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SangJoon Hwang
SangJoon Hwang received B.S, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electric engineering from the Korea University in 1994, 1996, and 2008, respectively.
He joined the Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, South Korea in 1996, where he had successfully led a DRAM design group in 2014 and the Flash design team in 2017 as a Vice President and the Memory Product Planning team in 2019 as as a Senior Vice President. Through leading various backgounds from product planning to design, his experience enhances the overall quality of Samsung DRAM products.
Since 2023, he has been leading the DRAM Product & Technology of the Samsung memory division. His current research interests include architecture for next-generation DRAM and product development utilizing new process technology for new product line-up.
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Yang Seok Ki
Dr. Yang Seok Ki is a Vice President and CTO of the Memory Solutions Lab (MSL) at Samsung Semiconductor Inc. in San Jose, California. Since joining Samsung in 2011, he has led various advanced development projects including SmartSSD, Key-Value SSD, CXL Memory Expander, Memory Semantic SSD, etc. In addition, he led the NVMe Key Value Standard, SNIA Key Value API, SNIA Computational Storage Architecture and API. He is a CXL board of director and a technical chair of Data Centric Computing workstream of the Open Computing Project (OCP) Future Technology Initiative (FTI). Prior to joining Samsung, he worked for Oracle's Server Technology Group. Prior to his industrial career, he was involved in High Performance Computing (HPC), Grid Computing, and Cloud research at the Institute of Information Sciences at the University of Southern California and the Center for Networked Systems at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, and his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University. He also completed the Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP) from the University of California, Berkeley.