Geunsik Lim

Principal S/W Researcher & Developer at Samsung Research (SR) since 2003

Research areas

• Embedded Systems
• Operating System
• Mobile Platform
• System Optimization
• Deep Learning
• On-Device AI

Education

• PhD: Sungkyunkwan University (2023)
• MS: Sungkyunkwan University (2014)

Background

Geunsik Lim (임근식) has been working as a software engineer to research and develop a commercial AI model at Samsung Research. Recently, he has been developing a mobile software platform’s low-level system software to strengthen consumer electronics (CE) devices’ product competitiveness. He has participated in the Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS), Linux.org.au (LCA), and IEEE conferences as a speaker and session chair to help the open-source ecosystem. Before that, he had engaged in UNIX/Linux core of advanced technology R&D work. He has worked with different kinds of system software to set up embedded devices like smartphones, tablets, digital TVs, and printers. He has been involved in a range of open-source projects, including Linux, GCC, Glibc, Android, and Tizen. He loves to use the Linux kernel and open-source software to help commercial embedded devices and solve technical problems.

• Representative Awards:
  • Long Service Award, Samsung Electronics, 2023
  • Embedded Software Industry 有功 褒賞, KEESIA, 2020
  • IEEE CE Society, VNODE, Chester Sall Award, 1st place, 2015
    
    
• Representative Achievements (as 1st author):
  • SWAM: Revisiting Swap and OOMK for Improving Application Responsiveness on Mobile Devices [MobiCom’23]
  • LightSys: Lightweight and Efficient CI System for Improving Integration Speed of Software [ICSE-SEIP’21]
  • BB: Booting booster for consumer electronics with modern OS [EuroSys’16]
  • VNODE: Virtual memory partitioning for enhancing application performance in mobile platforms [TCE’13]
    
    
• Thesis (PhD): Improving Application Latency and User Experience on Embedded Linux Systems