About Me

Woong Shin, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working on agentic AI systems for scientific discovery and intelligent infrastructure for high-performance computing. His current focus includes AI-based systems and workflows for research automation and AI/ML-driven methods for operating exascale supercomputers like Frontier.

He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Seoul National University. His work has been recognized with Best Paper at SC21 for HPC energy efficiency research, an R&D 100 Award for the ExaDigiT digital twin framework, and Distinguished Paper at the WORKS workshop (SC25) for research on scientific workflows in the agentic AI era.

Interests
  • Agentic AI for scientific discovery
  • AI/ML systems for HPC operations
  • HPC energy efficiency and sustainable supercomputing
  • Digital twins for computing facilities
  • Operational data analytics at scale
Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MA & Ph.D. integrated)

    Seoul National University

  • B.Sc., Computer Science

    Korea University

My Research

My research focuses on making scientific computing more intelligent and more efficient.

The current thread is agentic AI for scientific discovery. I build AI-based systems and workflows that assist researchers, automate parts of the scientific process, and eventually enable autonomous experimentation. This builds on my work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where I develop intelligent systems for operating exascale supercomputers like Frontier.

Earlier work addressed HPC energy efficiency, storage systems, and operational data analytics. A common theme runs through it all: taking large, complex systems and making them work better through careful engineering and applied AI.

I collaborate with domain scientists, HPC facilities worldwide, and industry partners to translate research into working systems.

Statistics

27

Peer reviewed publications

12

Technical program committee roles

8

Invited talks and presentations

Featured Publications
The (R)evolution of Scientific Workflows in the Agentic AI Era: Towards Autonomous Science
A Global Perspective on Supercomputer Power Provisioning: Case Studies from United States and Europe
A Digital Twin Framework for Liquid-cooled Supercomputers as Demonstrated at Exascale
Navigating Exascale Operational Data Analytics: From Inundation to Insight
Towards Sustainable Post-Exascale Leadership Computing
Revealing power, energy and thermal dynamics of a 200PF pre-exascale supercomputer
A Conceptual Framework for HPC Operational Data Analytics
Global Experiences with HPC Operational Data Measurement, Collection and Analysis
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Recent Publications
Woong Shin, Karl W. Schulz, Arthur Francisco Lorenzon, Matthias Maiterth, Bruno Villasenor Alvarez, Jordà Polo, Aditya Kashi, Hao Lu, Nicholson Koukpaizan, Antigoni Georgiadou, Matthew Norman, Wael Elwasif, Michael Matheson, Feiyi Wang, Nicholas Frontiere, Sarp Oral, Thomas Beck, Bronson Messer (2025). Bridging the Gap: User-Centric Energy Monitoring for Policy-Driven Application Optimization in HPC Data Centers. SusSup @ SC25.
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Mariana Toledo Costa, Antigoni Georgiadou, James B. White III, Bruno Villasenor Alvarez, Jordà Polo, Woong Shin, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux, Bronson Messer, Arthur Francisco Lorenzon (2025). Characterizing the Impact of GPU Power Management on an Exascale System. PMBS'25 @ SC25.
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Renan Souza, Timothy Poteet, Brian Etz, Daniel Rosendo, Amal Gueroudji, Woong Shin, Prasanna Balaprakash, Rafael Ferreira Da Silva (2025). LLM Agents for Interactive Workflow Provenance: Reference Architecture and Evaluation Methodology. WORKS'25 @ SC25.
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Woong Shin, Renan Souza, Daniel Rosendo, Frédéric Suter, Feiyi Wang, Prasanna Balaprakash, Rafael Ferreira Da Silva (2025). The (R)evolution of Scientific Workflows in the Agentic AI Era: Towards Autonomous Science. WORKS'25 @ SC25.
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Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, Milad Abolhasani, Dionysios A. Antonopoulos, Laura Biven, Ryan Coffee, Ian T. Foster, Leslie Hamilton, Shantenu Jha, Theresa Mayer, Benjamin Mintz, Robert G. Moore, Salahudin Nimer, Noah Paulson, Woong Shin, Frédéric Suter, Mitra Taheri, Michela Taufer, Newell R. Washburn (2025). A Grassroots Network and Community Roadmap for Interconnected Autonomous Science Laboratories for Accelerated Discovery. WISDOM'25 @ ICPP25.
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Tapasya Patki, Barry Rountree, Torsten Wilde, Andrea Bartolini, Stephanie Brink, Esa Heiskanen, Sachin Idgunji, Matthias Maiterth, James Rogers, Ermal Rrapaj, Ralf Schneider, Woong Shin, Kathleen Shoga, Christian Simmendinger, Nicholas J Wright, Zhengji Zhao (2025). A Global Perspective on Supercomputer Power Provisioning: Case Studies from United States and Europe. ICS25.
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Wesley Brewer, Matthias Maiterth, Vineet Kumar, Rafal Wojda, Sedrick Bouknight, Jesse Hines, Woong Shin, Scott Greenwood, David Grant, Wesley Williams, Feiyi Wang (2024). A Digital Twin Framework for Liquid-cooled Supercomputers as Demonstrated at Exascale. SC24.
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Ahmad Maroof Karimi, Matthias Maiterth, Woong Shin, Naw Safrin Sattar, Hao Lu, Feiyi Wang (2024). Exploring the Frontiers of Energy Efficiency using Power Management at System Scale. SC24 Sustainble Supercomputing Workshop.
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Awards

Community recognitions

Distinguished paper award
WORKS Workshop at SC25 ∙ November 2025
Distinguished Paper at the WORKS workshop (SC25) for research on scientific workflows in the agentic AI era.
UT-Battelle Team Award for Distinguished Innovation
UT-Battelle ∙ November 2025
Team recognition for innovation in digital twin technology for exascale supercomputers through the ExaDigiT project.
R&D 100 Award
R&D World ∙ August 2025
R&D 100 Award for ExaDigiT, a digital twin framework for exascale systems developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Research accomplishment award
UT-Battelle, LLC ∙ November 2022
The Research Accomplishment Award at the 2022 UT-Battelle Awards Night which is a recognition across ORNL in the year 2022.
Best paper award
The SC Papers Committee ∙ November 2021
Selected by the SC Papers Committee as the best paper from the conference’s Technical Program in 2021.
Best paper award
The IEEE BigComp 2015 Technical Program Committee ∙ February 2015
Selected by the IEEE BigComp 2015 technical program committee as the best paper
Technology Innovation Award
TmaxSoft ∙ June 2010
Recognition from the organization given to employees who made significant technical impact in the year 2010.
Talks

Invited talks, panels, and presentations

Tools and Methods for HPC Application Performance and Energy Analysis
Data Journey Towards Insights
HPC Energy Efficiency @ Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
HPC Energy Efficiency @ OLCF
Software for sustainability – Green IT and Sustainable Computing
User Facility Support for Post-Exascale HPC Energy Efficiency
Operational Data Analytics for HPC Energy Efficiency - The Cost of Staying Afloat
Energy-Efficiency HPC in the Exascale era, What's Next?
Community and Professional Services

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC25)

  • Technical Program Proceedings Vice Chair

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC25) - Birds of a Feather on Operational Data Analytics, 2025

  • Co-organizer — “Operational Data Analytics: Mind the Gap”

International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW25), 2025

  • Program Committee Member

International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW24), 2024

  • Program Committee Member

Sustainable Supercomputing Workshop (SusSup24), 2024

  • Program Committee Member

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC24) State of Practice, 2024

  • Technical Program Committee Member

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23) - Birds of a Feather on Operational Data Analytics, 2023

  • Co-organizer, BoF discussion moderator

International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW23), 2023

  • Program Committee Member

Smoky Mountain Computational Sciences & Engineering Conference, 2023

  • Program Committee Member, Data Sponsor

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC22) - Birds of a Feather on Operational Data Analytics, 2022

  • Co-organizer, panel speaker

AI for Data Center Optimization Workshop (ADOPT 22), 2022

  • Program Committee Member

Smoky Mountain Computational Sciences & Engineering Conference, 2021

  • Program Committee Member

Energy Efficient High-Performance Computing Working Group State of Practice Workshop, 2021

  • Program Committee Member

Energy Efficient High-Performance Computing Working Group Workshop, 2020

  • Organizing Committee Member / Session Lead & Moderator - ARM Operational Experiences

Energy Efficient High-Performance Computing Working Group State of Practice Workshop, 2020

  • Program Committee Member

Cluster Computing - The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, 2019

  • Reviewer – Volume 22, Issue 2 – Special Issue - Storage System Challenges for Big Data
Professional Organizations

Energy-efficient HPC Working Group (https://eehpcwg.llnl.gov), 2019 ~ current

Operational Data Analytics Team, General member