Regular biography
Youngjin Kwon is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST, affiliated with the Computer Architecture and Systems Lab (CASYS). His research focuses on computer architecture and systems, with notable contributions in areas such as memory management, operating systems, and energy-efficient computing. He has received several awards, including best paper awards at ACM SOSP'24, SOSP'21, and USENIX ATC'18, as well as the KAIST EWON Endowed Chair Professor title (2021), Soo-Young Lee Teaching Innovation Award (2021), and multiple KAIST breakthrough and Technology Innovation Awards. He also holds the Google Research Scholar Award (2025).
Scholar-generated biography
Youngjin Kwon is a researcher in computer systems, focusing on innovative storage and memory management solutions for modern computing environments. His work explores advanced file systems, memory sharing, and performance isolation techniques to enhance system efficiency and reliability. Key areas include distributed file systems, GPU memory management, and hardware transactional memory. Kwon's research addresses challenges in heterogeneous computing, such as multi-GPU systems and memory disaggregation, with an emphasis on scalability and fault tolerance. His contributions span from optimizing storage virtualization to improving the performance of machine learning workloads through efficient resource sharing and isolation mechanisms.