Professor

CAREER

Associate Professor (March 2024 ~ present)
School of Semiconductor Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Korea

Assistant Professor (March 2020 ~ Feb. 2024)
School of Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Korea

Postdoc research fellow (Jan. 2018 ~ Jan. 2020)
Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy 

Postdoc research fellow (Feb. 2017 ~ Dec. 2017)
School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea. 

RECENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Energy-harvesting patchable sensing system design
- System on chip (SoC) design
- Energy harvesting and application system design

Energy-efficient e-mobility system design
- Battery-aware delivery drone flight optimization
- Electric vehicle design time and runtime optimization

Microcontroller unit (MCU) Design for low-power edge computing
- AMBA  architecture  design
- MCU design for communication data reduction

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES 

Services

Technical Program Committee Member, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2023 and 2024.

Topic Editor, MDPI Electronics, 2021.

Student Research Forum Committee Member,  Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2020 and 2021.

Information Director, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), June 2014 to 2020.

Awards

Design Contest Award (honorable mention), A Reconfigurable Building Block for Thermoelectric Generator Energy Harvesting under Spatial Temperature Variations, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2017.

Best University Demonstration Award (honorable mention), A Reconfigurable Building Block for Thermoelectric Generator Energy Harvesting under Spatial Temperature Variations, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2017.

PUBLICATIONS (Journals)

[J-23-03] Young Hoo Cho, Donkyu Baek, Yukai Chen, Min Jae Jung, Sara Vinco, Enrico Macii, and Massimo Poncino, “Multi-Criteria Coordinated Electric Vehicle-Drone Hybrid Delivery Service Planning,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 72, No. 5, 2023. (Top 8% in Transportation science and technology)

[J-23-02] Donkyu Baek and Hyung Gyu Lee, “On‐Chip Energy Harvesting System with Storage‐Less MPPT for IoTs,” Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Vol. 18, 2023. 

[J-23-01] Min Jae Jung, Jaemin Kim, Sang-Gug Lee, and Donkyu Baek, “Energy-efficient driving scheduling for heterogeneous electric vehicles with consideration of overtaking,” Elsevier Energy Report, Vol. 9, 2348-2358, 2023.

[J-22-02] Seonhoon Lee, Dooyoung Hong, Jaemin Kim, Donkyu Baek, and Naehyuck Chang, “Congestion-Aware Multi-Drone Delivery Routing Framework,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 71, No. 9, September, 2022. (Top 8% in Transportation science and technology)

[J-22-01] Donkyu Baek, Albero Bocca, and Alberto Macii, “A cost of ownership analysis of batteries in all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles,” Springer Energy, Ecology and Environment, Vol. 7, 604–613, 2022. 

[J-21-01] Dooyoung Hong, Seonhoon Lee, Young Hoo Cho, Donkyu Baek, Jaemin Kim, and Naehyuck Chang, “Energy-Efficient Online Path Planning of Multiple Drones Using Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 70, No. 10, October, 2021. (Top 8% in Transportation science and technology)

[J-20-04] Dooyoung Hong, Seonhoon Lee, Young Hoo Cho, Donkyu Baek, Jaemin Kim, and Naehyuck Chang, “Least-Energy Path Planning With Building Accurate Power Consumption Model of Rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 69, No. 12, December, 2020. (Top 8% in Transportation science and technology)

[J-20-03] Yukai Chen, Sara Vinco, Donkyu Baek, Stefano Quer, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino, “Cost-aware Design and Simulation of Electrical Energy Systems,” Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Energies, Vol. 13, No. 11, June, 2020.

[J-20-02] Donkyu Baek, Yukai Chen, Naehyuck Chang, Enrico Macii, and Massimo Poncino, “Battery-Aware Electric Truck Delivery Route Exploration,” Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Energies, Vol. 13, No. 8, April, 2020.

[J-20-01] Donkyu Baek, Yukai Chen, Naehyuck Chang, Enrico Macii, and Massimo Poncino, “Optimal Battery Sizing for Electric Truck Delivery,” Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Energies, Vol. 13, No. 3, Feb., 2020.

[J-19-06] Donkyu Baek, Yukai Chen, Alberto Bocca, Lorenzo Bottaccioli, Santa Di Cataldo, Valentina Gatteschi, Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Edoardo Patti, Gianvito Urgese, Naehyuck Chang, Alberto Macii, Enrico Macii, Paolo Montuschi, and Massimo Poncino, “Battery-Aware Operation Range Estimation for Terrestrial and Aerial Electric Vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 68, No. 6, pp. 5471-5482, June, 2019. (Top 8% in Transportation science and technology)

[J-19-05] Donkyu Baek and Naehyuck Chang, “Runtime Power Management of Battery Electric Vehicles for Extended Range with Consideration of Driving Time,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (TVLSI), Vol 27, No 3, pp. 549-559, March, 2019.

[J-19-04] Donkyu Baek, Hyung Gyu Lee and Naehyuck Chang, “SmartPatch: A Self-Powered and Patchable Cumulative UV Irradiance Meter,” IEEE Design and Test, Vol. 36, Issue 1, pp. 57-64, Feb., 2019.

[J-19-03] Donkyu Baek, Jaemin Kim and Naehyuck Chang, “Build Your Own EV: A Rapid Energy-Aware Synthesis of Electric Vehicles,” IEEE Design and Test, Vol. 36, Issue 1, pp. 40-47, Feb., 2019.

[J-19-02] Yukai Chen, Donkyu Baek, Jaemin Kim, Santa Di Cataldo, Naehyuck Chang, Enrico Macii, Sara Vinco, and Massimo Poncino, “A SystemC-AMS Framework for the Design and Simulation of Energy Management in Electric Vehicles,” IEEE Access, Vol 7, pp. 25779-25791, Feb., 2019. 

[J-19-01] Jaemin Kim, Donghwa Shin, Donkyu Baek and Jaehyun Park, “Design and Optimization of Supercapacitor Hybrid Architecture for Power Supply-Connected Batteries Lifetime Enhancement,” Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Electronics, Vol 8, No 1, Jan., 2019.

[J-18-02] Naehyuck Chang, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, Zili Shao, Chun Jason Xue, Yiran Chen, and Donkyu Baek, “Survey of Low-Power Electric Vehicles: A Design Automation Perspective,” IEEE Design and Test, Vol. 35, Issue 6, pp. 44-70, Dec., 2018.

[J-18-01] Jaemin Kim, Donkyu Baek, Caiwen Ding, Sheng Lin, Dongwha Shin, Xue Lin, Yanzhi Wang, Young Hoo Cho, Sang Hyun Park, and Naehyuck Chang, “Dynamic Reconfiguration of Thermoelectric Generators for Vehicle Radiators Energy Harvesting under Location-Dependent Temperature Variations,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (TVLSI), Vol. 26, Issue 7, pp. 1241-1253, July, 2018.

[J-17-01] Donkyu Baek, Naehyuck Chang and Donghwa Shin, “Compressed On-Chip Framebuffer Cache for Low-Power Display Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (TVLSI), Vol. 25, Issue 4, pp. 1215-1223, April, 2017.

[J-14-01] Youngsoo Shin, Insup Shin, Donkyu Baek, Duckhwan Kim, and Seungwhun Paik, ”HAPL: Heterogeneous Array of Programmable Logic Using Selective Mask Patterning,” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 146-159, 2014.

[J-13-01] Donkyu Baek, Insup Shin, and Youngsoo Shin, "Accurate Gate Delay Extraction for Timing Analysis of Body-biased Circuits," Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 22, No. 8, 2013.

PUBLICATIONS (Conference proceedings)

[C-20-02] Donkyu Baek, Yukai Chen, Naehyuck Chang, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino, “'Energy-Efficient Coordinated Electric Truck-Drone Hybrid Delivery Service Planning,” in Proceedings of AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT Automotive), November, 2020.

[C-20-01] Alberto Bocca and Donkyu Baek, “'Optimal Life-Cycle Costs of Batteries for Different Electric Cars,” in Proceedings of AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT Automotive), November, 2020.

[C-19-03] Alberto Bocca and Donkyu Baek, “Automated Driving Systems: Key Advantages, Limitations and Risks,” in Proceedings of AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT Automotive), July, 2019.

[C-19-02] Donkyu Baek, Yukai Chen, Alberto Bocca, Santa Di Cataldo, and Naehyuck Chang, “Estimation of the Residual Energy in Battery Electric Vehicles,” in Proceedings of AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT Automotive), July, 2019.

[C-19-01] Donkyu Baek, Yukai Chen, Naehyuck Chang, Enrico Macii, and Massimo Poncino, “Battery-Aware Electric Truck Delivery Route Planner,” in Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 29-31, July, 2019.

[C-18-04] Donkyu Baek, Yukai Chen, Jaemin Kim, Sara Vinco, Naehyuck Chang, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino, “SystemC-AMS Simulation of Energy Management of Electric Vehicles,” in Proceedings of International Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC), 2018.

[C-18-03] Yukai Chen, Donkyu Baek, Alberto Bocca, Alberto Macii, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino, “A Case for a Battery-Aware Model of Drones Energy Consumption,” in Proceedings of International Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC), 2018.

[C-18-02] Donkyu Baek, Alberto Bocca, Yukai Chen, Alberto Macii, Enrico Macii and Massimo Poncino, "Battery-Aware Energy Model of Drone Delivery Tasks," in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 23-25, July, 2018.

[C-18-01] Hanchen Yang, Feiyang Kang, Caiwen Ding, Ji Li, Jaemin Kim, Donkyu Baek, Shahin Nazarian, Xue Lin, Paul Bogdan, and Naehyuck Chang, “Prediction-Based Fast Thermoelectric Generator Reconfiguration for Energy Harvesting from Vehicle Radiators,” in Proceedings of IEEE Design and Test in Europe (DATE), 19-23, March, 2018.

[C-17-01] Donkyu Baek, Caiwen Ding, Sheng Lin, Donghwa Shin, Jaemin Kim, Xue Lin, and Naehyuck Chang, "Reconfigurable Thermoelectric Generators for Vehicle Radiators Energy Harvesting," in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 24-26, July, 2017.

[C-16-01] Donkyu Baek, Joonki Hong and Naehyuck Chang, "Minimum-Energy Driving Speed Profiles for Low-Speed Electric Vehicles," in Proceedings of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Jan., 2016.

[C-15-01] Qing Xie, Younghyun Kim, Donkyu Baek, Yanzhi Wang, Massoud Pedram, and Naehyuck Chang, "Efficiency-driven design time optimization of a hybrid energy storage system with networked charge transfer interconnect," in Proceedings of Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2015.

[C-14-02] Naehyuck Chang, Donkyu Baek and Jeongmin Hong, "Power Consumption Characterization, Modeling and Estimation of Electric Vehicles," in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2014.

[C-14-01] Jaemin Kim, Donkyu Baek, Jeongmin Hong and Naehyuck Chang, "Partially Solar Powered Full Electric Vehicles," in Proceedings of Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug., 2014.

[C-13-01] Yongsoo Ahn, Donkyu Baek, Dongsoo Lee, and Youngsoo Shin, "Pulsed-Vdd: Synchronous Circuits Design without Clock Network," in Proceedings of International Soc Design Conference (ISOCC), Nov., 2013.

[C-12-02] Insup Shin, Donkyu Baek, and Youngsoo Shin, "Introducing Irregularity to Routing Architecture of Structured ASIC for Better Routability," in Proceedings of International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), Dec., 2012.

[C-12-01] Donkyu Baek, Insup Shin, and Youngsoo Shin, "Gate Delay Modeling for Static Timing Analysis of Body-biased Circuits," in Proceedings of International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT), May, 2012.

[C-11-01] Donkyu Baek, Insup Shin, Seungwhun Paik, and Youngsoo Shin, "Selectively Patterned Masks: Structured ASIC with Asymptotically ASIC Performance," in Proceedings of Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)," Jan., 2011.

[C-10-01] Donkyu Baek, Insup Shin, Seungwhun Paik, and Youngsoo Shin, "Selectively Patterned Masks: beyond Structured ASIC," in Proceedings of International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)," Nov., 2010.