Ki-Dong Kang

Research Interests

  • Energy-Efficient Systems
  • Virtualization
  • Network Systems
  • Hardware Security

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, DGIST, Daegu, Feb, 2022
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, DGIST, Daegu, Feb, 2017
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Gachon University, Seongnam, Feb, 2015

Scholarships & Awards

  • Administrator’s Award, Ministry of Science and ICT, February 2022.
  • Kyu-Young Whang Outstanding Research Award, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, October 2021.
  • Outstanding Student Award, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, December 2020.
  • Student Scholarship, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), October 2018.

Publications

* Corresponding Author
ISCA | TOP-Tier | Security
DarkStream: Exploiting Internal Throughput Contention in Data Streaming Accelerator for Timing Attacks

Hyosang Kim, Ki-Dong Kang, Gyeongseo Park, Sungju Kim, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2026

Nominated for the Best Paper Award
MICRO | TOP-Tier | Next-Gen Memory System
Beyond Page Migration: Enhancing Tiered Memory Performance via Integrated Last-Level Cache Management and Page Migration

Hwanjun Lee, Minho Kim, Yeji Jung, Seonmu Oh, Ki-Dong Kang, Seunghak Lee, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2025

MICRO | TOP-Tier | Power/Resource Management
EcoCore: Dynamic Core Management for Improving Energy Efficiency in Latency-Critical Applications

Gyeongseo Park, Minho Kim, Ki-Dong Kang, Yunhyeong Jeon, Seulki Kim, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2025

HPCA | TOP-Tier | Security
BrokenSleep: Remote Power Timing Attack Exploiting Processor Idle States

Hyosang Kim, Gyeongseo Park, Ki-Dong Kang, Seungkyu Lee, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2025

DATE | Major | Power/Resource Management
Co-UP: Comprehensive Core and Uncore Power Management for Latency-Critical Workloads

Ki-Dong Kang, Gyeongseo Park, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2025

PACT | TOP-Tier | Cloud Next-Gen Memory System
vSPACE: Supporting Parallel Network Packet Processing in Virtualized Environments through Dynamic Core Management

Gyeongseo Park, Minho Kim, Ki-Dong Kang, Yunhyeong Jeon, Sungju Kim, Hyosang Kim, and Daehoon Kim*.

International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2024

CAL | SCI | Architecture Security
NoHammer: Preventing Row Hammer With Last-Level Cache Management

Seunghak Lee, Ki-Dong Kang, Gyeongseo Park, Nam Sung Kim, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2023

CAL | SCI | Cloud Power/Resource Management
CoreNap: Energy Efficient Core Allocation for Latency-Critical Workloads

Gyeongseo Park, Ki-Dong Kang, Minho Kim, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2023

Power Management for Energy-Efficient Computing Environments in Data Centers

Ki-Dong Kang, Hoon Sung Chwa, and Daehoon Kim*.

Daegugyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), 2022

MICRO | TOP-Tier | Architecture Power/Resource Management
GreenDIMM: OS-assisted DRAM Power Management for DRAM with a Sub-array Granularity Power-Down State

Seunghak Lee, Ki-Dong Kang, Hwanjun Lee, Hyungwon Park, Younghoon Son, Nam Sung Kim, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2021

MICRO | TOP-Tier | Cloud Power/Resource Management
NMAP: Power Management Based on Network Packet Processing Mode Transition for Latency-Critical Workloads

Ki-Dong Kang, Gyeongseo Park, Hyosang Kim, Mohammad Alian, Nam Sung Kim, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2021

ICCD | Major | Cloud Power/Resource Management
Improving the Efficiency of Power Management via Dynamic Interrupt Management

Ki-Dong Kang, Hyungwon Park[co-first author], Gyeongseo Park, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020

CAL | SCI | Architecture Cloud
IDIO: Orchestrating Inbound Network Data on Server Processors

Mohammad Alian*, Jongmin Shin[co-first author], Ki-Dong Kang, Ren Wang, Alexandros Daglis, Daehoon Kim*, and Nam Sung Kim.

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2021

Access | SCI | Cloud Power/Resource Management
Co-Adjusting Voltage/Frequency State and Interrupt Rate for Improving Energy-Efficiency of Latency-Critical Applications

Ki-Dong Kang, Hyungwon Park[co-first author], Gyeongseo Park, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE Access (Access), 2020

CAL | SCI | Cloud Power/Resource Management
Network Packet Processing Mode-Aware Power Management for Data Center Servers

Ki-Dong Kang, Gyeongseo Park, Nam Sung Kim, and Daehoon Kim*.

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2020

SoCC | Major
VIP: Virtual Performance-State for Efficient Power Management of Virtual Machines

Ki-Dong Kang, Mohammad Alian, Daehoon Kim*, Jaehyuk Huh, and Nam Sung Kim.

ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2018

Patents

Apparatus and method for interrupt control

Daehoon Kim, Ki-Dong Kang, and Hyungwon Park.

issued, US, Application No. 17-405132 (2021.08.18), Registration No. 11640364 (2023.05.02)

Electronic device for controlling interrupt based on transmission queue and control method thereof

Daehoon Kim, Hyungwon Park, Ki-Dong Kang, and Gyeongseo Park.

issued, Korea, Application No. 10-2020-0189606 (2020.12.31), Registration No. 10-2503579 (2023.02.21)

Electronic device and controlling method of electonic device

Daehoon Kim, Hyungwon Park, Ki-Dong Kang, and Gyeongseo Park.

issued, Korea, Application No. 10-2020-0188031 (2020.12.30), Registration No. 10-2625723 (2024.01.11)

Apparatus and method for interrupt control

Daehoon Kim, Ki-Dong Kang, and Hyungwon Park.

issued, Korea, Application No. 10-2020-0174846 (2020.12.14), Registration No. 10-2549360 (2023.06.26)

Electronic device and power management method thereof

Daehoon Kim, and Ki-Dong Kang.

issued, Korea, Application No. 10-2020-0075325 (2020.06.19), Registration No. 10-2437625 (2022.08.24)