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

Battery Modeling and Optimization
- Parameter identification of the electrochemical model of Lithium-ion battery
- Optimal battery charging methodology without lithium plating phenomenon

Neural Network Architecture Design for low-power system
- DNN architecture  design for attachable system
- High-level synthesis of CNN architecture for mobile devices

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

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES 

Services

Technical Program Committee Member
- Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025
- Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025
- International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) 2023, 2024 and 2025
- International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) 2024 and 2025

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.