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.

Curriculum Vitae

(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