Faculty spotlight: Sangyeun Cho, Assistant Professor

Sangyeun Cho joined the Department of Computer Science in the fall of 2004. He received his BS in computer engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1994, and his PhD in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 2002.

In 1999, he joined the System LSI division of Samsung Electronics, Co., in Giheung, Korea and contributed to the development of Samsung's embedded processor core family named CalmRISC(TM). He was a lead architect of CalmRISC(TM)-32, a 32-bit microprocessor core, and designed its memory hierarchy including caches, DMA, and stream buffers. He received a corporate R&D excellence award for this work. His most recent works at Samsung include design and implementation of a low-power SDRAM controller, an ARM-based embedded processor module, and a high-bandwidth bus design for the world's first 18x DVD recording SOC.

His research interests are primarily in the area of computer architecture and embedded systems, with particular emphasis on low power consumption, memory hierarchy design, and reliable computer systems.

In the 2005 spring term, Cho taught a graduate seminar (CS3410), which focused on new issues and recent advances in the computer architecture area. He enjoys working actively with students in tackling new and interesting problems.