Se-Min Ryan Lim
Assistant Professor at Kookmin University
Assistant Professor at the
Software Department
School of Computer Science
Kookmin University
Office: 102, Guest House B, Kookmin Univ, 77, Jeongneung-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 02707
E-Mail: seminl1@kookmin.ac.kr
Github: SeMinLim
LinkedIn:Se-Min (Ryan) Lim
About Me
I am an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at Kookmin University. My academic trajectory includes the attainment of a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine in 2025, and both a Master's and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering at Korea University in 2019 and 2017.My latest CV is available via this link: My Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
My research focuses on "Application-driven, cross-layer system architectural innovations considering emerging accelerators and their real-world implementations." The specific and categorized research interests are listed below.
- System Architecture
- Hardware Accelerators
- Software-Hardware Co-Design
- Memory or Storage-Centric Processing
Software Distributions
zfpe - Hardware accelerators for MobileNets and hardware-friendly lossy floating-point compression scheme, ZFPe
morbius - Motif finding system in bioinformatics
durin - Quadtree index structure-based DBSCAN clustering algorithm
bancroft - Genome compression software and hardware algorithm
Patents
- 2019
- Hyeong-Cheol Oh, Se-Min Lim, and Seongjin Choi, "Pipelined Squarer for Unsigned Integers of up to 16 Bits," KR101974779, filed Apr. 25, 2019.
Publications
My Google Scholar Profile
- 2026
- Se-Min Lim and Sang-Woo Jun, "Wakanda: Scalable Graph Neural Networks via Near-Storage Accelerated Graph Database," Preparing submission, 2026.
- Se-Min Lim, Quang Anh Hoang, and Sang-Woo Jun, "Jarvis: CPU-FPGA Heterogeneous Platform for Boolean Satisfiability Problem Solver," Preparing submission, 2026.
- Se-Min Lim, Seongyoung Kang, Gongjin Sun, and Sang-Woo Jun, "GableSort: Scalable Sorting Beyond Memory Capacity via Adaptive ColumnSort Acceleration," Preparing submission, 2026.
- 2025
- Se-Min Lim, Seongyoung Kang, and Sang-Woo Jun, "Bancroft: Genomics Acceleration Beyond On-Device Memory," International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2025.
- Gongjin Sun, Seongyoung Kang, Jane He, Se-Min Lim, and Sang-Woo Jun, "Labidus: RISC‑V Overlay with Streaming Asynchronous Custom Instructions," IEEE International Conference on Application‑specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors (ASAP), 2025
- 2024
- Se-Min Lim, Esmerald Aliaj, and Sang-Woo Jun, "Durin: CPU-FPGA Heterogeneous Platform for Scalable Low-Dimensional Data Clustering," IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2024.
- Se-Min Lim, Esmerald Aliaj, and Sang-Woo Jun, "Morbius: Platform-Adaptive Hardware Accelerator for Scalable Sequence Motif Discovery," 20th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2024.
- Se-Min Lim and Sang-Woo Jun, "FlexForge: Efficient Reconfigurable Cloud Acceleration via Peripheral Resource Disaggregation," Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2024.
- 2022
- Se-Min Lim and Sang-Woo Jun, "MobileNets Can Be Lossily Compressed: Neural Network Compression for Embedded Accelerators," Electronics, 2022.
- 2019
- Se-Min Lim, Jooyoung Park, and Hyeong-Cheol Oh, "Low-cost Method for Recognizing Table Tennis Activity," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2019.
- 2018
- Se-Min Lim, "AI-Based Coaching Assistant System for Sport Practice," Master's Thesis, Korea University, 2018.
- Se-Min Lim, Hyeong-Cheol Oh, Jaein Kim, Juwon Lee, and Jooyoung Park, "LSTM-Guided Coaching Assistant for Table Tennis Practice," Sensors, 2018.