The induction of Nam Sung Kim, Senior Vice President of the Memory Business at Samsung Electronics into the Hall of Fame of all three main worldwide laptop structure conferences has been drawing consideration.
Samsung Electronics reported on the 29th of July that, including to his inductions into the Hall of Fame of the HPCA (IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture) in 2015 and the MICRO (IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture) in 2016, Dr. Kim has lately been named to the Hall of Fame of the ISCA (ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture). The ISCA, HPCA and MICRO are the three most prestigious worldwide laptop structure conferences, and have their very own Hall of Fame which checklist researchers with eight or extra papers with technological excellence and affect.
Nam Sung Kim, Senior Vice President of the Memory Business, Device Solutions Division, Samsung Electronics
There are solely about 20 individuals who have been inducted into the halls of fame of all of the three conferences within the final 50 years of the pc structure historical past. This uncommon honor reveals the worldwide recognition of Dr. Kim’s authority in his analysis on laptop structure.
In 2016, Dr. Kim turned the primary Korean researcher to be chosen as an IEEE Fellow (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) within the discipline of laptop structure by the world’s largest skilled affiliation within the discipline. He was additionally the primary Korean researcher who received the Most Influential Paper Award at ACM SIGARCH / IEEE-CS TCCA ISCA, co-hosted by the Association for computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE in 2017. This award acknowledges the paper from the ISCA Proceedings 15 years earlier that has had essentially the most influence on the sphere (by way of analysis, growth, merchandise or concepts) through the intervening years. Dr. Kim’s paper “Drowsy Caches: Simple Techniques for Reducing Leakage Power” made a pioneering contribution to the event of extra energy-efficient microprocessors.
Dr. Kim was a tenured professor of laptop engineering on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) earlier than he joined Samsung Electronics in May, 2018. At Samsung, his focus has been making use of his analysis to the quickly altering semiconductor trade and creating improvements.
In mild of his famend experience in laptop structure, Dr. Kim and his crew are tasked to develop quicker and extra dependable reminiscence gadgets, primarily based on their complete understanding of next-generation computing methods. “It has gotten much more difficult to cost-effectively develop faster and more reliable memory devices these days because of many reasons. One of those reasons is that the complexity of computing systems and the interactions between their components, including the memory devices, have become significantly more complex and intense to run more sophisticated applications such as autonomous vehicles.”
In addition, Dr. Kim has been specializing in creating disruptive future reminiscence expertise that may considerably enhance computing efficiency of synthetic intelligence (AI) purposes in varied methods going ahead. His crew is now specializing in creating a reminiscence expertise that may not solely retailer info like standard reminiscence but additionally carry out computing like a microprocessor on the similar time. Utilization of the expertise will significantly cut back the necessity for quick info change between reminiscence and microprocessors, which has been a significant bottleneck in operations of many AI purposes.
“In 1997, Samsung Electronics gave me an eye-opening alternative, permitting me to go to main IT firms and high universities within the U.S. It led me to proceed my examine within the U.S. the place I received very fortunate to be concerned in cutting-edge analysis initiatives with world-class researchers. Such experiences allowed me to be the place I’m now and I…
