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Nam Sung Kim

 

I am the W.J. ‘Jerry’ Sanders III – Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a fellow of both ACM and IEEE. From 2018 to 2020, I was on leave to lead the development of next-generation DRAM products  which will change the computing paradigm at a major memory manufacturing company as a Sr. Vice President. Prior to joining the University of Illinois in the fall of 2015, I was an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where I was early-tenured in 2013. My interdisciplinary research incorporates device, circuit, architecture, and software for power-efficient computing. My research has been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), BAE Systems, AMD, IBM, Samsung, and Microsoft. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I was a senior research scientist at Intel from 2004 to 2008, where I conducted research in power-efficient digital circuit and process architecture. I have published more than 200 refereed articles to highly selective conferences and journals in the field of digital circuit, processor architecture, and computer-aided design. The top three most frequently cited papers have more than 4500 citations and the total number of citations of all his papers exceeds 12000. I was a recipient of the IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Student Design Contest Award in 2001, Intel Fellowship in 2002, the IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) Best Paper Award in 2003, NSF CAREER Award in 2010, IBM Faculty Award in 2011 and 2012, the University of Wisconsin Villas Associates Award in 2015, ACM/IEEE Most Influential International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) Paper Award in 2017, and IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) Test of Time Award, 2021. I am a hall of fame member of all three major computer architecture conferences, IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), MICRO, and ISCA. I earned a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Master and Bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Current Students

Name

Research Area

Jinghan Huang (Ph.D.)

Networking Systems

Houxiang Ji (Ph.D.)

Near-data Acceleration Architecture

Jiaqi Lou (Ph.D.)

Networking Systems

Chihun Song (Ph.D.)

Memory Systems

Hyungyo Kim (Ph.D.)

ML Systems

Siddharth Agarwal (Ph.D.)

CPU Architecture and Simulator

Yan Sun (Ph.D.)

Memory Systems

Jerry Wang (Ph.D.)

CPU Microarchitecture

Ha Neul Park (Ph.D.)

Server Architecture and Systems

Srikar Vanavasam (Ph.D.)

Networking Systems

Nachuan Wang (Ph.D.)

ML Systems

Kevin Zhuo (Ph.D.)

Server Architectures and Systems

Jaeyoung Kang (Ph.D.)

Accelerator Systems

Yang Zhuo (M.S.)

Near-data Acceleration Architecture

Howie Liu (M.S.)

Accelerator Architecture

Jinrui Hu (M.S.)

Accelerator Architecture

Past Ph.D. and Post-doctoral Students

Name

First Employment

Abhishek Sinkar

Oracle

Syed Gilani

AMD

Daniel Chang

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Jungseob Lee

Intel

Amin Farmahini1

Google

Hamid Reza Ghasemi

AMD

David Palframan2

ARM

Hao Wang

NVIDIA

Paula Aguilera1

Intel

Dahoon Kim (Post-doc)

Yonsei university

Michael Mishikin2

AMD

Zhenhong Liu

Samsung

Mohammad Alian

Kansas University

Yongseok Son (Post-doc)

Chung-Ang University

Ahmed Abulila

Microsoft

Yifan Yuan

Intel

Youjie Li

Meta

Dong Kai Wang

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ipoom Jeong (Post-doc)

Yonsei University as an assistant professor

 

 

 

 

1. Co-advised with Professor Katherine Morrow.

2. Co-advised with Professor Mikko Lipasti.