[1] She is a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science,[2] where she heads the High Performance Architecture Lab.
She continued for a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Seoul National University, and then worked in industry for two years at the Hyundai Motor Company,[5] performing research on car engines.
[6] Next, she went to the University of Texas at Austin for graduate study in electrical engineering, earning a master's degree and completing her Ph.D. in 2007.
[5] Her doctoral dissertation, Adaptive predication via compiler-microarchitecture cooperation, was supervised by Yale Patt.
[8] She also holds an affiliation as adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.