Gina Sohn

ginasohn@stanford.edu

I am an Electrical Engineering PhD student at Stanford University advised by Professor Kunle Olukotun. My area of interest lies in computer architecture, compilers, and programming models. Recently, I am working on a Domain-specific Architectures and Compilers for dataflow accelerators.

I received my B.S. from Seoul National University, where I was fortunate enough to be advised by Professor Jae W. Lee and Jung Ho Ahn on designing hardware accelerators for domains such as Large Language Model training and Fully Homomorphic Encryption.

Education

Stanford University

Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering
Sep. 2022 – Present

Seoul National University

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science and Engineering

Total GPA: 4.16 / 4.3 (Summa Cum Laude)

Mar. 2018 – Aug. 2022

Publications

  • ARK: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Accelerator with Runtime Data Generation and Inter-Operation Key Reuse

    Jongmin Kim, Gwangho Lee, Sangpyo Kim, Gina Sohn, John Kim, Minsoo Rhu, Jung Ho Ahn

    MICRO, 2022
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  • Behemoth: A Flash-centric Training Accelerator for Extreme-scale DNNs

    Shine Kim, Yunho Jin, Gina Sohn, Jonghyun Bae, Tae Jun Ham, Jae W. Lee.

    FAST, 2021
    PDF
    Slides

Research Experience

Architecture and Code Optimization Lab

Samsung-SNU Cooperation R&D Center, Seoul National University

Research Intern

  • Advisor: Professor Jae W. Lee

  • Project Goal: To overcome the memory capacity problem in extreme-scale Deep Neural Network training by using a custom hardware accelerator and an efficient Flash-based memory system

  • My Role: workload analysis through simulator (MAESTRO), memory access pattern analysis, simulator integration, porting DNN models (Bert, Resnet, GPT-3, T5)

Jul. 2020 — Sep. 2020
Seoul, Republic of Korea

SCALable Computer Architecture Lab

Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University

Research Intern

  • Advisor: Professor Jung Ho Ahn

  • Research Topic: Designing a Homomorphic Encryption Accelerator

Jan. 2022 — Apr. 2022
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Honors & Scholarships

Stanford Graduate Fellowship (Burt and Deedee McMurtry Fellow)

Stanford University
2022-2025

National Scholarship For Science and Engineering

Korea Student Aid Foundation
2020-2021

Silver Prize at the Academic Festival of College of Liberal Studies

Seoul National University
2021

Eminence Scholarship

Seoul National University
2019

Project Experience

Improving U-Net and U-Net Variants for CT Scan Organ Segmentation

Seoul National University

  • Project Goal: Developing an organ segmentation Deep Neural Network model for CT scans

  • Silver Prize at the Academic Festival of Seoul National University’s College of Liberal Studies

    Code
Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2021
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Location-based Restaurant Review Platform with Game Features

Seoul National University

  • Project Goal: Developing an energy-efficient android application that provides restaurant review service based on the user’s game level and location information

    Code
Sep. 2020 - Dec. 2020
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Teaching Experience

Computer Programming (M1522.000600)

Seoul National University

Teaching Assistant

  • Covered C++ and Java programming, Object Oriented Programming

  • Revised lab materials and assignment descriptions, Administered laboratories for 170 students every week, Answered questions online

Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2021

Extracurricular & Leadership Activities

Seoul National University College of Engineering Honor Society

(SNU Tomorrow’s Edge Membership)

Academic Activity Director
Mar. 2021 – Jun. 2022

Korean-American Women in Science and Engineering (KWiSE)

2021 Mentee Team Leader (Chapter: Los Angeles, USA)
Mar. 2021 – Present

Seoul National University Security Research Group (Guardian)

club member
Mar. 2019 - Jul. 2019