Jungrae Kim is an associate professor and computer architect with a rare blend of industry-grade silicon design and academic research leadership, currently heading research at Sungkyunkwan University since 2020. He brings over two decades of hands-on experience designing DRAM controllers, DDR PHYs, and on-chip interconnects for Samsung and Apple application processors, and later led SmartNIC FPGA acceleration at Microsoft that now underpins Azure networking. His research—spanning cache compression to memory systems—has been published and awarded at top conferences (ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ASPLOS, DAC) and adopted in commercial IBM server CPUs. A UT Austin Ph.D. alumnus, he uniquely couples production-proven system engineering with high-impact academic contributions, mentoring the next generation while continuing industry-collaborative projects. Based in Gyeonggi, South Korea, he also has a longstanding interest in control and dynamics, reflecting a systems-thinking approach that informs both hardware and software design.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Seoul National University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
High School, High School at Seoul Science High School for gifted students
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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