Park Jung-eon (master's student, supervisor: Professor Kim Young-jae) of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering received the Excellent Paper Award in the computer systems field at the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers conference (KSC 2019) held on 19 December 2019, for a paper titled 'A Comparative Analysis of the Performance, Power and Heat of STT-MRAM-Based Storage Devices'.

▲ Park Jung-eon

▲ Certificate from the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers conference

The Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers conference (KSC 2019) is an information science and technology conference at which the latest research results across every area of information technology — artificial intelligence, computer systems, the Internet of Things, databases and more — are presented. The paper, titled 'A Comparative Analysis of the Performance, Power and Heat of STT-MRAM-Based Storage Devices', defines the problems of NAND flash memory from a performance and energy perspective and analyses STT-MRAM, one of the storage class memories (SCM), as a storage solution to them. The research is expected to be usable in improving performance and energy efficiency in a variety of settings for next-generation memory, such as data centres and HPC.