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 Reinforcement Learning and Parallel Programming.
Research Focus
Safe and Efficient Machine Learning.
Specific short term interests are as follows:
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Algorithms
(1) Diffusion Models / Flow Matching
(2) Reinforcement Learning -
Systems
(1) GPU Kernels
(2) Distributed Systems
(3) Functional Languages and Compilers
Honors and Awards
- DAC Young Fellowship, 62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC) (Jun. 2025)
- UT Excellence Engineering Fellowship, UT Austin (Sep. 2024)
- Golden Tiger Award (2nd/150), USAG Humphreys (Dec. 2019)