VIA Research Group @ KAIST

Vertically Integrated Architecture Research

Welcome to VIA!

Vertically Integrated Architecture (VIA) research group is affiliated with the School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Semiconductor System Engineering, Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Graduate School of AI Semiconductor at KAIST, South Korea. We conduct research in the domain of computer architecture with a vertically integrated approach. By co-optimizing VLSI technology, computer system architecture, and application & algorithms, our mission is to build a high-performance computing platform for future "intelligent" systems that are programmable, robust, reliable, secure, and energy-efficient.

(Note) For students interested in undergraduate research internships or those who are applying to our research group for graduate studies, please send me an email with your latest CV and transcript.

(Latest News)

[June 12] Jiin has won the Excellence Award at the Global AI Research Leap (GARL) Challenge 2026 hosted by the National AI Research Lab (NAIRL). Congratulations Jiin!
[May 26] Our paper titled "ZipFlow: a Compiler-based Framework to Unleash Compressed Data Movement for Modern GPUs" has been accepted for presentation at the 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB-52), Boston, USA. Congratulations Gwangoo!
[February 28] Our paper titled "Agent-X: Full Pipeline Acceleration of On-device AI Agents" has been accepted for presentation at the 24th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys-24), Cambridge, United Kingdom. Congratulations Jinha, Byeongjun, and Jiin!
[February 25] Prof. Rhu has been appointed as the KAIST Endowed Chair Professor (KAIST 지정석좌교수).
[February 24] Our group has two papers accepted for presentation at the 63rd ACM/ESDA/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) (DAC-63), Long Beach, CA, Jul. 2026. Congratulations Jehyeon, Eunyeong, Jinha, Jiin, and Gwangoo!
[February 22] Jiwon successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! "Dr." Lee will be joining Samsung Electronics (Device Solutions) as a Staff Engineer. Congratulations and wish you all the best in your next journey!
[February 22] We have four graduate students joining our group this spring. Welcome aboard Seungjun, Kiho, Cheoljung, and Sihoon!
[December 17] Prof. Rhu received the 2025 KAIST College of Engineering Impact Research Award.
[December 13] Our group has a paper accepted for publication at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. Congratulations Hyesung and Dr. Hwang!
[November 8] Our group has three papers accepted for presentation at the 32nd International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-32), Sydney, Australia. Congratulations Jiin, Byeongjun, Jinha, Eunyeong, Jehyeon, and Dongjae!
[September 3] Prof. Rhu received the Best Teaching Award (EE312: Introduction to Computer Architecture) from the School of EE.
[August 25] We have three graduate students joining our group this fall. Welcome aboard Yokyung, Byeongkyu and Jiwoong!
[August 21] Ranggi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! "Dr." Hwang will be joining Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (울산과학기술원) as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations and wish you all the best in your next journey in academia!
[August 21] Yunjae successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! "Dr." Lee will be joining Samsung Electronics (Device Solutions) as a Staff Engineer. Congratulations and wish you all the best in your next journey!
[August 1] Our paper titled "Hera: A Heterogeneity-Aware Multi-Tenant Inference Server for Personalized Recommendations" has been accepted for presentation at the 34th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT-34), Irvine, CA. Congratulations Dr. Choi!
[July 1] Our paper titled "Mamba-X: An End-to-End Vision Mamba Accelerator for Edge Computing Devices" has been accepted for presentation at the 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-44), Munich, Germany. Congratulations Dongho, Gungyu, Jaewon, Yunjae, and Dongjae!

Google Sites

Report abuse