Gina Sohn

ginasohn@stanford.edu

I am a Electrical Engineering PhD student in Stanford University. My area of interest is computer architecture, with a special focus on Domain-specific Architectures and HW/SW Co-design. Recently, I have been working on accelerators for training Large Language Models.


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


  • 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

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

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