Hwayong Nam

About Me

Hi! I am a Ph.D. candidate at Seoul National University (SNU), advised by Professor Jung Ho Ahn. Before joining SNU, I completed my BSE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Chung-Ang University (CAU).

My main research area includes computer architecture, DRAM microarchitecture, memory system, and memory reliability and security.

For more details, please refer to my CV.

Publication

ASPLOS

March 2025

M5: Mastering Page Migration and Memory Management for CXL-based Tiered Memory Systems

Yan Sun, Jongyul Kim, Zeduo Yu, Jiyuan Zhang, Siyuan Chai, Michael Jaemin Kim, Hwayong Nam, Jaehyun Park, Eojin Na, Yifan Yuan, Ren Wang, Jung Ho Ahn, Tianyin Xu, Nam Sung Kim

ASPLOS

March 2025

Marionette: A RowHammer Attack via Row Coupling

Seungmin Baek, Minbok Wi, Seonyong Park, Hwayong Nam, Michael Jaemin Kim, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn

ISCA

July 2024

DRAMScope: Uncovering DRAM Microarchitecture and Characteristics by Issuing Memory Commands

Hwayong Nam, Seungmin Baek, Minbok Wi, Michael Jaemin Kim, Jaehyun Park, Chihun Song, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn

ACM ICS

May 2024

CLAY: CXL-based Scalable NDP Architecture Accelerating Embedding Layers

Sungmin Yun, Hwayong Nam, Kwanhee Kyung, Jaehyun Park, Byeongho Kim, Yongsuk Kwon, Eojin Lee, Jung Ho Ahn

ASPLOS

April 2024

TAROT: A CXL SmartNIC-Based Defense Against Multi-bit Errors by Row-Hammer Attacks

Chihun Song, Michael Jaemin Kim, Tianchen Wang, Houxiang Ji, Jinghan Huang, Ipoom Jeong, Jaehyun Park, Hwayong Nam, Minbok Wi, Jung Ho Ahn, Nam Sung Kim

MICRO

May 2024

How to kill the second bird with one ecc: The pursuit of row hammer resilient dram

Michael Jaemin Kim, Minbok Wi, Jaehyun Park, Seoyoung Ko, Jaeyoung Choi, Hwayong Nam, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn, Eojin Lee

CAL

July 2023

X-ray: Discovering dram internal structure and error characteristics by issuing memory commands

Hwayong Nam, Seungmin Baek, Minbok Wi, Michael Jaemin Kim, Jaehyun Park, Chihun Song, Nam Sung Kim, Jung Ho Ahn

TC

June 2023

GraNDe: Efficient near-data processing architecture for graph neural networks

Sungmin Yun, Hwayong Nam, Jaehyun Park, Byeongho Kim, Jung Ho Ahn, Eojin Lee

CAL

June 2022

GraNDe: Near-data processing architecture with adaptive matrix mapping for graph convolutional networks

Sungmin Yun, Byeongho Kim, Jaehyun Park, Hwayong Nam, Jung Ho Ahn, Eojin Lee

Education

Seoul National University

Doctor of Philosophy

2021 - present

Ph.D candidate in Department of Intelligence and Information

Advisor: Jung Ho Ahn

Chung-Ang University

Bachelor of Science

2015 - 2021

B.S.E in Electrical and Electronics Engineering