maeng, Edward Suh, and Minsoo Rhu, "LazyDP: Co-Designing Algorithm-Software for Scalable Training of Differentially Private Recommendation Models," The 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-29), San Diego, CA, USA, Mar. 2024
Recognition
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, EE312: Introduction to Computer Architecture, Spring 2024 @KAIST
Teaching Assistant, EE209: Programming Structure for Electrical Engineering, Fall 2023 @KAIST
Teaching Assistant, EE312: Introduction to Computer Architecture, Spring 2023 @KAIST
Technical Skills
Programming Languages: Python, C, C++, CUDA, Verilog HDL, TPC-C
Machine Learning Frameworks: PyTorch