Curriculum Vitae

[Downloadable CV]

Research interest

• Systems
  • Areas: Storage and File systems, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Database systems
  • Focus: Non-Volatil Memory (NVM), Persistent Memory (PM) aware system design
    • Key-value store and its core indexing structures
    • Improving the performance and reliability of NVM-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 NVM
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, Hongik University, 2015

Work experience

• Researcher, 03.2018~07.2018
  • UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Ulsan, South Korea
  • Duties included: Working for a project that proposes the compiler-directed solution on NVM-based systems.
  • Supervisor: Sam H. Noh
• Research Associate Intern, 06.2017~09.2017
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • Duties included: Working in key-value store (KVS) group with Kimberly Keeton, Haris Volos, and Yupu Zhang, I attended a DRAM cache project for NVM-aware KVS working on Fabric-attached memory.
  • Supervisor: Kimberly Keeton
• Researcher, 10.2015~02.2016
  • UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology), Ulsan, South Korea
  • Duties included: Working in NECSST lab under Prof. Sam H. Noh, I analyed NVM-based file system (PMFS) and evaluated the performance of it.
  • Supervisor: Sam H. Noh

Publications

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

Fall 2018 TA for Elements of Software Design (CS313E)

Spring 2016 TA for Objec-Oriented Programming

Spring 2015 TA for System Programming