Members
Professor
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 ACM, IEEE, and NAI. 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. 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 250 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 6000 citations and the total number of citations of all his papers exceeds 16000. I was a recipient of many awards, including the IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Student Design Contest Award, Intel Fellowship, the IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) Best Paper Award, NSF CAREER Award, IBM Faculty Award, the University of Wisconsin Villas Associates Award, ACM/IEEE Most Influential International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) Paper Award, and IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) Test of Time Award, and Intel Outstanding Researcher Award. 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.
Students
| Name | Pursuing Degree | Research Area |
| Chihun Song | Ph.D. | Memory Systems |
| Jiaqi Lou | Ph.D. | Networking 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 Zhou | Ph.D. | Server Architectures and Systems |
| Jaeyoung Kang | Ph.D. | Accelerator Systems |
| Jinrui Hu | Ph.D. | Accelerator Architecture |
| Yang Zhou | Ph.D. | Near-data Acceleration Architecture |
| Bikrant Das Sharma | Ph.D. | Near-data Acceleration Architecture |
| David Sun | Ph.D. | CPU Architecture and Simulator |
| Qirong Xia | Ph.D. | ML Systems |
| Mike Montano | Ph.D. | Microarchitectural Security |
| Hongkun Zeng | Ph.D. | ML Systems |
| Jialiang Zhang | Ph.D. | Networking Systems |
| Nicholas Satchanov | Ph.D. | Near-data Acceleration Architecture |
| Austin Antony Cruz | Ph.D. | Memory system |
| Elijah Ye | M.S. | ML Systems |
| Dongming Liu | M.S. | Memory Systems |
| Frey Zhao | M.S. | Memory Systems |
| Wesley Wu | M.S. | Networking Systems |
| Yu Li | M.S. | Networking Systems |
| Xuanbo Jin | M.S. | Networking Systems |
| Pradyun Narkadamilli | M.S. | CPU Microarchitecture |
| Vinit Gupta | M.S. | Accelerator System |
| Yicheng Zhou | M.S. | Networking Systems |
| Hrishi Shah | M.S. | ML Systems |
| Nathan Chiang | M.S. | Networking Systems |
| Aniket Chatterjee | M.S. | ML Systems |
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 | |
| 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 |
| Houxiang Ji | SK hynix |
| Jinghan Huang | Meta |
1 Co-advised with Professor Katherine Morrow.
2 Co-advised with Professor Mikko Lipasti.