About Me
I’m a Ph.D. student at KAIST focusing on systems research in operating systems and distributed systems. Research interest: Operating System, Distributed System, Consensus Protocol, Key-Value Store, Remote Direct Memory Access, Vector Database, Retrieval Augmented Generation. I have research and industry internship experience at Microsoft, Samsung, and core research labs, with publications in database systems and storage systems for modern datacenter workloads.
Education
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Ph.D Student, School of Electrical Engineering
Mar. 2024 – Current
Daejeon, Korea
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
M.S., School of Electrical Engineering
Mar. 2022 – Feb. 2024
Thesis: State Machine Replication with Dependency Check Offloading Daejeon, Korea Cumulative GPA: 3.70/4.30
Yonsei University
B.S., School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Mar. 2020 – Feb. 2022
Seoul, Korea Cumulative GPA: 4.03/4.30
Konkuk University
Certified, Department of Electronics Engineering
Mar. 2016 – Feb. 2020
Seoul, Korea Cumulative GPA: 4.26/4.50
Experience
Research Intern
Microsoft Canada
Mar. 2025 – Jun. 2025
Vancouver, Canada
Research Intern
Microsoft Research Asia
Sep. 2024 – Mar. 2025
Beijing, China
Undergraduate Research Intern
Corelab, Yonsei University
Jan. 2021 – Jun. 2021
Seoul, Korea
Operation Software Developer
Operation Information & Communication Group, ROKAF
Jul. 2017 – Jun. 2019
Osan Air Base, Korea
Mandatory military service
Projects
Development of Index Structure Optimized for Vector DB in CXL-based Storage System
Microsoft
Jun. 2024 – Jun. 2025
Research project on index structures for vector databases in CXL-based disaggregated storage systems.
Disaggregated Memory Management for Hyperscale Datacenters
Samsung Electronics
Mar. 2022 – Mar. 2023
Project on memory management architecture and techniques for hyperscale datacenter environments.
Publications
Aker: Density-Aware Approximate Caching for Vector Search
VLDB Endowment, 19(10), 2026
2026
Sukjoon Oh, Minki Kang, Dohyun Kim, Baotong Lu, Jing Liu, Qianzi Zhang, Qi Chen and Youjip Won
Teaching
TA, Introduction to Programming and Computer Systems
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Sep. 2026 – Dec. 2026
TA, Introduction to Programming and Computer Systems
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Mar. 2026 – Jun. 2026
TA, Operating Systems and System Programming
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Sep. 2025 – Dec. 2025
TA, Programming Structures for Electrical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Mar. 2024 – Jun. 2024
TA, Introduction to Environments and Tools for Modern SW Dev.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Mar. 2024 – Jun. 2024
TA, Operating Systems and System Programming
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Sep. 2023 – Dec. 2023
TA, Unix Kernel Design
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Sep. 2022 – Dec. 2022
Technical Skills
- Languages: C/C++, Python, Java
- Development Tools: gcc/g++, gdb, git, gnuplot, vim
- System knowledge: Operating System, Distributed System, Consensus Algorithm, Remote Direct Memory Access, Vector Database, Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search