Yunheung Paek earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University. Then, he entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where he received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. In the spring of 2003, he joined SNU as an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering. Before he came to SNU, he had been in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) as an associate professor for one year and an assistant professor for two and a half years. He has served on the program committees and organizing committees for numerous conferences, and also worked for editors for various journals and transactions. His current research interests are embedded software, embedded system development tools, retargetable compilers, and MPSoC.