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Myungjun (MJ) Son

Research Engineer III

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

The Pennsylvania State University, USA
2019 - 2025

Master & Bachelor in Computer Science

Kookmin University, South Korea
2010 - 2019

Interests

  • Distributed Systems
  • HPC
  • Cloud Computing

About Theme

Career Profile

Research Engineer III at HPE Labs specializing in distributed systems and cloud computing. Published research achieves up to 55% cost reduction in cloud workloads.

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Recent News

  • [03/2026] - Promoted to Research Engineer III at HPE.
  • [03/2026] - Workshop paper accepted at CCGrid Workshop.
  • [08/2025] - Officially graduated with PhD.

Work Experience

Research Engineer III

Oct 2025 - Present
Systems Architecture Lab, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Milpitas, CA, USA

Research Associate Intern

Jun 2025 - Sep 2025
Systems Architecture Lab, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Milpitas, CA, USA

Research Associate Intern

May 2024 - Aug 2024
Systems Architecture Lab, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Milpitas, CA, USA
  • Designed and implemented a communication framework for distributed HPC systems using ZeroMQ and Mercury in C, improving data handling efficiency across nodes.

R&D Summer Intern

May 2023 - Aug 2023
Takeda Pharmaceutical, Boston, MA, USA
  • Led optimization and automation of data pipelines with the Digital Platforms team, cutting manual processing using AWS analytics tools.
  • Delivered system performance improvements resulting in a 25% reduction in operational costs via data-driven optimizations.

Publications

  • SpotFed - Cost-Efficient Federated Learning with Spot Instance Compensation
    • Myungjun Son, Woohyeon Baek, Mehrdad Mahdavi, Mahmut Kandemir
    FL-RCE 2026 Workshop on Federated Learning for Resource Constraint Environments (Co-located with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2026)
  • SpotVerse - Enhancing Workflow Efficiency with Multi-Region Spot Instances for Galaxy and Beyond
    • Myungjun Son, Gulsum Gudukbay, Mahmut Kandemir
    25th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (ACM Middleware) (Acceptance Rate - 23%)
  • A Global In-Memory Cache and Computation Tier for DAOS
    • J. Byrne, C. Crasta, ..., Myungjun Son, et al.
    The 9th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW’24 in conjunction with SC24)
  • FAAStloop - Optimizing Loop-Based Applications for Serverless Computing
    • Shruti Mohanty, Vivek M. Bhasi, Myungjun Son, Mahmut Kandemir, Chita Das
    15th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (ACM SoCC)
  • MicroBlend - An Automated Service-Blending Framework for Microservice-Based Cloud Applications
    • Myungjun Son, Shruti Mohanty, Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran, Mahmut Kandemir
    2023 IEEE 16th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) (Acceptance Rate - 21%)
  • Splice - An Automated Framework for Cost- and Performance-Aware Blending of Cloud Services
    • Myungjun Son, Shruti Mohanty, Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran, Aman Jain, Mahmut Kandemir, George Kesidis, Bhuvan Urgaonkar
    The 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID 2022) (Acceptance Rate - 24%)