Changhee Jung

Changhee Jung is the Samuel D. Conte Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. His research focuses on compilers and computer architecture with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and security.

His educational background includes a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech (2013) under the supervision of Prof. Santosh Pande.

Professor Jung's research spans compilers and computer architecture with a focus on performance, reliability, and security. He has developed program analysis and microarchitecture optimization techniques for soft error resilience, concurrency bug detection, and system security such as memory safety and Linux kernel permission check. Currently, he is working on energy-efficient intermittent computation and nonvolatile memory crash consistency. He often leverages compiler-architecture codesign and repurposes existing hardware features to develop cost-effective solutions for complex computing challenges.

His recent publications demonstrate a clear trajectory toward intermittent computing systems, nonvolatile memory architectures, and security mechanisms for energy-constrained environments. His work shows innovative approaches to power failure recovery, capacitor vulnerability exploitation, and EMI attack defense in intermittent systems, with significant contributions to whole-system persistence, cache design, and prefetching techniques for low-power computing.

His notable scientific achievements include:

• NSF CAREER Award (2018)
• Inducted into MICRO Hall of Fame (2021)
• Best Paper Honorable Mention in ISCA 2025
• Memorable Paper Award Finalist in NVMW 2024
• Dissertation Advisor of 2023 ACM SIGBED Paul Caspi Memorial Dissertation Award winner Jongouk Choi
• 2017 AMD Faculty Research Award

Professor Jung has successfully advised numerous graduate students, many of whom have secured prominent positions at leading technology companies including Google, Intel, and Samsung Electronics. His lab, the CompArch (Compiler and Architecture) research group, was formed in 2013 at Virginia Tech and continues at Purdue, focusing on compiler-architecture cooperation to address cross-cutting concerns involving performance, reliability, and security. The lab has received significant research funding, including an NSF CAREER Award in 2018 and an AMD Faculty Research Award in 2017.