Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
  Aug. 2023 – present
  Research: software/hardware co-design for low, predictable end-to-end latency and high throughput.
  Co-advised by Huaicheng Li and Sam H. Noh.
• M.S. in Computer Science, Dankook University, Yongin-si, Republic of Korea
  Graduated Fall 2023 — GPA 4.4 / 4.5
  Thesis: Design Tradeoff in ZNS SSD performance. Research: SW/HW co-optimization with ZNS SSD internals and filesystem.
  Advisor: Jongmoo Choi.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Dankook University, Yongin-si, Republic of Korea
  Graduated Spring 2022 — GPA 4.06 / 4.5
  Department of Software.

Publications

• Inho Song, Shoaib A. Qazi, Javier González, Matias Bjørling, Sam H. Noh, and Huaicheng Li. Characterizing and Emulating FDP SSDs with Warp. 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '26), 2026. [PDF]
• Hangyul Kim, Inho Song, and Sam H. Noh. CRAZNS: A Case for Conventional Namespace Support for RAID with ZNS SSDs. 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '25), Catania, Italy, 2025.
• Inho Song, Myunghoon Oh, Bryan S. Kim, Seehwan Yoo, Jae-Dong Lee, and Jongmoo Choi. ConfZNS: A Novel Emulator for Exploring Design Space of ZNS SSDs. 16th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR '23), 2023.

Journal

• Inho Song, Wonjin Lee, Jae-Dong Lee, Seehwan Yoo, and Jongmoo Choi. Overcoming a Zone Reclaiming Overhead with Partial-Zone Reclaiming. Journal of KIISE: Computer Systems and Theory, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 115–124, 2024.

Patent

• Jongmoo Choi, Samuel Woo, and Inho Song. Method for analyzing vehicle forensic and computing device for execution the same. Republic of Korea Patent 10-2022-0139234 — granted.

Experience

• Intern, Controller Architecture Modeling Engineer — Samsung Electronics, Controller Architecture Team (CAT), San Jose, CA.
  May – Aug. 2024.
  Modeled and delivered hardware-software co-design solutions using NVMe FDP storage and industry-level storage system simulation.
• Visiting Scholar — Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University.
  July – Dec. 2022. Co-advised by Bryan S. Kim and Jongmoo Choi.

Skills

Certificate

• Secondary School Teacher's Certificate (Grade II, Information & Computer), Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea (2022).

Selected awards & service

• Graduation Excellence Award, Dankook University (2022).
• Academic Excellence Scholarship — Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2016.
• Dean's List — Spring 2020, Fall 2019.
• IITP International Joint Workshop for High-Potential Individuals Global Training Program (2022).