Biography
Ipoom Jeong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of System Semiconductor Engineering at Yonsei University and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University in 2020.
His professional experience includes serving as a Hardware Engineer in the Memory Business Division at Samsung Electronics (2020–2021), a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University (2021–2022), and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022–2024).
Interests
- Energy-Efficient CPU/GPU Microarchitectures
- High-Performance System Architectures
- Near-Data Processing (e.g., PIM, SmartSSD, and SmartNIC)
- Interconnect Technologies (e.g., CXL)
Education
PhD in Electrial and Electronic Engineering, 2020
Yonsei University
BS in Electrial and Electronic Engineering, 2014
Yonsei University
Experience
Assistant Professor
- Department of System Semiconductor Engineering
- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Research Topics: Energy-Efficient CPU/GPU Microarchitectures, High-Performance System Architectures, Near-Data Processing, Interconnect Technologies
Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Coordinated Science Lab (CSL)
- Principal Investigator (PI): Professor Nam Sung Kim
- Research Topics: Architectural Optimizations for Datacenters, CXL-Based Device Architectures, Smart-I/O Devices (SmartSSD, SmartNIC, etc.)
Research Professor
- BK21 Y-BASE R&E Institute, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Research Topics: Energy-Efficient CPU/GPU Microarchitectures, Processing-in-Memory (PIM) Architectures
Engineer/Staff Engineer
- Advanced Solution Development Team, Memory Business
- Research Topics: CXL-Based Accelerator/Memory Expansion Device Architectures, Computational Storage Drive (SmartSSD 2.0) SoC Architecture
Graduate Research Assistant
- Embedded Systems and Computer Architecture Lab (eSCaL)
- Advisor: Professor Won Woo Ro
- Research Topics: Energy-Efficient CPU/GPU Microarchitectures, Multi-Core Architectures
Teaching Assistant
- Undergraduate courses: Computer Architecture (EEE3530, 14-1st, 16-1st), Electrical and Electronic Engineering Experiments: Fundamentals (EEE2111, 14-2nd, 15-2nd), Graduation Research (15-1st)
- Graduate courses: Advanced Computer Architecture (E6501, 17-1st), System Design and Applications Lab (EEE6611, 18-1st, 18-2nd)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Embedded Systems and Computer Architecture Lab (eSCaL)
- Advisor: Professor Won Woo Ro
- Research Topics: Exploiting Back-end Fusion in Multi-Core Processors
Recent Publications
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(2025).
Time Series Machine Learning Models for Precise SSD Access Latency Prediction.
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (accepted).
(2025).
A4: Microarchitecture-Aware LLC Management for Datacenter Servers with Emerging I/O Devices.
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA).
(2025).
UPP: Universal Predicate Pushdown to Smart Storage.
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA).
(2025).
Intel® In-Memory Analytics Accelerator: Performance Characterization and Guidelines.
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS, Best Paper Honorable Mention, Distinguished Artifact Award).
(2025).
Warped-Compaction: Maximizing GPU Register File Bandwidth Utilization via Operand Compaction.
IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA).
Featured Publications
Projects
Basic Research Laboratory for Energy-Efficient, General-Purpose Multi-Modal AI with Heterogeneous Computing Accelerators
(Ongoing: 2025.06 - 2028.05)
(Ongoing: 2025.06 - 2028.05)
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Developing a simulation framework for CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing that supports processing of the state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms
Development of CXL-based PNM Architecture and Simulation Platform for LLM Acceleration
(Ongoing: 2024.04 - 2026.12)
(Ongoing: 2024.04 - 2026.12)
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT)
- Developing CXL-based PNM architecture and simulation platform
Development of PIM Software Architecture based on Data-Flow Computing
(Ongoing: 2024.04 - 2025.12)
(Ongoing: 2024.04 - 2025.12)
- Institute for Information & communication Technology Planning & evaluation (IITP)
- Developing software architecture for data-flow-based PIM devices
SmartSSD 2.0: Developing Next-Generation Computational Storage Drive
(2020.09 - 2021.08)
(2020.09 - 2021.08)
- Research and development project at Samsung Electronics
- Designing an SoC (System-on-Chip) for next-generation CSDs (Computational Storage Drives)
- A prototype was announced at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2022
Developing CXL-Based Accelerator and Memory Expansion Device
(2020.03 - 2020.08)
(2020.03 - 2020.08)
- Research and development project at Samsung Electronics
- Developing CXL (Compute eXpress Link) Type 2 accelerator and Type 3 memory expansion device by leveraging NAND flash
Developing CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Simulation Framework
(2019.02 - 2020.02)
(2019.02 - 2020.02)
- Research project at Yonsei University joint with SK Hynix
- Developing a simulation framework for CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing that supports processing of the state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms
Developing Energy-Efficient Approximate Memory for Neural Network Applications
(2018.07 - 2019.06)
(2018.07 - 2019.06)
- Research project at Yonsei University joint with SK Hynix
- Exploring an energy-efficient approximate memory architecture for deep learning applications
Developing Processor and Memory System for Next-Generation Security Platform
(2017.09 - 2018.08)
(2017.09 - 2018.08)
- Research project at Yonsei University joint with Samsung Electronics
- Developing ASIPs (Application-Specific Instruction-Set Processors) for cryptographic algorithms (e.g., AES, SHA-256, and RSA-2048)
Constructing a Verification Environment for Data Plane Acceleration and Performance Analysis
(2015.07 - 2015.12)
(2015.07 - 2015.12)
- Research project at Yonsei University joint with ETRI
- Developing and verifying optimization techniques for improving data plane acceleration in virtualized network environment
Developing Low-Power Mobile Computing Platform
(2014.07 - 2017.11)
(2014.07 - 2017.11)
- Research project at Yonsei University joint with LG Electronics
- Inter- and Intra-core optimization techniques for higher energy efficiency of mobile APs (Application Processors)
Recent & Upcoming Events
![[ISCA 2023 Tutorial] On-chip Accelerators in 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors: Features, Performance, Use Cases, and Future!](/talk/isca-2023-tutorial-on-chip-accelerators-in-4th-gen-intel-xeon-scalable-processors-features-performance-use-cases-and-future/featured_hu858e35732560ce6cb32414f0eaab3acc_333469_150x0_resize_q75_h2_lanczos_3.webp)
![[UIUC HACC Seminar] VersatileSSD: Breaking I/O Barrier by Leveraging SmartSSD](/talk/uiuc-hacc-seminar-versatilessd-breaking-i/o-barrier-by-leveraging-smartssd/featured_huc505ebe400d22100d0349334e53dd218_658998_150x0_resize_q75_h2_lanczos_3.webp)
Scholarships and Awards
[2021.11] Encouragement Prize at the Outstanding Patent Award (SK Hynix)
- Memory Device Including a Plurality of Area Having Different Refresh Periods, Memory Controller Controlling the Same and Memory System Including the Same
- US patent, Registered in 2022.03.15 (Application no: 16/988478, Registration no: 11276452)
[2020.02] Bronze Prize at the 26th Samsung Humantech Paper Award (Samsung Electronics)
- Ipoom Jeong, Seihoon Park
- CASINO Core Microarchitecture: Generating Out-of-Order Schedules Using Cascaded In-Order Scheduling Windows
[2019.11] Excellent Graduate Researcher Scholarship (Yonsei University)
[2018.02] Encouragement Prize at the 24th Samsung Humantech Paper Award (Samsung Electronics)
- Ipoom Jeong, Changmin Lee
- Cg-CMT: Expanding Instruction Window via Coarse-Grained Instruction Commit
[2010.03 - 2014.02] National Scholarship for Science and Engineering (KOSAF)
Activities
Tutorial Organizer
- On-chip Accelerators in 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors: Features, Performance, Use Cases, and Future!
- 50th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2023)
Invited Talk/Lecture
- IC Design Education Center (IDEC) Academy 2025
- Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE) SoC Conference 2025
- Yonsei University AI Plus Forum 2025
- Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) CSS Conference 2025
- IC Design Education Center (IDEC) Academy 2024
- Yonsei University EE Open Lab 2024
- Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE) SoC Conference 2024
Conference Chair
- Excursion chair: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) 2025
- Session chair: Korea Computer Congress (KCC) 2025
- Publication chair: Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) CSS Conference 2025
- Session chair: Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2022
External Reviewer Committee
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) 2025
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC)
- IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
- ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
- IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)
- IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)
- ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
- Microprocessors and Microsystems
Contact
- ipoom@yonsei.ac.kr
- 02-2123-5853
- 50, Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722