Suyeon Lee

CuRRENT RESEARCH Interests

Systems software and hardware-software co-design for memory-centric datacenters, from applications to operating systems and hardware architecture.

Areas: Disaggregated Memory · Computational Memory · Emerging Interconnects (CXL, UALink) · Sustainable Datacenter Infrastructure · Pre-silicon System Fidelity · AI-driven System Design (ADRS)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (CS), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, August 2022 ~ May 2027 (Expected)

• Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, September 2020 ~ February 2022 (Early Graduation)

• Exchange Student, School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technological University, Jurong West, Singapore, January 2019 ~ May 2019

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, March 2016 ~ August 2020 (Graduated Cum Laude)

Experience

• (UPCOMING) PhD Software Engineer Intern (Sys & Infra), Meta (@ Core Systems Datacenter Algorithm Research), Menlo Park, CA, USA, May 2026 ~ August 2026

• Research Intern, SK Hynix (@ Memory Systems Research), Seongnam, South Korea, May 2025 ~ August 2025

• Student Researcher, Google (@ Google Cloud), Remote (Seattle, WA, USA), September 2024 ~ December 2024

• Software Architect Intern, Intel Corporation (@ Intel Labs Architecture Strategy and Planning), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2024 ~ August 2024

• Research Associate Intern, Hewlett Packard Labs (@ Network and Distributed Systems Lab), Milpitas, CA, USA, May 2023 ~ May 2024

• Research Scholar, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Atlanta, GA, USA, January 2023 ~ Current

• Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, August 2022 ~ Current

• Computer Systems Researcher, Distributed Computing & Operating Systems Laboratory (DISCOS), Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, March 2022 ~ July 2022

• Graduate Research Assistant, Distributed Computing & Operating Systems Laboratory (DISCOS), Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, September 2020 ~ February 2022

• Undergraduate Research Assistant, Distributed Computing & Operating Systems Laboratory (DISCOS), Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, May 2019 ~ August 2020

• Web Develop Intern, Deep Bio Inc. (딥바이오), Seoul, South Korea, June 2019 ~ August 2019

• Google CodeU APAC Program Participant (Invite-only), Google Singapore, Remote Work in South Korea, May 2019 ~ August 2019

• Data Engineer (Summer Internship), Headstart Silicon Valley, CA, USA, June 2018 ~ July 2018

SELECTED Publications

• 1. Griffin: Coherency-Aware Task Scheduling and Memory Allocation for CXL Interconnects. Suyeon Lee, Khaled Diab, Diman Zad Tootaghaj, Lianjie Cao, Puneet Sharma, Ada Gavrilovska. ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS’26). July 2026.

  2. AXLE: Coordinated Offloading with Asynchronous Back-Streaming in Computational Memory Systems. Suyeon Lee, Kangkyu Park, Kwangsik Shin, Ada Gavrilovska. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'26). June 2026.

     • Asynchronous Streaming for (CXL-based) Computational Remote Memory. Suyeon Lee and Ada Gavrilovska. Doctoral Workshop (SySDW'24) in conjunction with Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'24). November 2024.

     • Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) TechCon. 2024 - 2025.

     • Center for Research into Novel Compute Hierarchies (CRNCH) Fellowship. 2024.

  3. Grudon: A System for Deploying Graph Analytics on Disaggregated Architectures with Near-Data Processing. Vishal Suresh Rao, Nikjil Ram Shashidhar, Suyeon Lee, Ada Gavrilovska. ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC’25). July 2025.

  4. dStream: An Online-based Dynamic Operator-level Query Mapping Scheme on Discrete CPU-GPU Architectures. Gyeonghwan Jung, Yeonwoo Jeong, Kyuli Park, Dongjae Lee, Hongsu Byun, Suyeon Lee, Sungyong Park. IEEE Access. December 2024.

  5. Towards Disaggregated NDP Architectures for Large-scale Graph Analytics. Suyeon Lee (*), Vishal Rao (*), and Ada Gavrilovska. International Workshop on RESource DISaggregation in High-Performance Computing (RESDIS'24) in conjunction with International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'24). November 2024. (*: Equal Contribution)

  6. An Autonomous Parallelization of Transformer Model Inference on Heterogeneous Edge Devices. Juhyeon Lee, Insung Bahk, Hoseung Ki, Sinjin Jeong, Suyeon Lee, and Donghyun Min. ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS’24). June 2024.

  7. MFence: Defending Against Memory Access Interference in a Disaggregated Cloud Memory Platform. Jinhoon Lee, Yeonwoo Jung, Suyeon Lee, Safdar Jamil, Sungyong Park, Kwangwon Koh, Hongyeon Kim, Kanho Kim, and Youngjae Kim. ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC’23). March 2023.

Honors & Awards

• [Fellowship] Center for Research into Novel Compute Hierarchies (CRNCH) Fellowship, CRNCH @ Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2024

• [Grant] OSDI'24 Conference Participation Grants, USENIX Conference Grant Program, Summer 2024

• [Fellowship] Kwanjeong Study Abroad Fellowship (관정해외유학장학금, PhD), Kwanjeong Educational Foundation (관정이종환교육재단), Fall 2022 ~ Fall 2026 (Expected)

• [Honor] Master's Degree with Early Graduation, Sogang University

• [Honor] Bachelor's Degree with Cum Laude, Sogang University

• [Award] The Encouragement Prize (장려상), Gas Station Imagination Project, SK Energy, March 2018

• [Scholarship] Government-funded Research Scholarships, Brain Korea 21, Fall 2020 ~ Fall 2021

• [Scholarship] Teaching Assistant scholarship, Sogang University, Fall 2020 ~ Spring 2021

• [Scholarship] 1986 Alumni Scholarships, Sogang University, Spring 2020

• [Scholarship] Sogang Global Scholarships, Sogang University, Fall 2018

• [Scholarship] Nanumteo Scholarships, Nanumteo Scholarship Association, Fall 2016

• [Scholarship] Seoul Youth Hope Scholarships, Seoul Scholarship Foundation, Spring 2016

Services

• Participation: ICS 2026, ISCA 2026, PRISM 2025-2024-2023, SRC TechCon 2025-2024, IEEE/ACM SC 2024, ACM SOSP 2024, USENIX OSDI/ATC 2024 (AEC), CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshop for Women 2024, HPE Tech Con 2024, SoCC 2022

• Teaching Experience: Advanced Operating Systems (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)

Languages: Korean (Native), English (Proficient), Portuguese (Beginner)

Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Scala, Java, SQL, noSQL