Heechul Yun
Professor at The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolHeechul Yun is a professor of EECS at the University of Kansas with 14 years of academic and industry experience spanning operating systems, embedded Linux, and multicore systems. His career progressed from kernel and SoC work at Samsung and NVIDIA to research on performance isolation and deterministic multithreading during a PhD at UIUC, and now to faculty leadership and research at KU. He excels at low-level systems optimization—page table, scheduler, and NAND/FTL performance improvements—and has a track record of turning kernels and BSPs into production-ready platforms. Known for blending practical engineering with rigorous research, he brings an uncommon depth in both embedded firmware and multicore performance modeling. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, he combines a global education background (KAIST, UIUC) with hands-on industry roots to tackle real-world systems challenges.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (73)
bank10
memory-allocation10
msr10
memory-bandwidth10
reservation-system10
bandwidth10
fifo10
real-time-systems9
throttling9
kernel9
linux-kernel8
isolation8
raspberry8
alien7
datasets7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CSL-KU/IsolBench
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
A set of synthetic benchmarks used in IEEE RTAS 2016 paper by Prathap et al.,
Contributions:76 commits, 1 PR, 57 pushes in 7 years 1 month
heechul/misc
Dec 2012 - Jun 2016
Contributions:128 commits, 1 push in 3 years 6 months
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