Curriculum Vitae

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Research interest

• Computer Systems
  • Areas: Storage and File systems, Distributed Systems, Database systems, Operating Systems
  • Focus: Persistent Memory (PM) & Far memory (Disaggregated PM) aware systems design
    • Designing an elastic and high-performance datastore for far memory architectures
    • Designing index structures for PM-based storage systems
    • Improving the performance and reliability of PM-based file systems

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2018 ~ Present
  • Advisor: Vijay Chidambaram
• M.S. in Computer Science Engineering, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), 2018
  • Advisor: Sam H. Noh
  • Visiting student in Virginia Tech (2017.03 - 2017.05)
    • Co-research advised by Prof. Changhee Jung
    • Participating in the project of a new fault-tolerant programming model for PM
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, Hongik University, 2015

Work experience

• Research Intern, 05.2021~08.2021
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, US
  • Duties included: Elastically scaling out AMBROSIA
  • Mentor: Jonathan Goldstein
• Research Associate Intern, 06.2019~08.2019
  • Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, US
  • Duties included: Designing far-memory data structures optimized for one-sided operation
  • Mentors: Kimberly Keeton and Sharad Singhal
• Researcher, 03.2018~07.2018
  • UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Ulsan, South Korea
  • Duties included: Providing the compiler-directed crash consistency for PM-based systems
  • Supervisor: Sam H. Noh
• Research Associate Intern, 06.2017~09.2017
  • Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, US
  • Duties included: Designing DRAM cache for key-value stores working on Fabric-attached memory
  • Mentors: Kimberly Keeton, Haris Volos, and Yupu Zhang
• Researcher, 10.2015~02.2016
  • UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Ulsan, South Korea
  • Duties included: Analyzing PM-based file system (PMFS) and evaluating its performance
  • Supervisor: Sam H. Noh
• Republic of Korea Army, 08.2010~05.2012

Honors & Awards

• UT Austin Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship Supplement, 2021
• 2021 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, 2021~2023

Publications

SplitFS: Reducing Software Overhead in File Systems for Persistent Memory

Rohan Kadekodi, Se Kwon Lee, Sanidhya Kashyap, Taesoo Kim, Aasheesh Kolli, and Vijay Chidambaram, The 11th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2020, Extended abstract of SOSP 2019 paper).

RECIPE : Converting Concurrent DRAM Indexes to Persistent-Memory Indexes

Se Kwon Lee, Jayashree Mohan, Sanidhya Kashyap, Taesoo Kim, and Vijay Chidambaram, The 11th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2020, Extended abstract of SOSP 2019 paper).

SplitFS: Reducing Software Overhead in File Systems for Persistent Memory

Rohan Kadekodi, Se Kwon Lee, Sanidhya Kashyap, Taesoo Kim, Aasheesh Kolli and Vijay Chidambaram, Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2019).

RECIPE : Converting Concurrent DRAM Indexes to Persistent-Memory Indexes

Se Kwon Lee, Jayashree Mohan, Sanidhya Kashyap, Taesoo Kim, and Vijay Chidambaram, Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2019).

iDO: Compiler-Directed Failure Atomicity for Nonvolatile Memory

Qingrui Liu, Joseph Izraelevitz, Se Kwon Lee, Michael L. Scott, Sam H. Noh, and Changhee Jung, The 10th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2019, Extended abstract of MICRO 2018 paper).

iDO: Compiler-Directed Failure Atomicity for Nonvolatile Memory

Qingrui Liu, Joseph Izraelevitz, Se Kwon Lee, Michael L. Scott, Sam H. Noh, and Changhee Jung, Proceedings of the 51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2018).

Memory-Oriented Distributed Computing at Rack Scale

Haris Volos, Kimberly Keeton, Yupu Zhang, Milind Chabbi, Se Kwon Lee, Mark Lillibridge, Yuvraj Patel, and Wei Zhang, Poster at the 9th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC 2018).

Software challenges for persistent fabric-attached memory

Haris Volos, Kimberly Keeton, Yupu Zhang, Milind Chabbi, Se Kwon Lee, Mark Lillibridge, Yuvraj Patel, and Wei Zhang, Poster at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2018).

Ledger: Increasing Performance of POSIX Applications on Persistent Memory

Rohan Kadekodi, Se Kwon Lee, Aasheesh Kolli, and Vijay Chidambaram, Poster at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2018).

PMAL: Enabling Lightweight Adaptation of Legacy File Systems on Persistent Memory Systems

Hyunsub Song, Young Je Moon, Se Kwon Lee, and Sam H. Noh, Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2017).

WORT: Write Optimal Radix Tree for Persistent Memory Storage Systems

Se Kwon Lee, K. Hyun Lim, Hyunsub Song, Beomseok Nam, and Sam H. Noh, The 8th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2017, Extended abstract of FAST 2017 paper).

Transforming Legacy File Systems into Persistent Memory Exploiting File Systems with MeLo@V

Hyunsub Song, Young Je Moon, Se Kwon Lee, and Sam H. Noh, The 8th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2017).

WORT: Write Optimal Radix Tree for Persistent Memory Storage Systems

Se Kwon Lee, K. Hyun Lim, Hyunsub Song, Beomseok Nam, and Sam H. Noh, Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST 2017).

Adapting Legacy File Systems to Work Efficiently for Persistent Memory based Storage

Hyunsub Song, Young Je Moon, Se Kwon Lee, and Sam H. Noh, Poster at the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST 2016).

Experimental Evaluation of File System Data Structures for New Memory based Storage

Se Kwon Lee, Hyunsub Song, Young Je Moon, and Sam H. Noh, Proceedings of the 2016 Korea Computer Congress (KCC 2016, Domestic conference in South Korea, Written with Korean, Best Paper Award).

Skills

• Languages
  • C, C++, Python, x86 assembly, Bash script
• System programming
  • Linux kernel, Memcached, Tizen
• Benchmarks
  • Filebench, Fio, YCSB, ForestDB-benchmark, MC-benchmark, SPLASH3, Parsec, SPEC SFS2014

Teaching

Spring 2020 TA for Distributed Systems (CS 380D)

Fall 2018 TA for Elements of Software Design (CS 313E)

Spring 2016 TA for Objec-Oriented Programming

Spring 2015 TA for System Programming