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.
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(Latest News)
[April 11] Yujeong successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis! "Dr." Choi will be joining Google, Sunnyvale, CA as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Congratulations and wish you all the best in your next journey in the Bay Area!
[March 30] Our group has a paper accepted for publication at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. Congratulations Dongjae, Bongjoon and Taehun!
[March 20] Our group members will be presenting three papers which are accepted at the 51st IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-51), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Congratulations Yujeong, Jiin, Yunjae, Hyeseong, and Ranggi!
[March 5] Our work on uPIMulator ("Pathfinding Future PIM Architectures by Demystifying a Commercial PIM Technology") won the Best Paper Award at HPCA-30! This is the first time a research group from Korea won a best paper award at a top-tier computer architecture conference. Congratulations Bongjoon, Taehun, and Dongjae!
[February 16] Youngeun successfully graduated with a Ph.D.! "Dr." Kwon will be joining NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA as a Senior Deep Learning Performance Engineer. Congratulations and wish you all the best in your next journey in the Bay Area!
[February 15] Ranggi received an internship offer to join NVIDIA Research this summer. He will be working as a research intern in the Architecture Research Group (ARG) at Austin, TX. Congratulations and have a great summer in the "greatest" city in the US :-)
[February 15] We have two graduate students joining our group this spring. Welcome aboard Gungyu and Jaewon!
[November 12] Our group has a paper accepted for publication at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. Congratulations Hyeseong and Yunjae!
[November 8] Our group has one paper accepted for presentation at the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-29), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2024. Congratulations Juntaek, Youngeun, and Ranggi!
[October 23] Our group has one paper accepted for presentation at the 30th IEEE International Symposium High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-30), Edinburgh, UK, February 2024. Congratulations Bongjoon, Taehun, and Dongjae!
[September 1] We have one graduate student joining our group this Fall. Welcome aboard Hyesung !
[May 15] Jinha will be joining Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) this upcoming summer~fall as a research intern. Congratulations!
[April 20] Prof. Rhu has won the prestigious Google Research Scholar Award.
[February 1] We have three graduate students joining our group this spring. Welcome aboard Eunyeong / Seongjin / Hyeseong !
[December 12] Prof. Rhu is elected as a member of the next generation Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST).
[November 30] Our group has a paper accepted for publication at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. Congratulations Seonho and Ranggi!
[November 22] Prof. Rhu is elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
[October 18] Our group has one paper accepted for presentation at the 29th IEEE International Symposium High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-29), Montreal, Canada, February 2023. Congratulations Ranggi, Minhoo, and Jiwon!
[October 05] Prof. Rhu is inducted into the MICRO Hall of Fame.
[September 16] Jinha has won the Best TA Award for his contributing role as head TA in EE209: Programming Structure for Electrical Engineering course in Spring 2022. Congratulations Jinha!
[September 08] Yujeong has won the prestigious Google Ph.D. Fellowship Award this year. Congratulations Yujeong!
[July 20] Our group has two papers accepted for presentation at the 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-55), Chicago, IL. Congratulations Beomsik, Ranggi, Dongho, and Yoonhyuk!
[June 28] We have one graduate student joining our group this fall. Welcome aboard Juntaek!
[June 27] We have three undergraduate research interns joining us this summer. Welcome aboard Eunjee / Jinwoo / Yoonsoo!
[May 01] Ranggi will be joining Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing this upcoming fall semester as a research intern. Congratulations!
[March 03] Our group has three papers accepted for presentation at the 49th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-49), New York, NY. Congratulations Yunjae, Jinha, and Youngeun!
[February 23] We have four undergraduate research interns joining us this spring. Welcome aboard Eunyeong / Joontaek / Hankyul / Hyeseong !
[February 22] Our paper titled "PARIS and ELSA: An Elastic Scheduling Algorithm for Reconfigurable Multi-GPU Inference Servers" has been accepted for presentation at the 59th ACM/ESDA/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, Jul. 2022. Congratulations Yunseong and Yujeong!
[February 21] We have four graduate students joining our group this spring. Welcome aboard Dongjae / Gwangoo / Jiin / Yoonhyuk!
[December 15] We have five undergraduate research interns joining us this winter. Welcome aboard Eunyeong / Sunho / Joontaek / Seungjae / Hankyul !
[September 27] Prof. Rhu, Minsoo received a Teaching Award (EE595: Parallel Computer Architecture) from the School of EE.
[September 27] Yujeong received a Research Award from the KAIST - Samsung DS Research Center. Congratulations Yujeong!
[September 10] Check out our article published at the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today discussing PIM (Processing-In-Memory) and disaggregated memory systems.
[September 01] Our group is awarded with 4 years of funding from the National Research Foundation (mid-career researcher program).
[August 30] We have three undergraduate research interns joining us this fall. Welcome aboard Eunyeong / Junseo / Sunho!
[August 30] We have one graduate student joining our group this fall. Welcome aboard Beomsik!
[July 19] Our group has two papers accepted for publication at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. Congratulations Yunjae, Bongjun, Youngeun, and Jiwon!
[July 15] Our paper titled "TRiM: Enhancing Processor-Memory Interfaces with Scalable Tensor Reduction in Memory" has been accepted for presentation at the 54th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-54), Athens, Greece, Oct. 2021.
[June 28] We have four undergraduate research interns joining us this summer. Welcome aboard Eunyeong / Gwangoo / Junseo / Sunho!
[March 03] We have three undergraduate research interns joining us this spring. Welcome aboard Gwangoo / Junseo / Sunho!
[March 02] We have two graduate students joining our group this spring. Welcome aboard Jinha / Jehyeon!
[February 27] Prof. Rhu is inducted into the HPCA Hall of Fame.
[February 16] Yujeong has won the Best TA Award (2nd time she's won this award!) for her contributing role as head TA in EE312: Introduction to Computer Architecture course in Fall 2020. Congratulations Yujeong!
[January 29] Our group has won the Gold Prize (1st place in the Computer Science and Engineering track) in the prestigious Samsung Humantech Paper Award. Congratulations Youngeun/Yunjae!
[January 10] Our paper on NeuMMU (published last year at ASPLOS-25) has been selected as one of the top 24 papers listed as IEEE Micro Top Picks - Honorable Mention! The featured article will be published on the May/June 2021 issue of "IEEE Micro - Special Issue on Top Picks from the 2020 Computer Architecture Conferences". Congratulations!
[December 21] We have five undergraduate research interns joining our group this winter. Welcome aboard Yoonhyuk / Hyuntae / Minwoo / Seungbin / Seunghyun!
[December 14] Check out our position article published at the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today on leveraging heterogeneous compute devices for accelerating multi-modal on-device AI.
[November 11] Our work on Tensor Casting has been featured in various press articles.
[October 28] Our group has three papers accepted for presentation at the 27th IEEE International Symposium High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-27), Seoul, Korea, February 2021. Congratulations Yujeong, Yunseong, Youngeun, and Yunjae!
[September 02] Our work on TensorDIMM has been featured in the fall 2020 version of KAIST Breakthroughs.
[September 01] Prof. Rhu, Minsoo promoted to associate professor.
[September 01] We have three undergraduate research interns joining us this summer. Welcome aboard Jiin / Beomsik / Yunjin !
[July 23] Our group will be joining a collaborative research consortium to develop processor architectures for high-performance computing (HPC) systems (funding period: 4 years)
[July 07] Our work on Centaur has been featured as an article at ETNews (전자신문).
[July 06] We have five undergraduate research interns joining us this summer. Welcome aboard Joonsuk / Jiin / Beomsik / Joonwon / Woojin!
[May 19] Dongho received 2020 Un Chong Kwan Scholarship Award granted by KAIST EE. Congratulations!
[May 14] Check out our position article published at the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today on leveraging Multi-Chip Modules (MCMs) for designing performance scalable and composable ML accelerators.
[April 23] Our group will be joining a collaborative research consortium to develop Next Generation Processor Architecture for Artificial Intelligence (funding period: 3 years)
[March 05] Our paper titled "Centaur: A Chiplet-based, Hybrid Sparse-Dense Accelerator for Personalized Recommendations" has been accepted for presentation at the 47th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architectural (ISCA-47), Valencia, Spain, June 2020. Congratulations Ranggi, Taehun, and Youngeun!
[March 02] We have three graduate students joining our group this spring. Welcome aboard Yunseong / Dongho / Minhoo!
[January 24] Youngeun received an internship offer to join Facebook, Menlo Park CA this summer. He will be working as a research intern at the AI Systems Co-Design team. Congratulations and have a great summer at the bay area!
[January 23] Prof. Rhu, Minsoo received the prestigious Facebook Faculty Research Award.
[January 13] Our paper on TensorDIMM (published last year at MICRO-52) has been selected as one of the top 26 papers listed as IEEE Micro Top Picks - Honorable Mention! The featured article will be published on the May/June 2020 issue of "IEEE Micro - Special Issue on Top Picks from the 2019 Computer Architecture Conferences". Congratulations!
[January 10] Our work on TensorDIMM has been featured as an article at ETNews (전자신문).