Youngjin Kwon

Youngjin Kwon is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing, KAIST, and a member of the Computer Architecture and Systems Lab (CASYS). His work bridges systems research with practical applications in memory management, concurrency debugging, and energy-efficient computing.

• Recipient of Best Paper Awards at ACM SOSP'24, SOSP'21, and USENIX ATC'18
• Honored with KAIST's EWON Endowed Chair Professor (2021) and Soo-Young Lee Teaching Innovation Award (2021)
• Awarded KAIST Breakthrough (2023) and Technology Innovation Award (2023)

Research focuses on:

• Processing-in-Memory (PIM) and DRAM architectures
• Concurrency bugs in kernel and hypervisor systems
• Energy-efficient frameworks for large language models
• Memory disaggregation and tiered memory systems
• Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) for secure computing
• SmartNIC offloading and eBPF-based optimizations

His recent publications highlight innovations in speculative decoding, memory safety, and system scalability. Awards reflect both technical excellence and pedagogical impact.

He actively mentors graduate and undergraduate students in his lab, emphasizing hands-on research in cutting-edge system design.