Eun Kyung Lee is a research-driven engineering manager at IBM Research with over a decade of experience advancing sustainable computing, HPC, AI-driven data center control, and SmartNIC networking. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers and leads a team building future infrastructure and control while co-leading departmental sustainability research. Eun combines hands-on systems expertise—evident from contributions to the widely used Spack package manager improving IBM compiler and powerpc64le support—with a strong publication record and multiple best-paper/poster/demo awards. His background spans prototyping sensor-driven thermal management, mobile device clouds, and real-world deployments from academia to industry, and he brings a pragmatic blend of research rigor and production-facing engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 23 PRs, 43 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eun primarily contributed to the `spack/spack` package manager, focusing on enhancing compiler support for IBM XL and PGI compilers. Their work involved modifying build scripts and configurations to ensure compatibility with these compilers, specifically for packages like Boost, hypre, SuiteSparse, MUMPS, and MAGMA. The contributions demonstrate expertise in adapting the build process for different compiler toolchains and integrating with external libraries. They also added support for powerpc64le architecture for the hypre package.
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