Ki-teak Lee

Profile

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, supervised by Professor Hakan. My research interests lie in transaction processing, storage engine and large-scale vector search.

Education & Background

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK (2025 - present)
• M.S in Computer Science, Hanyang University (2020-2023)
• B.S in Computer Science, Hanyang University (2018-2020)
• Software Engineer (Cloud Systems), NHN Cloud (2025)
• Undergraduate Intern, in Hanyang University (2019-2020)

Publication

Deploying Computational Storage for HTAP DBMSs Takes More Than Just Computation Offloading Kitaek Lee, Jaechan Ahn, Insoon Jo, Hyuk Lee, Hwang Lee, Woong Sul, Hyungsoo Jung VLDB Endowment Inc. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB’23)

Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing Amplifies IO in LSM-trees Jongbin Kim, Jaechan Ahn, Kitaek Lee, Hyungsoo Jung Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Access (IEEE ACCESS’22)

Teaching Experience

Database Systems
Teaching Assistant for database systems courses, including Advanced Database Systems at the University of Warwick (2025–2026),

Database Management Systems at Hanyang University (2021-2022),

and an industry-oriented Database Systems training programme at a Samsung-affiliated learning centre (2022-2023).

Systems and Networks
Teaching Assistant for system courses, including Operating Systems and Networks at the University of Warwick (2025-2026) and

Operating Systems (2021-2022) at Hanyang University, supporting coursework on operating system fundamentals and computer networking.

Programming and Concurrency
Teaching Assistant and Lab Assistant for courses including Programming for Scientists at the University of Warwick (2025-2026) and

Concurrent Programming at Hanyang University (2022), assisting with practical sessions on programming fundamentals, parallelism, and concurrency.

Conferences

VLDB 2023, Vancouver, Canada - Presented a paper in a poster session.

FAST 2020, Santa Clara, CA, USA - Attendee.