About
My name is Sung-Young (성영) Lee (이). "Sung" (晟) means bright, and "Young" (榮) means glory. "Lee" (李) is my family name.
Past
Military Service at the United States Army Garrison (USAG) Humphreys.
Sergeant, 18 months service, 557th Military Police Company.
B.S. in EECS (Summa Cum Laude) from Seoul National University (Advisor: Prof. Deog-Kyoon Jeong).
Samsung 28nm, TSMC 40nm Tape-out Experience on Wireline Interface Circuits.
Ph.D. student at UT Austin (Advisor: Prof. David Z. Pan).
Research on transistor-level Electronics Design Automation (EDA).
Current
Ph.D. student at UT Austin (Advisor: Prof. Keshav K. Pingali).
Research on ML Systems and High Performance Computing.
Research Focus
Efficient & Expressive ML
Specific short term interests are as follows:
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Algorithm level
(1) Few-step generative models (e.g., one-step generation or distillation)
(2) Sample-efficient reinforcement learning (e.g., off-policy and offline) -
System level
(1) CUDA kernel optimization
(2) Inter-GPU communication (e.g., distributed inference serving)
Honors and Awards
- DAC Young Fellowship, 62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC) (Jun. 2025)
- UT Excellence Engineering Fellowship, UT Austin (Sep. 2024)
- Golden Tiger Award, USAG Humphreys (Dec. 2019)