News
2024
[July 3] Prof. Rhu is inducted into the ISCA Hall of Fame.
[July 2] Prof. Rhu promoted to Tenured Associate Professor.
[June 22] Our group has a paper accepted for publication at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. Congratulations Dongho and Taehun!
[June 10] Prof. Rhu is appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers.
[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!
2023
[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 !
2022
[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!
2021
[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 spring. Welcome aboard Eunyeong / Junseo / Sunho!
[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 / Jehyun!
[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!
2020
[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 Ji-yin / 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 / Ji-yin / 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).
2019
[December 01] Prof. Rhu, Minsoo is now jointly affiliated with Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at KAIST as an adjunct professor.
[November 19] Our paper titled "NeuMMU: Architectural Support for Efficient Address Translations in NPUs" has been accepted for presentation at the 25th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-25), Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2020. Congratulations Bongjoon, Youngeun, and Yujeong!
[November 07] Our paper titled "PREMA: A Predictive Multi-task Scheduling Algorithm For Preemptible Neural Processing Units" has been accepted for presentation at the 26th IEEE International Symposium High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-26), San Diego, CA, February 2020. Congratulations Yujeong!
[August 21] Youngeun has won the prestigious Global Ph.D. Fellowship Award from the National Research Foundation of Korea. Congratulations!
[July 26] Our paper titled "TensorDIMM: A Practical Near-Memory Processing Architecture for Embeddings and Tensor Operations in Deep Learning" has been accepted for presentation at the 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-52), Columbus, OH, Oct. 2019. Congratulations Youngeun and Yunjae!
[July 12] Our paper titled "A Disaggregated Memory System for Deep Learning" has been accepted for publication at IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Machine Learning Acceleration, Sep/Oct. issue. Congratulations Youngeun!
[April 04] Yujeong has won the Best TA Award for her contributing role as head TA in EE312: Introduction to Computer Architecture course in Fall 2018. Congratulations Yujeong!
[February 26] We have two graduate students and one undergraduate research intern joining us this spring. Welcome aboard Ranggi / Yoonjae / Jinha!
[January 30] Our group will be joining the SK Hynix-KAIST Artificial Intelligence Research Center (SKAI-RC), a collaborative research center between KAIST-EE and SK Hynix.
2018
[December 13] We have four undergraduate research interns joining us this winter. Welcome aboard Yunseong / Seyoung / Gangmin / Inje!
[July 26] Our group will be joining the Engineering Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (ERC-AI), a collaborative research center between KAIST, Seoul National University, and Sungkyunkwan University (funding period: 6 years).
[July 19] Our paper titled "Beyond the Memory Wall: A Case for Memory-centric HPC System Architecture for Training Deep Neural Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 51st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-51), Fukuoka, Japan 2018. Congratulations Youngeun!
[January 17] Our group will be joining the Neural Processor Research Center (NPRC), a collaborative research center between Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Seoul National University, KAIST, and POSTECH (related articles: [1] [2] [3])
2017
[October 20] Our paper titled "Compressing DMA Engine: Leveraging Activation Sparsity for Training Deep Neural Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 24th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-24), Vienna, Austria, February 2018.
[July 11] Our group's proposal (Primary Investigator: Prof. Rhu, Minsoo) on developing a "scalable and energy-efficient HPC systems for deep learning" has been awarded the prestigious Samsung Future Technology Foundation (삼성전자 미래기술 육성센터) research grant (funding period: 3+ years). Our proposal was the highest rated proposal (대표 과제) submitted this year!
[July 03] Our paper titled "GPUpd: A Fast and Scalable Multi-GPU Architecture Using Cooperative Projection and Distribution" has been accepted for presentation at the 50th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-50), Boston, MA, October 2017.
[March 07] Our paper titled "SCNN: An Accelerator for Compressed-sparse Convolutional Neural Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 44th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-44), Toronto, ON, Canada, June 2017.