Sangwon Seo , Ph.D Candidate
Computer Architecture Laboratory
(Prof.Seungryoul Maeng)
Computer Science Department
School of EECS
KAIST
Daejeon 305701, Republic of Korea

Blog: http://smiler-note.blogspot.com
Active Community: Hadoop Korean User Group
e-mail: swseo_at_calab.kaist.ac.kr
Phone: +82-10-3380-3380

In Berlin University of Technology: Room EN 147 (Mar. 2009 ~ Feb. 2010)
(Communication and Operating System Lab, Prof.Dr.Heiss)

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), 2010 - present
M.S. in Computer Science, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), 2008 - 2010
(Dual Degree, M.S. Computer Science, TU Berlin (Berlin University of Technology), supported by KAIST-BK21-Government Funding)
B.S. in Computer Engineering, KHU (KyungHee University, 2008)

Research Interests

Cluster Computing (HPC, Allocation, Partitioning,..)
Distributed Platform (GFS, Hadoop, Dryad, Ceph, OpenMP, MPI, Mapreduce, GPGPU-CUDA,...) and Parallel Algorithms - open for visitors (Distributed transactions, Byzantine, Self-stabilization, ...)
Software support for storage systems especially for NAND flash and SSDs (FTLs, I/O Software Stack)
[Minor area] Machine Intelligence (Machine Learning: Estimation, (K)PCA, ICA, Clustering, Classification, Regression,.. ) - open for visitors

KT Cloudware, Vice President, 2012~current
Ahems, CEO, 2009-2011
Yahoo!Korea Intern 8th (Search Engineering, Search R&D), 2008
Samsung Software Membership (SSM, Student Research Fellowship, Funded by Samsung), 15th, 2005 - 2010
Industry experience in IT company for alternative military service, 2002 - 2005
View all of industry experiences up to 2008
Teaching experiences

Data Structures (CS206), spring 2010, TA, KAIST

Digital Systems & Lab (CS211), spring 2011, TA, KAIST

Microsoft Research Asia Fellow -Winner, 2011
National Full Scholarship, KAIST, South Korea (2008 ~ 2011)
BK21 Scholarship for dual-degree, KAIST, South Korea (2009)
A superiority prize for graduate thesis(B.S), KyungHee University, South Korea (2008)
Academic Record Scholarship, KyungHee University, South Korea (2001, 2005, 2006, 2007)
JCGE 2006 U-Soc Robot Tank Contest, 1st prize, KAIST, South Korea (2006)
IT Festival, 2nd prize (Wearable Control Service System), Hankuk University Of Foreign Studies (HUFS), South Korea (2006)

YOON Seung Hyun, MAENG Seung Ryoul, HUH Jae Hyuk, SEO Sang Won, KIM Jae Hong and PARK Jong Se, "Method and apparatus for crawling web page." Patent Filed No. 10-2010-0104246 (October 25, 2010), Korea

Sangwon Seo, Edward J. Yoon, Jaehong Kim, Seongwook Jin, Jin-Soo Kim, and Seungryoul Maeng, "HAMA: An Efficient Matrix Computation with the MapReduce Framework", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2010), Indianapolis, IN, USA, November 2010.

Co-worked with NHN Corp.

Sangwon Seo, Ingook Jang, Kyungchang Woo, Inkyo Kim, Jin-Soo Kim, Seungryoul Maeng "HPMR: Prefetching and Pre-shuffling in Shared MapReduce Computation Environment", Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (IEEE CLUSTER 2009), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, September 2009
(Co-worked with Yahoo! Korea and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT))

Jaehong Kim, Sangwon Seo, Dawoon Jung, Jin-Soo Kim, and Jaehyuk Huh "Parameter-Aware I/O Management for Solid State Disks (SSDs)", IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Mar. 2011 [published].

Jaehong Kim, Sangwon Seo, Jongse Park, Jaehyuk Huh, Seungryoul Maeng, and Moon-Sang Lee, "GeoWeb : The Impacts of Geo-tagged Web Page", Technical Report of Computer Science Division, CS-TR-2010-334, 2010
Sangwon Seo, Edward. J. Yoon, Jaehong Kim, Seongwook Jin, Jin-Soo Kim, Seungryoul Maeng, "HAMA: An Efficient Matrix Computation with the MapReduce Framework", Technical Report of Computer Science Division, KAIST, CS-TR-2010-330, 2010
Jaehong Kim, Sangwon Seo, Dawoon Jung, Jaehong Kim, Jin-Soo Kim, Jaehyuk Huh, "Parameter-Aware I/O Management For Solid State Disks (SSDs)", Technical Report of Computer Science Division, KAIST, CS-TR-2010-329, 2010

Jongse Park, Jaehong Kim, Sangwon Seo, Jaehyuk Huh, Seungryoul Maeng, and Moon-Sang Lee, "GeoWeb : The Impacts of Geo-tagged Web Page", Proceedings of KIISE 2010, Korea, Nov, 2010, Distinguished Paper (Preliminary version of IEEE ICC paper)

Event-Driven Architecture on Cloud Computing, (column, Focus-On [1], 8p), Micro Software, South Korea, Jan. 2010
Maso Plus (Hadoop, HDFS, HOD), (13+ serial publication), Micro Software, South Korea, Sep. 2007 - current
Real-Time Support in Linux, (special column, cover story [1], 6p), Micro Software, South Korea, May. 2008
Linux System Programming, (4 serial publication [1][2][3][4] , 32p),Micro Software, South Korea, Mar. 2008 - Jun. 2008
Network Security, (4 serial publication [1][2][3][4], 32p), Micro Software, Oct. 2007 - Feb. 2008
Java Development Framework Integration, (2 serial publication [1][2], 16p), Micro Software, South Korea, Sep. - Oct. 2007

(Editorial Supervision), "The Definitive Guide to The Xen Hypervisor" Translation. USA: Prentice Hall, Seoul: Jpub, Apr. 2012, 340
(Editorial Supervision), "Linux System Programming" Translation. USA: Oreilly, Seoul: Hanbit, July 2009, 460
Junsoo Lim, Sangwon Seo, "The Myth of Innovation" , Scott Berkun, Translation, USA: Oreilly, Seoul: Hanbit, Jan 2008, 308

IEEE CLOUDCOM 2010, Technical paper presentation, "http://wiki.apache.org/hama/Articles",Indianapolis, IN, USA, November 2010. (Eng)
IEEE CLUSTER 2009, Technical paper presentation, "HPMR: Prefetching and Pre-shuffling in Shared MapReduce Computation Environment", New Orleans, USA, Sep. 2009. (Eng)
Regional(Asia) Search Talk In Yahoo!Korea, "Query Retrieval using Term Vector Similarity (QP system)", Mar. 2009. (Eng)
Samsung Electronics, "System Programming Principles", Jun. 2008. (Kor)