Postdoctoral Researcher, High Performance Computer System Lab
Senior Researcher, Automation and Systems Research Institute
Mar. 2022 - Dec. 2022
Samsung Semiconductor Inc., San Jose, CA
Visiting Researcher, Memory Solutions Lab
Feb. 2020 - Aug. 2020
Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR
Research Intern, Accelerator Architecture Lab
Mentor: Dr. Eriko Nurvitadhi
Jul. 2018 - Dec. 2018
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Research Assistant, High Performance Computer System Lab
Advisor: Prof. Jangwoo Kim
Mar. 2017 - Feb. 2022
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
Research Assistant, High Performance Computng Lab
Advisor: Prof. Jangwoo Kim
Mar. 2015 - Feb. 2017
Education
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thesis: Hardware-assisted Virtualization Mechanisms for Modern Storage Devices
Mar. 2017 - Feb. 2022
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Thesis: A Fast Device-Centric Server Architecture
Mar. 2015 - Feb. 2017
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (double major)
Mar. 2010 - Feb. 2015
Invited Talks
How A DPU Is Transforming AI Datacenters, ACM SIGARCH Korea Chapter Workshop, Seoul, South Korea, 2024
MangoBoost: Boost Your Datacenter with Composable DPU Solutions, Neuromorphic AI Semiconductor Workshop, The Institute of Semiconductor Engineers, Seoul, South Korea, 2023
MangoBoost: Boost Your Datacenter with Composable DPU Solutions, ERICA AI Symposium, Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea, 2023
A Next-Generation DPU-Accelerated Petabyte-Scale Storage Solution to Build Future Data-Centric Datacenters, OCP Global Summit, San Jose, CA, 2023
MangoBoost: Boost Your Datacenter with Composable DPU Solutions, OCP APAC Tech Day, Seoul, South Korea, 2023
A Fast and Flexible Hardware-based Virtualization Mechanism for Computational Storage Devices, ATC, 2021 (virtual)
FVM: FPGA-assisted Virtual Device Emulation for Fast, Scalable, and Flexible Storage Virtualization, Korea Computer Congress, 2021 (virtual)
FVM: FPGA-assisted Virtual Device Emulation for Fast, Scalable, and Flexible Storage Virtualization, OSDI, 2020 (virtual)
A Fast and Flexible FPGA-based Accelerator for Natural Language Processing Neural Networks
Suyeon Hur, Seongmin Na, Dongup Kwon, Joonsung Kim, Jangwoo Kim, Andrew Boutros, and Eriko Nurvitadhi
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Oct. 2022
SmartFVM: A Fast, Flexible, and Scalable Hardware-based Virtualization for Commodity Storage Devices Dongup Kwon, Wonsik Lee, Dongryeong Kim, Junehyuk Boo, and Jangwoo Kim
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Apr. 2022
A Fast and Flexible Hardware-based Virtualization Mechanism for Computational Storage Devices Dongup Kwon, Dongryeong Kim, Junehyuk Boo, Wonsik Lee, and Jangwoo Kim
USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Jul. 2021
DiFuzzRTL: Differential Fuzz Testing to Find CPU Bugs
Jaewon Hur, Suhwan Song, Dongup Kwon, Eunjin Baek, Jangwoo Kim, and Byoungyoung Lee
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), May 2021
FVM: FPGA-assisted Virtual Device Emulation for Fast, Scalable, and Flexible Storage Virtualization Dongup Kwon, Junehyuk Boo, Dongryeong Kim, and Jangwoo Kim
USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Nov. 2020
Scalable Multi-FPGA Acceleration for Large RNNs with Full Parallelism Levels Dongup Kwon, Suyeon Hur, Hamin Jang, Eriko Nurvitadhi, and Jangwoo Kim
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Jul. 2020
A Multi-Neural Network Acceleration Architecture
Eunjin Baek, Dongup Kwon, and Jangwoo Kim
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Jun. 2020
Scalable Low-Latency Neural Machine Translation on CPU Server with Multiple FPGAs
Eriko Nurvitadhi, Andrew Boutros, Prerna Budhkar, Ali Jafari, Dongup Kwon, David Sheffield, Abirami Prabhakaran, Karthik Gururaj, Pranavi Appana, and Mishali Naik
IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), Dec. 2019
Why Compete When You Can Work Together: FPGA-ASIC Integration for Persistent RNNs
Eriko Nurvitadhi, Dongup Kwon, Ali Jafari, Andrew Boutros, Jaewoong Sim, Phillip Tomson, Huseyin Sumbul, Gregory Chen, Phil Knag, Raghavan Kumar, Ram Krishnamurthy, Sergey Gribok, Bogdan Pasca, Martin Langhammer, Debbie Marr, and Aravind Dasu
IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), Apr. 2019
Evaluating and Enhancing Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs for Persistent Real-Time AI
Eriko Nurvitadhi, Dongup Kwon, Ali Jafari, Andrew Boutros, Jaewoong Sim, Phillip Tomson, Huseyin Sumbul, Gregory Chen, Phil Knag, Raghavan Kumar, Ram Krishnamurthy, Debbie Marr, Sergey Gribok, Bogdan Pasca, Martin Langhammer, and Aravind Dasu
ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), Feb. 2019
CIDR: A Cost-Effective In-Line Data Reduction System for Terabit-per-Second Scale SSD Arrays
Mohammadamin Ajdari, Pyeongsu Park, Joonsung Kim, Dongup Kwon, and Jangwoo Kim
IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb. 2019 Best Paper Runner-Up IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention
DCS-ctrl: A Fast and Flexible Device-Control Mechanism for Device-Centric Server Architecture Dongup Kwon, Jaehyung Ahn, Dongju Chae, Mohammadamin Ajdari, Jaewon Lee, Suheon Bae, Youngsok Kim, and Jangwoo Kim
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Jun. 2018
Flexon: A Flexible Digital Neuron for Efficient Spiking Neural Network Simulations
Dayeol Lee, Gwangmu Lee, Dongup Kwon, Sunghwa Lee, Youngsok Kim, and Jangwoo Kim
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Jun. 2018
A Scalable HW-Based Inline Deduplication for SSD Arrays
Mohammadamin Ajdari, Pyeongsu Park, Dongup Kwon, Joonsung Kim, and Jangwoo Kim
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 17(1):47-50, Jan.-Jun. 2018
DCS: A Fast and Scalable Device-Centric Server Architecture
Jaehyung Ahn*, Dongup Kwon*, Youngsok Kim, Mohammadamin Ajdari, Jaewon Lee, and Jangwoo Kim
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Dec. 2015 *: Equal contribution
Patent
Peripheral device controlling device, operation method thereof, and operation method of peripheral device controlling device driver
US Patent 10,664,418, 2020
Storage virtualization device supporting virtual machine, operation method thereof, and operation method of system having the same
Pending - US 20220137998
Virtualization device including storage device and computational device, and method of operating the same
Pending - US 20230016692
Honors and Awards
Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University