Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Notice — PASS Lab. was formerly the Embedded Software Engineering (ESE) Laboratory. In March 2027 the department is renamed the Department of AI Robotics; until then it remains the Department of Information and Communications Engineering.

Our most recent major research findings are listed here. Previous research results can be found on DBLP. An asterisk marks the corresponding author.

2026

  • Wooin Choi, Haejun Lee, Jinho Kim, and Saehwa Kim*, “MCKube: a holistic mixed-criticality orchestration system in Kubernetes,” Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 178, art. 103904, 2026. doi:10.1016/j.sysarc.2026.103904
  • Namcheol Lee, Woobean Seo, Seongsoo Hong, and Saehwa Kim, “A Protocol-Agnostic and Automated Approach to Bi-directional Inter-Domain Communication in Software-Defined Vehicles,” International Journal of Automotive Technology, vol. 27, pp. 1547–1558, January 2026. doi:10.1007/s12239-025-00375-w
  • Taegyu Ko, Haejun Lee, Yongseop Shin, Jinsu Jeon, and Saehwa Kim*, “Design and Implementation of a Cloud-Native Virtual Machine Management System Based on KubeVirt,” Journal of Information Industrial Engineering, 2026. (in Korean)
  • Saehwa Kim, “Myths and Realities of On-Device AI on Heterogeneous SoCs,” Journal of Information Industrial Engineering, 2026. (in Korean)

2025

  • Woobean Seo, Saehwa Kim*, and Seongsoo Hong, “DNNPipe: Dynamic programming-based optimal DNN partitioning for pipelined inference on IoT networks,” Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 166, art. 103462, 2025. Open access. doi:10.1016/j.sysarc.2025.103462

2024

  • Namcheol Lee, Seongsoo Hong, and Saehwa Kim, “Dynamic Mapping of Mixed-Criticality Applications onto a Mixed-Criticality Runtime System with Probabilistic Guarantees,” in Proc. 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jersey City, NJ, USA, pp. 1466–1467, 2024. doi:10.1109/ICDCS60910.2024.00154