Soo-Mook Moon

Soo-Mook Moon

Professor

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Seoul National University

San 56-1 ShinLim-Dong, KwanAk-Gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea

E-mail: smoon at snu.ac.kr
URL: http://altair.snu.ac.kr/~smoon
Phone: +82-2-880-1814
Fax: +82-2-882-4656

Secretary: Ms. Mi-Ran Lee (phone: +82-2-880-9372)

Areas of Interests

Virtual machines
Instruction-level parallelism (ILP)
Compiler optimizations
Optimizations of web clients

Research

Soo-Mook Moon leads the Virtual Machine and Optimization (VM&O) Laboratory in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Seoul National University. VM&O Lab. is researching language virtual machines as well as high-performance virtual machines based on advanced compilation optimization techniques. Currently, there are 11 students in the VM&O Lab. (7 Ph.D and 4 M.S.).

Current and Previous Industry Projects

LaTTe and VLaTTe: optimized Java VM JIT compilers for RISCs and VLIWs
(IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Optimizations for Dalvik Virtual Machines for Multicores
(Samsung Electronics)
Instruction scheduling for In-Order Superscalar Processors
(Sun Microsystems)
Java Just-in-Time Compilation for Instruction-level Parallelism on EPIC Architectures
(Intel)
Enhanced Pipelinine Scheduling for EPIC Architectures
(HP-Intel IPF University Grants Program)
Enhanced Pipeline Scheduling for IPF with Cache Optimizations
(Gelato at UIUC for HP)
Just-in-Time Compilation for Mobile JavaScript Engines
(Samsung Electronics)
Java Optimization for Digital TVs and Blu-ray Disc Players
(LG Electronics)
Optimizing Compilers for CalmRISC 8/16/32-bit microcontrollers
(Samsung Electronics)

Selected Publications

"Efficient Register Mapping and Allocation in LaTTe, an Open-Source Java Just-in-Time Compiler "
Byung-Sun Yang and Soo-Mook Moon et. al
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(1), Jan 2007
"Optimistic Register Coalescing"
Jinpyo Park and Soo-Mook Moon
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 26(4), Jul 2004
"Split-Path Enhanced Pipeline Scheduling"
SangMin Shim and Soo-Mook Moon
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 14(5), May 2003
"Unroll-based Copy Elimination for Enhanced Pipeline Scheduling"
Suhyun Kim, Soo-Mook Moon, Jinpyo Park, and Kemal Ebcioglu
IEEE Transations on Computers, September 2002.
"Reducing Sweep Time for a Nearly Empty Heap"
Yoo C. Chung, Soo-Mook Moon, Kemal Ebcioglu, and Dan Sahlin
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on
Principles of Programming Languages (POPL '00), Boston, MA, 2000.
"Parallelizing Nonnumerical Code with Selective Scheduling and Software Pipelining"
Soo-Mook Moon and Kemal Ebcioglu
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 19(6), Nov. 1997

Program Committees

CGO 2012 : The 2012 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, San Jose, USA 2012
APLAS 2008 : The 6th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, Bangalore, India, Dec 9-11, 2008
NPC 2007 : The IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Compuing, Dalian, China, Sep 18-21, 2007
NPC 2005 : The IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Compuing, Beijing, China, Nov 30- Dec 3, 2005
APLAS 2005 : The 3rd Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, Nov 3-5, 2005
PACT 2002 : The 11th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, Charlottesville, Virginia, September 22-25, 2002
LCTES'2001 : ACM SIGPLAN 2001 Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, Snowbird, Utah, June 22, 2001
FDDO-3 : 3rd ACM Workshop on Feedback-Directed and Dynamic Optimization, Monterey, California, December 10, 2000
DynAMO'00 : First ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Dynamic and Adaptive Mechanisms for Optimizations
Boston, Massachusetts, January 19, 2000
Micro-32 : 32nd Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture,
Haifa, Israel, November 16-18, 1999
CASES'99 : 2nd International Workshop on Compiler and Architecture Support for Embedded Computing Systems
Washington D.C., October 1-2, 1999
Binary'99 : Workshop on Binary Translation
Newport Beach, California, October 12, 1999

Awards

IBM Faculty Partnership Awards September, 2000
A total of about 100 IBM Faculty Partnership Awards were given worldwide this year (2000/2001), including all research areas. The description of the IBM Faculty Partnership Awards states: "Candidates must have an outstanding reputation for contributions in his or her field(s), or for the case of junior faculty, show unusual promise."
Best Teacher Award April, 2002
College of Engineering, Seoul National University

Biographical Sketch

Soo-Mook Moon received his Ph.D at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1993. During 1992-1993, he worked at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he developed the IBM VLIW compiler. During 1993-1994, he was a software design engineer at the Hewlett-Packard Company in California Language Lab where he contributed to the development of an optimizing compiler for the PA-RISC CPUs. Since 1994, he has been with the faculty of the Seoul National University in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science where he is now a full professor. Professor Moon visited IBM T. J. Watson research center as a visiting scientist during the summer of 1997. He was with Sun Microsystems in 2002-2003 as a visiting professor.