KIWAN MAENG

Ph.D. Candidate · Electrical and Computer Engineering · Carnegie Mellon University
[CV]

I am a Ph.D. candidate studying computer engineering at CMU. My advisor is Professor Brandon Lucia. I am interested in building platforms, new programming models and runtime systems for energy-harvesting devices. Energy-harvesting devices have no reliable power source (e.g., battery) attached and instead operates on a scarce and unpredictable energy gathered by its harvester (e.g., solar panel). I seek to broaden the possibilities of the energy-harvesting devices using co-design of hardwares, compilers and runtime systems.

I am also an amateur webtoonist. Check out my work if you know Korean. Otherwise, do not bother.

Email: kwmaeng91 [at] gmail [dot] com

Publications

Supporting Peripherals in Intermittent Systems with Just-In-Time Checkpoints

Kiwan Maeng, Brandon Lucia

PLDI 2019 [PDF]

Adaptive Dynamic Checkpointing for Safe Efficient Intermittent Computing

Kiwan Maeng, Brandon Lucia

OSDI 2018 [PDF]

Alpaca: Intermittent Execution Without Checkpoints

Kiwan Maeng, Alexei Colin, Brandon Lucia

OOPSLA 2017 [PDF] [Landing Page]

Intermittent Computing: Challenges and Opportunities

Brandon Lucia, Vignesh Balaji, Alexei Colin, Kiwan Maeng, and Emily Ruppel

SNAPL 2017 [PDF]

Education & Experience

Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D. candidate, ECE

Advised by Prof. Brandon Lucia

2016 - Current

Seoul National University

B.S, ECE

GPA: 4.14 / 4.30 (Summa Cum Laude)

*Spent 3 years for military duty. Graduated in 7 semester.

2010 - 2016*

Awards & Honors

KFAS Scholarship (Full funding for Ph.D. studies through 2016 ~ Current)
Summa Cum Laude (B.S., Seoul National University)
National Scholarship for Science and Engineering (Full funding for undergraduate tuition through 2010 ~ 2016)

Webtoon

I am also an amateur webtoon--(web + cartoon)--ist. I mainly work on Facebook, but my work has also been published! It is about scientists and engineers. Do not bother clicking the link if you cannot read Korean :)

I only draw when I have spare time, which means new episode rarely comes out. Still I have things to boast:

I was awarded as 10 Authors of the Year 2017 by Chosun Ilbo (largest Korean newspaper).
My book was awarded as 10 Books of the Year 2017 by Munhwa Ilbo (newspaper), Books of the Year 2017 by Aladin (bookstore), Recommendations for Students By Librarians 2017 by Jeju Ilbo (newspaper), ranked 8th in Books of the Year Selected by Publishers SisaIN (magazine), and was nominated as Book of The Year by Donga Ilbo (newspaper).
My book was selected as Sejong-Books 2017 by Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea. No idea what it is but doesn't it sound fancy?
I donated all my profit from my first print in the hope to ease starvation in the République du Niger. Donation was made through Save The Children Federation, Inc.
I've got 58 thousand followers.

Miscellaneous

I am deeply into voluntary teaching. I worked as a teacher in various centers and organized / participated in a number of volunteering camps back in Korea. Here in the US I am less involved.. Though I teach Korean from time to time!

I love musicals and concerts, especially rocks. If you are a rock star, please consider visiting Pittsburgh when you plan for a tour.

I love detective novels, especially Japanese ones. If you know a good one please let me know.