Seung-seob Lee
I am an Associate Research Scientist and a part of Efficient Computing Lab led by Prof. Zhong and NOVA Lab led by Prof. Khandelwal in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University.
I am passionate about building scalable, developer-friendly computing systems for disaggregated data centers, particularly to support emerging applications such as AI workloads through the co-design of systems and networking layers. More broadly, I am interested in embedded systems, operating systems, and AI-serving systems to enhance the performance and efficiency of modern computing environments.
News
- Received NSF Award to fortify cloud confidential computing as a co-PI (with Anurag and Lin)
- Spirit has been accepted to SOSP ‘25
- Mage has been accepted to SOSP ‘25
- Sym has been accepted to SOSP ‘25
- PULSE has been accepted to ASPLOS ‘25
- Blindfold has been accepted to NDSS ‘25 (Distinguished Paper)
Research Projects
Refer to my CV for the full publication list.
Disaggregated architecture for (edge) data centers
- Seung-seob Lee, Jachym Putta, Ziming Mao, and Anurag Khandelwal, “Spirit: Fair Allocation of Interdependent Resources in Remote Memory Systems,” SOSP, 2025 (to appear).
- Yupeng Tang, Seung-seob Lee, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, and Anurag Khandelwal, “PULSE: Accelerating Distributed Pointer-Traversals on Disaggregated Memory,” ASPLOS 2025.
- Seung-seob Lee, Yanpeng Yu, Yupeng Tang, Anurag Khandelwal, Lin Zhong, and Abhishek Bhattacharjee, “MIND: In-Network Memory Management for Disaggregated Data Centers,” in Proceedings of SOSP, 2021.
Beyond traditional LLM serving systems
- In Gim, Zhiyao Ma, Seung-seob Lee, and Lin Zhong, “Sym: A Programmable Serving System for Emerging LLM Applications,” SOSP, 2025 (to appear).
- In Gim, Seung-seob Lee, and Lin Zhong, “Asynchronous LLM Function Calling,” arXiv (under review).
- In Gim, Guojun Chen, Seung-seob Lee, Nikhil Sarda, Anurag Khandelwal, and Lin Zhong, “Prompt Cache: Modular Attention Reuse for Low-Latency Inference,” in Proceedings of MLSys, 2024.
System security for mobile & embedded devices
- Caihua Li, Seung-seob Lee, and Lin Zhong, “Blindfold: Confidential Memory Management by Untrusted Operating System,” NDSS 2025 (Distinguished Paper).
- Seung-seob Lee, Hang Shi, Kun Tan, Yunxin Liu, SuKyoung Lee, and Yong Cui, “S2Net: Preserving Privacy in Smart Home Routers,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1409-1424, 01 May-June 2021 (published online since June 2019).
Work Experience
- 2022.2–: Associate Research Scientist, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
- 2020.2–2022.1: Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
- 2019.9–2019.12: Researcher, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
- 2015.9–2016.5: Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
Education
- M.S./Ph.D. (2011–2019), Computer Science, Yonsei University, Korea
- B.S. (2007–2010), Computer Science, Yonsei University, Korea