About Me
Hi, I am a 3rd year PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, advised by Prof. Kiwan Maeng. My research focuses on building efficient computer systems through hardware-software co-design. My work spans privacy-preserving machine learning, including differentially private training and fully homomorphic encryption, and more recently extends to LLM serving systems for agentic AI workloads. Before joining Penn State, I was fortunate to work at SCALE lab, advised by Prof. Jung Ho Ahn.
(Updated. Oct 2026)
News
- Sep 2026 Our paper “Characterizing How Complex Agentic AI Systems Handle General Tasks: A Trace-Based Simulation Study” received the Best Paper Award and the Distinguished Artifact Award at IISWC’26!
- Jul 2026 Our paper “Cocoon: A System Architecture for Differentially Private Training with Correlated Noises” was presented in OSDI’26!
Publications
[IISWC’26] Donghwan Kim, Prakhar Singh, Younghoon Min, Jongryool Kim, Jongse Park, Kiwan Maeng, “Characterizing How Complex Agentic AI Systems Handle General Tasks: A Trace-Based Simulation Study”, in IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2026. (Best Paper Award, Distinguished Artifact Award) paper github
[OSDI’26] Donghwan Kim, Xin Gu, Jinho Baek, Timothy Lo, Younghoon Min, Kwangsik Shin, Jongryool Kim, Jongse Park, Kiwan Maeng, “Cocoon: A System Architecture for Differentially Private Training with Correlated Noises”, in USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2026. paper video
[CAL’25] SeokHyeon Kong, Donghwan Kim, Euiseong Seo, Kiwan Maeng, “Characterizing the System Overhead of Discrete Noise Generation for Differential Privacy”, in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2025. paper
[CCS’24] Jae Hyung Ju*, Jaiyoung Park*, Jongmin Kim, Minsik Kang, Donghwan Kim, Jung Hee Cheon, Jung Ho Ahn, “NeuJeans: Private Neural Network Inference with Joint Optimization of Convolution and FHE Bootstrapping”, in ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024. (*equal contribution) paper
[Access’23] Donghwan Kim*, Jaiyoung Park*, Jongmin Kim, Sangpyo Kim, Jung Ho Ahn, “HyPHEN: A Hybrid Packing Method and Its Optimizations for Homomorphic Encryption-based Neural Networks”, in IEEE Access, 2023. (*equal contribution) paper
[DISCC’23] Jaiyoung Park, Donghwan Kim, Wonkyung Jung, Sangpyo Kim, Jongmin Kim, Jung Hee Cheon, Jung Ho Ahn, “Toward Practical Privacy-Preserving Convolutional Neural Networks Exploiting Fully Homomorphic Encryption”, in Workshop on Data Integrity and Secure Cloud Computing (DISCC), 2023. paper
[ISCA’23] Jongmin Kim, Sangpyo Kim, Jaewan Choi, Jaiyoung Park, Donghwan Kim, Jung Ho Ahn, “SHARP: A Short-Word Hierarchical Accelerator for Robust and Practical Fully Homomorphic Encryption”, in International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2023. paper
Education
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA — Aug 2024 – Present
- Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Engineering
- Advisor: Kiwan Maeng
Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea — Mar 2022 – Feb 2024
- Master of Science, Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence
- Advisor: Jung Ho Ahn
Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea — Mar 2016 – Feb 2022
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (*2-years leave due to military service)
Work Experience
LLM Serving System Research Intern – SK Hynix America, San Jose, CA — May 2026 – Aug 2026
Tutorials
- “CrypTorch: Easy-to-use and Efficient PyTorch-based Compiler Infrastructure for Machine Learning with MPC”, ASPLOS 2026 Tutorial website
Teaching Experience
Introduction to Computer Architecture (CMPEN 431) — Fall 2025
- Weekly recitation, grading assignments
Computer Organization and Design (CMPEN 331) — Fall 2024
- Weekly recitation and office hours; grading assignments and exams
Programming Methodology — Spring 2022
- Taught weekly lab sessions / Implemented C++ final term project
