Soojung Ryu

Soojung Ryu is a Vice President at SK telecom. She is leading SAPEON development, which is the first Korean commercial AI accelerator chip for servers. Before joining SK telecom, she was a University-Industry Collaboration Professor at Seoul National University. She is currently a member of AI and SW Advisory Committee of Ministry of Science and ICT in Korea. She worked for Samsung Electronics from 2004 to 2018 as a processor architect after she received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She was a Vice President at Samsung Electronics from Dec 2014 to 2018. She was leading a processor design and SW framework development for digital signal processor (Samsung Reconfigurable Processor) and Samsung Mobile Graphics Processing Unit. She served as a Board of Directors of Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation from 2017 to 2018 and also a Specification contributor from 2013 to 2018. Her current research focus is deep neural network accelerator design as well as the high-performance processor solutions for various application areas.