Youngjin Kwon is an Associate Professor in the school of computing at KAIST and a member of Computer Architecture and Systems Lab (CASYS)
He won best paper awards at ACM SOSP'24, SOSP'21 and USENIX ATC'18. Also, he is a recipient of KAIST's EWON Endowed Chair Professor (2021), Soo-Young Lee Teaching Innovation Award (2021), KAIST breakthrough (2023), Technology Innovation Award (2023).
Email: yjkwon at kaist.ac.kr
I am always looking for talented graduate students. If you are not a KAIST student, you first apply KAIST CS (korean link, english link)
I am also looking for undergraduate students (KAIST students only for now) to have fun research projects.
MTTM: Dynamic Fast Memory Partitioning with Bandwidth Optimization for Multi-tenant Cloud, EUROSYS 2026
BASK: Batch And SmartNIC-offloaded KSM, EUROSYS 2026
SAND: A New Programming Abstraction for Video-based Deep Learning, SOSP 2025
Scalable Address Spaces using Concurrent Interval Skiplist, SOSP 2025
Defeating Use-After-Free Bugs Using Memory Sweeper Without Stop-the-World, S&P 2025
Lossless Acceleration of Large Language Models with Hierarchical Drafting based on Temporal Locality in Speculative Decoding, NAACL 2025
Adios to Busy-Waiting for Microsecond-scale Memory Disaggregation, EuroSys 2025
OZZ: Identifying Kernel Out-of-Order Concurrency Bugs with In-Vivo Memory Access Reordering, SOSP 2024, Best paper award
BUDAlloc: Defeating Use-After-Free Bugs by Decoupling Virtual Address Management from Kernel, USENIX SECURITY 2024
Identifying On-/Off-CPU Bottlenecks Together with Blocked Samples, USENIX OSDI 2024
PRIMO: A Full-Stack Processing-in-DRAM Emulation Framework for Machine Learning Workloads, ICCAD 2023
EnvPipe: Performance-preserving DNN Training Framework for Saving Energy, USENIX ATC 2023
SEGFUZZ: Segmentizing Thread Interleaving to Discover Kernel Concurrency Bugs through Fuzzing, IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2023.
Diagnosing Kernel Concurrency Failures with AITIA, EuroSys 2023
DiLOS: Do Not Trade Compatibility for Performance in Memory Disaggregation, EuroSys 2023, Best-paper runner-up.
Rearchitecting the TCP Stack for I/O-Offloaded Content Delivery, NSDI 2023
CS492 special topics: virtualization 2018 Fall, 2023 Spring
CS330 Operating systems and labs 2019 Spring, 2020 Spring, 2021 Spring, 2022 Spring, 2023 Fall, 2025 Fall
CS530 Graduate operating systems 2019 Fall, 2020 Fall, 2021 Fall, 2022 Fall, 2024 Spring
Program Committees
2026: ASPLOS, EUROSYS
2025: SOSP, EUROSYS, ASPLOS, MICRO, HotOS, HotStorage, APSYS
2024: OSDI, ATC, FAST, ASPLOS, EUROSYS, SYSTOR, HotStorage
2023: ATC, EUROSYS, SYSTOR, APSYS
2022: FAST, USENIX ATC, HotStorage, APSYS
2021: ATC, SYSTOR, ANCS, APSYS, EuroDW
2020: ATC, MSST, APSYS
2019: ASPLOS (external), VEE, MSST, APSYS
2018: SOCC
Organizing Committee
General Co-Chair, SOSP 2025
Student Volunteer Chair, Mobisys 2019
Guest editor
ACM Transactions on Storage
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
ACM Transactions on Computers