Hyesoon Kim

Hyesoon Kim is a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, affiliated with the College of Computing and leading the HPArch research group. She co-directs the Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH). Her research focuses on Computer Architecture, GPU, Compilers and Runtime Systems, and Hardware Security, particularly for heterogeneous systems.

• Contact: hyesoon@cc.gatech.edu
• Location: 266 Ferst Drive, KACB 2344, Atlanta, GA

Research Trends

Her recent work spans RISC-V extensions for security, CUDA optimization on softcore GPUs, memory safety techniques, and energy-efficient deep learning architectures. Articles emphasize heterogeneous computing, GPU performance scaling, and IoT-oriented neural network methods.

Open Source Projects

She leads development of Macsim (heterogeneous architecture simulator) and Vortex (open-source GPU platform).