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Seungmin Baek

Email: qortmdals0@gmail.com

Hi! I am a Ph.D. candidate at Seoul National University since 2023. I am currently advised by Prof. Jung Ho Ahn and a member of SCALE Lab ↗. Before pursuing Ph.D., I received a B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Korea University in 2023.

My research primarily focuses on high performance memory system for LLMs and DRAM reliability & security. For further information, please refer to my CV.

Publication

ISCA '26 "PVAC: RowHammer Mitigation Architecture Exploiting Per-victim-row Counting"
Jumin Kim*, Seungmin Baek*, Hwayong Nam, Minbok Wi, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn. (*Co-first)
IEEE S&P '26 "SoK: Systematizing a Decade of Architectural RowHammer Defenses Through the Lens of Streaming Algorithms"
Michael Jaemin Kim, Seungmin Baek, Jumin Kim, Hwayong Nam, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn.
IEEE Access '26 "Sudoku: Refining DRAM Address Mapping through Advanced Timing and Configuration Analysis"
Minbok Wi*, Wanju Doh*, Seungmin Baek, Seonyong Park, Mattan Erez, Jung Ho Ahn. (*Co-first)
HPCA '26 "RoMe: Row Granularity Access Memory System for Large Language Models"
Hwayong Nam*, Seungmin Baek*, Jumin Kim, Michael Jaemin Kim, Jung Ho Ahn. (*Co-first)
arXiv '25 "The New LLM Bottleneck: A Systems Perspective on Latent Attention and Mixture-of-Experts"
Sungmin Yun, Seonyong Park, Hwayong Nam, Younjoo Lee, Gunjun Lee, Kwanhee Kyung, Sangpyo Kim, Nam Sung Kim, Jongmin Kim, Hyungyo Kim, Juhwan Cho, Seungmin Baek, Jung Ho Ahn.
IEEE CAL '25Best of CAL "Per-Row Activation Counting on Real Hardware: Demystifying Performance Overheads"
Jumin Kim, Seungmin Baek, Minbok Wi, Hwayong Nam, Michael Jaemin Kim, Sukhan Lee, Kyomin Sohn, Jung Ho Ahn.
DRAMSec '25 "Sudoku: Decomposing DRAM Address Mapping into Component Functions"
Minbok Wi, Seungmin Baek, Seonyong Park, Mattan Erez, Jung Ho Ahn.
ASPLOS '25 "Marionette: A RowHammer Attack via Row Coupling"
Seungmin Baek, Minbok Wi, Seonyong Park, Hwayong Nam, Michael Jaemin Kim, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn.
ISCA '24 "DRAMScope: Uncovering DRAM Microarchitecture and Characteristics by Issuing Memory Commands"
Hwayong Nam, Seungmin Baek, Minbok Wi, Michael Jaemin Kim, Jaehyun Park, Chihun Song, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn.
IEEE CAL '24 "X-ray: Discovering DRAM Internal Structure and Error Characteristics by Issuing Memory Commands"
Hwayong Nam, Seungmin Baek, Minbok Wi, Michael Jaemin Kim, Jaehyun Park, Chihun Song, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn.

Education

Seoul National University

Mar. 2023 – Present
Ph.D. in Intelligence & Information Convergence | Advisor: Prof. Jung Ho Ahn

Korea University

Mar. 2017 – Feb. 2023
B.S. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Academic Service

Technical Program Committee 2026
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
Artifact Evaluation Committee 2026
IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

Honors & Awards

Best of CAL Award Feb. 2026
HPCA 2026, Australia
Excellent Research Talent Fellowship Sep. 2023 – Feb. 2024
Brain Korea (BK) 21
LG Electronics Paper Award Jun. 2022
Summer Annual Conference of IEIE

Invited Talks

"Optimizing HBM-based Memory System for Large Language Models" May 2026
Meta Headquarters, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Teaching Assistant

II701: Principles and practices of memory-centric computing Spring 2026
Seoul National University

Skills