<Prof. John Kim>
Prof. John Kim has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, class of 2025, “for contributions to the design and analysis of high-performance interconnection network architectures.” Prof. Kim’s research area is in computer architecture and interconnection networks. As systems scale-up and scale-out with more components, data movement is becoming a bigger bottleneck in modern digital systems. Prof. Kim’s research addresses the communication bottleneck in multi-core and large-scale systems and his research lab is also currently exploring communication bottlenecks in deep-learning systems.
Prof. Kim’s research has led him to become the first researcher from Asia to be inducted into the hall-of-fame for all three main computer architecture conferences — ISCA, MICRO, and HPCA. He was also the first researcher from an Asia institution to serve as the program chair for a top-tier computer architecture conference (HPCA’24). Prof. Kim plans on pursuing research on efficient data movement across memory-centric architectures and exploiting domain-specific networks.
