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	        <h1 class="profile-name">YONGJOO PARK</h1>

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	        <span class="profile-position">Assistant Professor, <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/">Illinois CS (UIUC)</a></span>
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	        <span class="profile-position">Co-founder / Chief Scientist,
	        <a href="https://keebo.ai">Keebo</a></span>
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	        	<span class="profile-email" style="vertical-align: middle;">yongjoo@keebo.ai</span>
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	        <p><a href="/resources/Yongjoo_CV_2023_02.pdf">[CV]</a>
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        	<a href="/publication">[Publication]</a>
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			<a href="https://createlab.cs.illinois.edu/">[CreateLab]</a>
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			<a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3786-6214">[orcid]</a>
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	        <p><b>Current Research</b> &nbsp; I build systems for machine learning.
            First, I investigate efficient LLM inference with a focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
            Second, I create undoable AI environment (e.g., Jupyter) with a novel checkpointing framework.</p>
			<p>At <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/">IllinoisCS</a>,
					I am a member of <a href="https://dais.cs.illinois.edu/">DAIS</a>.
				You can join <a href="https://join.slack.com/t/uiuc-dais/signup">DAIS Slack Workspace</a>
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		<!-- <p>I wrote <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/10sa5uj/avoid_using_illinoisedu_email_for_important/">this Reddit post</a> regarding the university email issue. </p> -->
        <p><b>News (Jun 2024)</b> &nbsp; Billy presents the "ElasticNotebook" demo at SIGMOD'24. 
                Billy will also present the research paper at VLDB'24.</p>
        <p><b>News (May 2024)</b> &nbsp; The DeepOLA team receives SIGMOD'23 Best Artifact Award Honorable Mention!</p>
		<p><b>News (Sep 2023)</b> &nbsp; "ElasticNotebook" is accepted to PVLDB'23 (or VLDB'24). Congrats Billy!</p>
		<p><b>News (June 2023)</b> &nbsp; Awarded <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2312561&HistoricalAwards=false">$1.2M NSF grant</a> 
            with <a href="http://sundaram.cs.illinois.edu/">Hari</a> for "system + causal inference"!</p>
        <!-- <p><b>News (May 2023)</b> &nbsp; "AirIndex" is accepted to <a href="https://2024.sigmod.org/">SIGMOD 2024</a>. Congrats Supawit!</p>
		<p><b>News (April 2023)</b> &nbsp; "Transactional Python" is accepted to <a href="http://deem-workshop.org//">DEEM @SIGMOD 2023</a>. Congrats Supawit and Billy!</p>
		<p><b>News (Feb 2023)</b> &nbsp; "DeepOLA" is accepted to <a href="https://2023.sigmod.org/">SIGMOD 2023</a>. Congrats Nikhil and Supawit!</p>
		<p><b>News (Feb 2023)</b> &nbsp; Billy's work "S/C" is accepted to <a href="https://icde2023.ics.uci.edu/research-papers-track/">ICDE 2023</a>.</p>
		<p><b>News (Feb 2023)</b> &nbsp; Awarded <a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/about/fellowships-internships/ncsa-fellows-program/">NCSA Fellowship</a>. Thank you so much!</p>
		<p><b>News (Oct 2022)</b> &nbsp; Keebo raises $10.5M for Series A; total funding is $15M!
		    &nbsp; <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/keebo-raises-15-million-launches-automated-warehouse-optimization-to-reduce-cloud-data-warehousing-costs-301654278.html">
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		    &nbsp; <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/news/successful-startup-provides-park-with-a-perspective-on-balancing-academic-research-with-entrepreneurial-energy">
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