Jeonghwan Choi

Computer Systems Lab.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University

Adress: 349IST Building, University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-3627 (office), 814-769-9068 (mobile)

Email: j_e_c_h_o_i @ c_s_e . p_s_u . e_d_u


About Me and Research Interests

I am a Post-doctoral Researcher at Penn State University. I am working with Dr. Anand Sivasubramaniam and Dr. Bhuvan Urgaonkar. And my research interests includes Power/Temperature-Aware System Design, Virtual Machine, Distributed System, File and Storage Systems, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, etc. I received my Ph.D degree in fall 2007 from Korea Institute of Advanced Science and Technology.

Publications

[IEEE TC] CFD-based Tool for Studying Temperature in Rack-mounted Servers J. Choi, Y. Kim, A. Sivasubramaniam, J. Srebric, Q. Wang, and J. Lee, IEEE Transactions on Computer (TC), IEEE Press, 2008 (To Appear).
[ThermoStat Tool Download]
[ASME JEP] Managing Thermal Emergencies in Disk-Based Storage Systems Y. Kim, J. Choi, S. Gurumurthi, and A. Sivasubramaniam, In a special ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging (JEP), (Under Review).
[HPCA-13] Modeling and Managing Thermal Profiles of Rack-mounted Servers with ThermoStat J. Choi, Y. Kim, A. Sivasubramaniam, J. SreBRic, Q. Wang, and J. Lee, In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-13), February, 2007 (16% Acceptance rate, 28 out of 174 submissions) (Best Paper Candidate). [Bibtex]
[ISLPED] Thermal-aware Task Scheduling at the System Software Level J. Choi, C. Cher, H. Franke, H. Haman, A. Weger, and P. Bose In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design(ISLPED), August, 2007. .
[THETA-1] Graceful Operation of Disk Drives under Thermal Emergencies Y. Kim, J. Choi, S. Gurumurthi, and A. Sivasubramaniam, In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Thermal Issues in Emerging Technologies Theory and Application (THETA-1), January, 2007. [Bibtex]

Educations

2007.8: Ph.D. in Computer Science, EECS, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
1998.2: M.S. in Information and Communication Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
1990.2: B.S. in Computer Science, EECS, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Skills

Programming Languages:
C, C++, Unix Shell Scripts (bash, tcsh, ksh etc.), Java, Perl, Awk, HTML, Prolog, SQL.
Specific Expertise:
Linux kernel programming, Power/Thermal modeing, System/Network Programming, Development of Simulators.
Tools:
MATLAB, Gdb, Lex, Yacc, Latex.
Operating Systems:
Unix (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX) and familiar with Windows XP/2K/NT/Vista.

Work Experience

09/2007 - Present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of CSE, The Pennsylvania State University
08/2005 - 08/2007: Visiting Scholar, Dept. of CSE, The Pennsylvania State University
05/2006 - 09/2006: Research Intern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
07/1998 - 07/2001: Chief Development Officer, Daum Communication Co. Ltd., Korea
01/1990 - 07/1998: Senior Researcher, Samsung SDS, Korea

Scholastic Achievements

Brain Korea 21 Oversea Outreach Scholarship, BK21, Korea (08/2005 - 07/2006).
Korea National Full Scholarship, KAIST, (09/2001 - 08/2007).
Samsung Scholarship for Employee, Samsung, (09/1994 - 02/1998).
Korea National Full Scholarship, KAIST, (02/1986 - 02/1990).