Youngjin Kwon is an Associate Professor in the school of computing at KAIST and a member of Computer Architecture and Systems Lab (CASYS)
He is a recipient of KAIST's EWON Endowed Chair Professor and Soo-Young Lee Teaching Innovation Award. He also won best paper awards at SOSP'21 and USENIX ATC'18.
His main research topics are:
Rethinking system software with Rust Language.
Improving performance of emerging machine learning workloads by new system supports.
Redesigning distributed file systems with new technologies such as non-volatile memory and SmartNIC.
Improving reliability of operating systems: detecting the root cause of kernel concurrency bugs, finding new Kernel bugs.
Designing systems for resource disaggregation.
Co-designing hardware and software for secure services.
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.
Recent publications
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
Memory Harvesting in Multi-GPU Systems with Hierarchical Unified Virtual Memory, USENIX ATC 2022
Serving Heterogeneous Machine Learning Models on Multi-GPU Servers with Spatio-Temporal Sharing, USENIX ATC 2022
Teaching
CS492 special topics: virtualization 2018 Fall, 2023 Spring
CS330 Operating systems and labs 2019 Spring, 2020 Spring, 2021 Spring, 2022 Spring, 2023 Fall
CS530 Graduate operating systems 2019 Fall, 2020 Fall, 2021 Fall, 2022 Fall, 2024 Spring
Professional services
Program Committees
2025: EUROSYS, ASPLOS
2024: USENIX OSDI, USENIX ATC, USENIX FAST, ASPLOS, EUROSYS, SYSTOR, HotStorage
2023: USENIX ATC, EUROSYS, SYSTOR, APSYS
2022: USENIX FAST, USENIX ATC, HotStorage, APSYS
2021: USENIX ATC, SYSTOR, ANCS, APSYS, EuroDW
2020: USENIX ATC, MSST, APSYS
2019: ASPLOS (external), VEE, MSST, APSYS
2018: SOCC
Guest editor
ACM Transactions on Storage
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
ACM Transactions on Computers
Organizing Committee
Student Volunteer Chair, Mobisys 2019