Ipoom Jeong

Ipoom Jeong

Assistant Professor

Yonsei University

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
March 2024 – Present Seoul, Korea
  • 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
September 2022 – February 2024 Illinois, USA
  • 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
September 2021 – August 2022 Seoul, Korea
  • 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
March 2020 – August 2021 Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
  • 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
March 2014 – February 2020 Seoul, Korea
  • Embedded Systems and Computer Architecture Lab (eSCaL)
  • Advisor: Professor Won Woo Ro
  • Research Topics: Energy-Efficient CPU/GPU Microarchitectures, Multi-Core Architectures
 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assistant
March 2014 – February 2020 Seoul, Korea
  • 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
August 2013 – February 2014 Seoul, Korea
  • 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).

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(2025). A4: Microarchitecture-Aware LLC Management for Datacenter Servers with Emerging I/O Devices. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA).

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(2025). UPP: Universal Predicate Pushdown to Smart Storage. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA).

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(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).

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Projects

Basic Research Laboratory for Energy-Efficient, General-Purpose Multi-Modal AI with Heterogeneous Computing Accelerators
(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
Basic Research Laboratory for Energy-Efficient, General-Purpose Multi-Modal AI with Heterogeneous Computing Accelerators <br> (Ongoing: 2025.06 - 2028.05)
Development of CXL-based PNM Architecture and Simulation Platform for LLM Acceleration
(Ongoing: 2024.04 - 2026.12)
  • Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT)
  • Developing CXL-based PNM architecture and simulation platform
Development of CXL-based PNM Architecture and Simulation Platform for LLM Acceleration <br> (Ongoing: 2024.04 - 2026.12)
Development of PIM Software Architecture based on Data-Flow Computing
(Ongoing: 2024.04 - 2025.12)
  • Institute for Information & communication Technology Planning & evaluation (IITP)
  • Developing software architecture for data-flow-based PIM devices
Development of PIM Software Architecture based on Data-Flow Computing <br> (Ongoing: 2024.04 - 2025.12)
SmartSSD 2.0: Developing Next-Generation Computational Storage Drive
(2020.09 - 2021.08)
SmartSSD 2.0: Developing Next-Generation Computational Storage Drive <br> (2020.09 - 2021.08)
Developing CXL-Based Accelerator and Memory Expansion Device
(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 CXL-Based Accelerator and Memory Expansion Device <br> (2020.03 - 2020.08)
Developing CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Simulation Framework
(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 CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing Simulation Framework <br> (2019.02 - 2020.02)
Developing Energy-Efficient Approximate Memory for Neural Network Applications
(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 Energy-Efficient Approximate Memory for Neural Network Applications <br> (2018.07 - 2019.06)
Developing Processor and Memory System for Next-Generation Security Platform
(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)
Developing Processor and Memory System for Next-Generation Security Platform <br> (2017.09 - 2018.08)
Constructing a Verification Environment for Data Plane Acceleration and Performance Analysis
(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
Constructing a Verification Environment for Data Plane Acceleration and Performance Analysis <br> (2015.07 - 2015.12)
Developing Low-Power Mobile Computing Platform
(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)
Developing Low-Power Mobile Computing Platform <br> (2014.07 - 2017.11)

Recent & Upcoming Events

[ISCA 2023 Tutorial] On-chip Accelerators in 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors: Features, Performance, Use Cases, and Future!
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2023 Tutorial
[ISCA 2023 Tutorial] On-chip Accelerators in 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors: Features, Performance, Use Cases, and Future!

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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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