Sungchan Yi

• Email: calofmijuck at snu dot ac dot kr
• Website: this

Research Interests: Computer architecture and hardware-software co-design

Education

Seoul National University (2024. 9 ~ Present)

• M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at Architecture and Code Optimization Lab
• Advisor: Professor Jae W. Lee
• GPA: 4.0/4.3

Seoul National University (2017. 3 ~ 2024. 2)

• B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Minor in Mathematics
• GPA: 3.96/4.3 (Summa Cum Laude)

Experience

Undergraduate Research Intern

Cryptography & Privacy Lab (2024. 1 ~ 2024. 2)

• Implementation of BFV homomorphic encryption scheme and bootstrapping over large message space

Software Foundations Lab (2023. 7 ~ 2023. 10)

• Studies on verifying concurrency models and compilers with Coq

Architecture and Code Optimization Lab (2023. 1 ~ 2023. 3)

• Experiments on efficient knowledge distillation with activation functions

Work Experience

Scatterlab (2020. 11 ~ 2022. 9)

• Backend/Security/SRE Engineer
• Spring Boot (Java) Backend, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS Cloud Security and Operations

Logpresso (2019. 7 ~ 2020. 10)

• Big Data Platform Engineer
• Java Backend, Data/Query Processing Interface Development

Publications

• [ACCV’24] Soosung Kim, Yeonhong Park, Hyunseung Lee, Sungchan Yi, and Jae W. Lee, “ReLUifying Smooth Functions: Low-Cost Knowledge Distillation to Obtain High-Performance ReLU Networks”, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2024. (PDF)
• Sungchan Yi, “Secure IAM on AWS with Multi-Account Strategy”, Undergraduate Thesis, December 2023. Received best undergraduate paper award. (PDF)

Projects

• Multi-task fine-tuning with BERT
  • Replicating the results in the BERT paper and improving BERT through multi-task learning
• Letter/News Service for Korea Army Training Center
  • Simplified lettering service and automated news articles for trainees
• Private Medical Chatbot with HEaaN
  • Application of privacy-preserving machine learning using homomorphic encryption

Awards

• Best Undergraduate Paper Award
  • Title: Secure IAM on AWS using Multi-Account Strategy
• Top Prize in HDCON 2021 (Hacking and Defense Contest)
  • Topic: Design and Operation of Secure Cloud Architectures

Technical Skills & Interests

• Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Python, Golang, Coq
• Architectural Simulators: gem5
• System/cloud security and cryptography
• Compilers and formal verification
• Mathematics in general, especially algebra and analysis