Wonkyo Choe

Ph.D. Candidate · University of Virginia

Curriculum vitae
Portrait of Wonkyo Choe
Clarity and simplicity

I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Felix Xiaozhu Lin. I build efficient and scalable infrastructure for AI workloads.

My research connects low-level systems design with the needs of modern AI applications. I work across operating systems and machine learning infrastructure to improve performance and resource efficiency, from datacenters to edge devices.

In my free time, I enjoy bouldering and taking photos with my old 35mm camera.

Ongoing projects

  • Fast data transfer in AI infrastructure (exploratory)
    Exploring efficient data movement for reinforcement learning training, with potential directions including KV cache transfer and scheduling between rollout generation and training.

  • Resource handover on Kubernetes (under submission)
    Wonkyo Choe, Felix Xiaozhu Lin
    Mitigating the performance degradation that AI workloads suffer during resource handover on Kubernetes.

Selected publications

  • SpMAP: Transparent Sparsity for LLMs (MobiSys’26)
    Wonkyo Choe, Felix Xiaozhu Lin
    [PDF]

  • RWKV-Lite: Deeply Compressed RWKV for Resource-Constrained Devices (arxiv)
    Wonkyo Choe, Yangfeng Ji, Felix Xiaozhu Lin
    [PDF]

  • AnA: An Attentive Autonomous Driving System (ASPLOS’25)
    Wonkyo Choe, Rongxiang Wang, Felix Xiaozhu Lin
    [PDF]

Other publications

  • Proto: A Guided Journey through Modern OS Construction (SOSP’25)
    Wonkyo Choe*, Rongxiang Wang*, Afsara Benazir*, Felix Xiaozhu Lin
    (* = equal contribution)
    [PDF]

  • Efficient NLP Inference at the Edge via Elastic Pipelining (ASPLOS’23)
    Liwei Guo, Wonkyo Choe, Felix Xiaozhu Lin
    [PDF]

  • Rethinking Remote Memory Placement on Large-Memory Systems with Path Diversity (ApSys’21)
    Wonkyo Choe*, Sang-Hoon Kim, Jeongseob Ahn
    [PDF]

  • Exploring the Design Space of Page Management for Multi-Tiered Memory Systems (ATC’21)
    Jonghyeon Kim*, Wonkyo Choe, Jeongseob Ahn
    [PDF]

  • A Study of Memory Placement on Hardware-Assisted Tiered Memory Systems (CAL’20)
    Wonkyo Choe*, Jonghyeon Kim, Jeongseob Ahn
    [PDF]