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News

• [Jul. 2025] Kilho Lee invited to serve on the Artifact Evaluation Chair of IEEE RTSS'25.

• [Jul. 2025] A paper, entitled "Mitigating Resource Contention for Responsive On-device Machine Learning Inferences", has been accepted to IEEE/ACM ICCAD'25.

• [May. 2025] CROS-RT was selected as the Best paper award at IEEE RTAS'25.

• [Apr. 2025] Kilho Lee was awarded the SSU fellowship professor in 2023 and 2024. 

• [Jan. 2025] A paper, entitled "CROS-RT: Cross-Layer Priority Scheduling for Predictable Inter-Process Communication in ROS 2", has been accepted to IEEE RTAS'25.

• [Jan. 2024] A paper, entitled "RT-Swap: Addressing GPU Memory Bottlenecks for Real-Time Multi-DNN Inference", has been accepted to IEEE RTAS'24.

• [Dec. 2023] A paper, entitled "Supporting Flexible and Transparent User Interface Distribution across Mobile Devices", has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).

• [May. 2023] A paper, entitled "MixMax: Leveraging Heterogeneous Batteries to Alleviate Low Battery Experience for Mobile Users", has been accepted to ACM MobiSys'23. 

• [Feb. 2023] A paper, entitled "SPET: Transparent SRAM Allocation and Model Partitioning for Real-time DNN Tasks on Edge TPU ", has been accepted to DAC'23. 

• [Oct. 2022] Team ICHTHUS won the 2nd prize! at the 2022 University Student Autonomous Driving Competition, MOTIE, Korea government. [Project] [Press]

• [Aug. 2022] A paper, entitled "MECaNIC: SmartNIC to Assist URLLC Processing in Multi-Access Edge Computing Platforms", has been accepted to IEEE ICNP'22. 

• [Apr. 2022] A paper, entitled "Supporting Ultra-Low Latency Mixed-Criticality Communication Using Hardware-Based Data Plane Architecture", has been accepted to Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA). 

• [Jan. 2022] A paper, entitled "DNN-SAM: Split-and-Merge DNN Execution for Real-Time Object Detection", has been accepted to IEEE RTAS'22. 

• [Oct. 2021] A paper, entitled "RT-SDN: Adaptive Routing and Priority Ordering for Software-Defined Real-Time Networking", has been accepted to IEEE Systems Journal. 

• [Oct. 2021] A paper, entitled "LaLaRAND: Flexible Layer-by-Layer CPU/GPU Scheduling for Real-Time DNN Tasks", has been accepted to IEEE RTSS'21.

• [Jun. 2021] Kilho Lee invited to serve on the TPC of IEEE ISORC'21 and the TPC of IEEE RTSS@Work'21.

• [Oct. 2020] Kilho Lee invited to serve on the Finance Chair of IEEE RTCSA'20.

• [Jun. 2020] MISys Lab. has been launched  at Soongsil University. 

Research

Interests

• Cyber-Physical Systems

  • Autonomous driving systems, Real-time and embedded AI/computing/networking systems.

• System Software

  • Real-time/Embedded/Mobile OS.

Highlights

• ICHTHUS, Autonomous driving systems.

• FLUID, Flexible mobile UI distribution (MobiCom '19).

• FR-SDN, Supporting fault resilient real-time communication on SDN (RTAS '19).

• MC-SDN, Supporting mixed-criticality scheduling on SDN (RTSS '18). 

• GreenBag, Energy-efficient bandwidth aggregation for real-time streaming on mobile devices (RTSS '13).

Publications

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Work Experience and Education

• Assistant Professor, School of AI Convergence, Soongsil University, 2020 - Now.

• Post-doc., School of Computing, KAIST, 2019-2020.

• Ph.D., Computer Science, KAIST, 2019. 

• M.S., Computer Science, KAIST, 2012.

• B.S., Information and Computer Engineering & E-Business (double major), Ajou University, 2010.

Professional Activities

• Artifact Evaluation Chair: IEEE RTSS 2025

• Publication Chair: IEEE RTCSA 2024

• Publicity Chair: IEEE RTAS 2024

• Finance Chair: IEEE RTCSA 2020

• Technical Program Committee: IEEE RTSS@Work 2020 - 2023

• Technical Program Committee: IEEE ISORC 2021

• Technical Program Committee: IEEE WMC 2019

• Reviewer: IEEE ToN, IEEE TNSM, Elsevier MICPRO

• (External) Reviewer: IEEE RTSS, IEEE RTAS, IEEE IoT-J, ACM EMSOFT, IEEE ICNP

Awards and Honors

• Best paper award, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2025.

• SSU fellowship professor, Soongsil University, 2023-2024.

• 2nd prize, University Student Autonomous Driving Competition, MOTIE, Korea government, 2022.

• Best paper award, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2019.

• Post-Doc domestic training fellowship (Fostering next-generation researchers program), National Research Foundation (NRF), 2019-2020. 

• Outstanding Ph.D. dissertation award, KAIST, 2019.

• Research & conference presentation grant, KAIST-D'LIVE, 2018.

• Student travel grant, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2018.

• Best paper award, Korea Computer Congress (KCC), 2018

• Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA), 2014.

• Computer science graduate student scholarship, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), 2012-2015.

Previous news 

• (Before joining SSU)

• [Mar. 2020] Kilho Lee was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Dept. of Smart Systems Software at Soongsil University. 

• [Oct. 2019] Our paper was selected as the Best Paper Award at ACM MobiCom'19.

• [Sep. 2019] A paper, entitled "Battery Aging Deceleration for Power-Consuming Real-Time Systems", has been accepted to IEEE RTSS'19.

• [Aug. 2019] Kilho Lee received Post-Doc Domestic Training Fellowship from National Research Foundation of Korea.

• [Jul. 2019] A paper, entitled "FLUID: Flexible User Interface Distribution for Ubiquitous Multi-device Interaction", has been accepted to ACM MobiCom'19.

• [May. 2019] A paper, entitled "MC-SDN: Supporting Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Communication Using Software-Defined Networking" (extended version of RTSS 2018), has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 

• [May. 2019] A paper, entitled "JMC: Jitter-based Mixed-Criticality Scheduling for Distributed Real-Time Systems", has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 

• [Apr. 2019] A paper, entitled "Fault-Resilient Real-Time Communication Using Software-Defined Networking", was presented at IEEE RTAS'19.

• [Dec. 2018] A paper, entitled "MC-SDN: Supporting Mixed-Criticality Scheduling on Switched-Ethernet Using Software-Defined Networking", was presented at IEEE RTSS'18.