EE Professor Minsoo Rhu, Appointed as First Asian Program Chair for MICRO
On the 5th, KAIST announced that Minsoo Rhu, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has been appointed as Program Co-Chair for the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) scheduled to be held next year. This marks the first time in MICRO’s 57-year history that a faculty member from an Asian university has been selected as Program Chair.
Celebrating its 57th edition this year, MICRO is the oldest and most prestigious international conference in the field of computer architecture. Alongside ISCA and HPCA, it is regarded as one of the top three international conferences in computer architecture. Scholars and industry professionals from around the world participate in MICRO, with fewer than 20% of submitted papers being selected for final presentation.
Professor Rhu was appointed Program Chair of the 58th MICRO conference, set to be held next year, in recognition of his contributions to the field of computer architecture. He will serve as Program Co-Chair alongside Professor Radu Teodorescu of Ohio State University, overseeing the selection of around 300 expert members of the Program Committee and supervising the review of over 500 submitted papers.
Professor Rhu is recognized as a next-generation leader in the fields of intelligent semiconductors and computer systems for artificial intelligence (AI). His expertise is reflected in his induction into the Hall of Fame of major conferences, including HPCA in 2021, MICRO in 2022, and ISCA this year.
Professor Rhu completed his undergraduate studies in electronic engineering at Sogang University, obtained his master’s degree in electrical engineering from KAIST, and earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. From 2014 to 2017, he worked at NVIDIA Research, and since 2018, he has been a professor at KAIST. He also served as a visiting researcher at Meta AI from 2022 to last year.
His research has been widely recognized by academia, receiving the Best Paper Award at HPCA this year, the Google Faculty Research Award last year, and the Facebook Faculty Research Award in 2020. Last year, he was also inducted as a member of Y-KAST, an elite group of young scientists under 43 recognized for their outstanding contributions to science by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
Professor Rhu commented, “While maintaining MICRO’s tradition of selecting only the highest-quality papers that lead academia and industry, I will also strive to create a program that comprehensively reflects emerging research in computer hardware and software.”
