CV
Curriculum vitae.
Contact Information
| Name | Omin Kwon |
| om0127@snu.ac.kr | |
| Location | Seoul, South Korea |
| Website | https://omin-kwon.github.io |
| ominkwon |
Research Interest
- Computer Architectures & Machine Learning Systems, with an emphasis on co-designing ML algorithms and computer systems for efficient ML.
Education
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Sept 2025 - present Seoul, South Korea
M.S.
Seoul National University
Computer Science and Engineering
- Advisor: Prof. Jae W. Lee, ARC Lab
- GPA: 4.3/4.3
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Mar 2019 - Aug 2025 Seoul, South Korea
B.S.
Seoul National University
Electrical and Computer Engineering (summa cum laude)
- GPA: 4.26/4.3 (upper-division), 3.95/4.3 (overall)
- Leave of absence for mandatory military service (May 2021-Feb 2023)
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Mar 2017 - Mar 2019 Seoul, South Korea
H.S.
Hansung Science High School
Science
Publications
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2026 SketchSSM: Write to the Full State, Read from a Compact Sketch
Omin Kwon, JoongWon Shin, Minseo Kim, Kurt Keutzer, Sehoon Kim*, Jae W. Lee*
Under review
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2026 HERALD: High Throughput Block Diffusion LLM Serving via CPU-GPU Cooperative KV Cache Retrieval
Omin Kwon, Doyeon Kim, Jongseok Park, Seung Yul Lee, Ion Stoica, Jae W. Lee
Under review
Paper Link: arxiv.org/abs/2606.21633
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2026 MAGE: All-[MASK] Block Already Knows Where to Look in Diffusion LLM
Omin Kwon, Yeonjae Kim, Doyeon Kim, Minseo Kim, Yeonhong Park, Jae W. Lee
NeurIPS 2026; ICML 2026 AdaptFM Workshop (Best Paper Award)
Paper Link: arxiv.org/abs/2602.14209
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2025 STAR: Improving Lifetime and Performance of High-Capacity Modern SSDs Using State-Aware Randomizer
Omin Kwon*, Kyungjun Oh*, Jaeyong Lee, Myungsuk Kim, Jihong Kim
ICCAD 2025
Paper Link: doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD66269.2025.11240772
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2025 NestedFP: High-Performance, Memory-Efficient Dual-Precision Floating Point Support for LLMs
Haeun Lee, Omin Kwon, Yeonhong Park, Jae W. Lee
NeurIPS 2025
Paper Link: neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/poster/117613
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2025 AiDE: Attention-FFN Disaggregated Execution for Cost-Effective LLM Decoding on CXL-PNM
KyungSoo Kim, Omin Kwon, Yeonhong Park, Jae W. Lee
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)
Paper Link: doi.org/10.1109/LCA.2025.3597323
Experiences
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Sept 2026 - present Seoul, South Korea
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Computer Architecture (4190.571)
Seoul National University
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Mar 2026 - May 2026 Urbana, IL, USA
Visiting Researcher
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- FAST Lab, hosted by Prof. Nam Sung Kim
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Mar 2025 - June 2025 Seoul, South Korea
Microelectronics (430.207B) Tutor
Seoul National University
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Sept 2024 - Dec 2024 Seoul, South Korea
Digital System Design (430.315) Tutor
Seoul National University
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Mar 2024 - June 2024 Seoul, South Korea
Computer Organization and Design (430.322) Tutor
Seoul National University
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May 2021 - Feb 2023 South Korea
Military Service
Republic of Korea Air Force
Presentations
Honors & Awards
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July 2026 Best Paper Award @ ICML26 AdaptFM Workshop
ICML 2026 AdaptFM Workshop
1 Best Paper among 123 accepted papers from 218 submissions.
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Jan 2025 Grand Prize (Minister of Science and ICT Award), 2024 AI Semiconductor Idea and Design Contest
Ministry of Science and ICT
Designed a resolution-aware diffusion accelerator leveraging computational staleness. News: Edaily.
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Dec 2024 Grand Prize (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Award), 2024 STOB League Semiconductor Contest
Ministry of Education
Designed a state-aware data randomizer for high-performance SSDs, improving performance and device lifetime. News: Dong-A Ilbo.
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July 2024 Grand Prize, 2024 FriendliAI LLM Hackathon
FriendliAI
Developed a knowledge-graph RAG application using the FriendliAI API.
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Aug 2024 - Aug 2025 SNU Specialized Semiconductor College Scholarship
Seoul National University
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2023, 2024 Merit-Based Scholarship
Seoul National University