Soohyun Cha's Blog

This is a brief explanation on my career. Here is my CV.


Education Education
  • [2024.03 ~ 2026.02] Seoul National University
    • M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Jaewoong Sim)
    • Thesis: Efficient Serving of Large Language Models with Adaptive Speculative Decoding
  • [2018.03 ~ 2024.02] Seoul National University
    • B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Graduated with Cum Laude

Work Work Experience
  • [2026.03 ~ ] Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, Research Engineer
    • [2026.07 ~ ] Efficient serving of LLMs on edge GPUs
  • [2024.01 ~ 2025.12] Computer Architecture and Systems Lab, Seoul National University, Graduate Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant
    • Research Interest: Computer systems and algorithms for efficient serving of emerging ML workloads, such as LLMs (Keywords: Quantization, Speculative Decoding)
    • Teaching Assistant: Digital System Design and Experiments (ECE 315A), Computer Organization (ECE 322)
  • [2022.07 ~ 2022.08] Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, Undergraduate internship

Publication Publications
NeurIPS-26
AdaTree: Serving-Aware Adaptive Tree Construction for Speculative Decoding
Soohyun Cha, Jungi Lee, Jaewoong Sim
The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Sydney, Australia, Dec 2026 (To appear)
MICRO-25
MX+: Pushing the Limits of Microscaling Formats for Efficient Large Language Model Serving
Jungi Lee, Junyong Park, Soohyun Cha, Jaehoon Cho, Jaewoong Sim
Proc. of the 58th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Seoul, Korea, Oct 2025

Honors Honors and Awards
  • [2023.12] Outstanding Tutor Award for Basic Computing course, Faculty of Liberal Education, SNU
  • [2018.03 ~ 2023.06] Full tuition Scholarship with National Science and Engineering Scholarship, Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF) for 8 semesters


Work Miscellaneous ...
  • [2020.07 ~ 2022.01] Military Service at Republic of Korea Army