CV

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, Indiana University, 2019
• M.S. in Computer Science, Indiana University, 2010
• B.S. in Computer Science Education, Sungkyunkwan University, 2007

Work experience

• 2018 - present: Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  • Performance characterization for ML based applications by profiling and resource analysis as well as improving resource efficiency of large-scale workflow on HPC systems.
  • Supervisor: Professor Shantenu Jha
• 2014 - 2018: Teaching Assistant
  • Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  • Big Data Open Source Software and Projects (Fall 2015), Cloud Computing (2017), Big Data Applications & Analytics (2017)
  • Main instructors: Drs. Judy Qiu, Gregor von Laszewski, Geoffrey Fox
• 2013 Summer: Research Intern
  • Microsoft Research Connections
  • Developed Python library for Microsoft Azure Cloud, SimpleAzure, and integrated with python scientific packages such as Jupyter, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, scikit learn
  • Mentor: Dennis Gannon
• 2010 Summer: Research Intern
  • Samsung Electronics
  • Conducted research into cloud computing environments supporting bioinformatics applications.
  • Mentor: Kyusang Lee
• 2004 - 2008: Software Engineer
  • SK Communications
  • Worked on building scalable email services with efficient storage systems.

Skills

• Language: C/C++, Python, Bash Shell Scripting
• Toolkits: hdf5, mdanalysis, OpenWhisk, Kubernetes, OpenStack (Heat, Ceilometer), Ansible, Chef, Docker, CoreOS rkt, LXD, Singularity
• APIs: Amazon botocore, Azure Python SDK, Google Functions, IBM BlueMix
• Framework: Horovod, pytorch, tensorflow

Awards and Honors

• ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID-19 Research
  • Being part of group work with 27 other researchers, enabling AI workflow for molecular systems on HPC resources
  • Press
• US Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Award
  • Being part of the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory w.r.t. COVID19 therapeutics

Service and leadership

• Reviewer: Briefings in Bioinformatics, Online ISSN 1477-4054, 2018 - 2019
• Reviewer: Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, Online ISSN 1532-0634, 2015 - 2018
• Presentation at RIKEN AICS Youth group workshop, Kobe, Japan 2018.
• Participant at SC 17 Student Volunteer Program, Denver November 11 - 17 2017.
• IPDPS 2017 Student Travel Award, June 2017
• Presentation at ADMI Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions, Virginia Beach, FL March 2017.
• Undergraduate Mentor Summer REU Research Program, June 2014.
• Participant at SciPy Conference, Austin, TX June 2013.
• Presentation at Targets and Tools for Therapeutic Development, Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Boston, MA March 2013.