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Hui Sub (David) Shim

PhD Student in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Senior Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics Memory Division
Pronouns
He/Him

I am a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, advised by Professor Philip Levis. My research explores computer systems architecture, with a focus on hardware–software co-design for memory and networking systems.

Before joining Stanford, I spent 9 years at Samsung Electronics in the Memory Division. As a firmware engineer and associate architect, I developed enterprise solid-state drives used worldwide and contributed to landmark products such as the world’s first PCIe Gen5 enterprise SSD and the world’s first 32 TB SAS enterprise SSD.

My professional journey bridges industry and academia. I have worked on high-impact engineering challenges at scale and now study fundamental research questions that aim to shape the future of datacenter efficiency.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration, High Honors, The University of Texas at Austin, 2012
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Highest Honors, The University of Texas at Austin, 2012

Research

Flow-Based Addressing for SmartNICsMy current research tackles a key bottleneck in high-performance SmartNICs: the mismatch between variable-sized packet streams and page-based DRAM. While SmartNICs accelerate network processing, repeated copying of pac

Memory Systems Beyond DRAM and Flash with CXL Building on this theme of memory–system co-design, I am exploring how Compute Express Link (CXL) can enable the use of emerging memory technologies with distinct performance characteristics from DRAM and NAND

Contact

Location

Gates 437

353 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305