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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department of the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on Computer Architecture and Systems.

I work in the Berkeley Architecture Research (BAR) group and am affiliated with the SLICE lab (formerly ADEPT lab), advised by Sophia Shao and Borivoje Nikolić.

My research focuses on SoC integration and hardware-software co-design opportunities in multi-accelerator systems, spanning from hardware architecture and SoC design to system software and schedulers.

I also have contributed to the Gemmini project, an open-sourced platform for full-system, full-stack evaluation of DNN accelerators.

Prior to UC Berkeley, I earned B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University.

I have been awarded the IEEE Micro Top Pick in Computer Architecture (2023), the Best Paper Award (DAC 2021), and the Distinguished Artifact Award (ISCA 2023). I am selected as a 2024 Rising Star in EECS by MIT and 2023 ML and Systems Rising Star by MLCommons.

Education

University of California at Berkeley

Ph.D. in EECS (from 2019, in progress)

Seoul National University

B.S. in ECE, 2019

Publications

AuRORA: A Full-Stack Solution for Scalable and Virtualized Accelerator Integration

Seah Kim, Jerry Zhao, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic, Yakun Sophia Shao

IEEE Micro (Top Picks of 2023), July-August 2024.

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AuRORA: Virtualized Accelerator Orchestration for Multi-Tenant Workloads

Selected as one of "Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, 2023" 

Seah Kim, Jerry Zhao, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic, Yakun Sophia Shao

International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2023.

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DREAM: A Dynamic Scheduler for Dynamic Real-time Multi-model ML Workloads

Seah Kim, Hyoukjun Kwon, Jinook Song, Jihyuck Jo, Yu-Hsin Chen, Liangzhen Lai, Vikas Chandra

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Language and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2024.

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MoCA: Memory-Centric, Adaptive Execution for Multi-Tenant Deep Neural Networks

Seah Kim, Hasan Genc, Vadim Nikiforov, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic, Yakun Sophia Shao

International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), March 2023.

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Gemmini: Enabling Systematic Deep-Learning Architecture Evaluation via Full-Stack Integration

DAC Best Paper Award

Hasan Genc, Seah Kim, Alon Amid, Ameer Haj-Ali, Vighnesh Iyer, Pranav Prakash, Jerry Zhao, Daniel Grubb, Harrison Liew, Howard Mao, Albert Ou, Colin Schmidt, Samuel Steffl, John Wright, Ion Stoica, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Krste Asanovic, Borivoje Nikolic, Yakun Sophia Shao

Design Automation Conference (DAC), December 2021.

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RoSÉ: A Hardware-Software Co-Simulation Infrastructure Enabling Pre-Silicon Full-Stack Robotics SoC Evaluation

ISCA Distinguished Artifact Award

Dima Nikiforov, Shengjun Chris Dong, Chengyi Lux Zhang, Seah Kim, Borivoje Nikolic, Yakun Sophia Shao

International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2023.

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Work Experience

AI Research Scientist Intern

Meta, Sunnyvale, CA

2022 May - 2022 August

Special Project Group Intern

Apple, Cupertino, CA 

2021 May - 2021 August

Teaching Experience

Course

TA for EECS 151/251A Spring 2022 Introduction to Digital Design and Integrated Circuits [Link]

TA for CS 61C Fall 2020 Great ideas in Computer Architecture [Link]

Tutor for Analog Integrated Circuits Fall 2018

Tutorial

Full-System, Full-Stack ML SoC Architecture Research with FireSim, Chipyard, Gemmini and AuRORA, at MICRO 2024 [Link]

Speakers/Organizers: Seah Kim, Abraham Gonzalez, Jerry Zhao, Lux Zhang, Vikram Jain, Yufeng Chi

Awards

2024   Rising Stars in EECS [Link]

2024   AuRORA selected as IEEE Micro's Top Pick in Computer Architecture

2024   Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist

2023   Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star [Link]

2023   ISCA Distinguished Artifact Award [Link]

2023   Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist

2021   DAC best paper award [Link]

2020   IBM & IEEE CAS/EDS AI Compute Symposium Top Poster Award [Link] 

2019   UC Berkeley EECS Departmental Fellowship

Services

2024   IISWC Artifact Evaluation Committee