Principal Investigator
Prof. Youngcheol Chae (채영철 교수)
Brief Bio
Youngcheol Chae is a professor of electrical and electronic engineering at Yonsei University and the CEO of XO Semiconductor, Inc., Seoul, Korea.
He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Yonsei University in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. During his Ph. D. studies, he advanced oversampling ADCs through innovative design techniques including inverter-based amplifiers, which have been adopted today for many low-power data converters. From 2009 to 2011, as a post-doctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, he developed high-precision sensors and interface ICs.
After joining Yonsei University in 2012, he led a Yonsei Mixed-Signal IC group, focusing on innovative analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems for communication, sensing, and biomedical applications. This has resulted in 150+ peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and holds 50+ patents. Especially, his research team reported 60+ State-of-The-Art Chips in JSSC, ISSCC, and Symposium on VLSI Circuits.
Dr. Chae has been serving as a TPC member of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), and Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). He was a distinguished lecturer (DL) of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). He received the ISSCC 2021 Takuo Sugano Award for Outstanding Far-East Paper, the Best Young Professor Award in Engineering from Yonsei University in 2018, the Haedong Young Engineer Award from the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE) Korea in 2017, the ISSCC Silkroad Award in 2017, the Outstanding Research Award of Yonsei University (2017, 2019, and 2020), and the Outstanding Teaching Awards of Yonsei University (2013, 2014). Currently, he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L).
Research Profile
Citations: 5500+, h-index: 37 (as of 2025)
Career
Assistant / Associate / Full Professor, Yonsei Univ, Seoul, Korea, 2012/2017/2022 - present.
CEO, XO Semiconductor Inc. Korea, 2024-Present.
Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University, CA, USA, 2019.
Postdoc Researcher, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, 2009-2011.
Professional Activities
[6] Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2024-Present.
[5] Associate Editor, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), 2024 - present.
[4] TPC member, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2022 - Present.
[3] TPC member, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2018 - 2022.
[2] TPC member, IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2015 - 2022.
[1] Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), 2018-2019.
Honors and Awards
[7] 2025, Yonsei Startup Award, Awarded by Yonsei University.
[6] 2022, ISSCC 2021 Takuo Sugano Award for Outstanding Far-East Paper.
[5] 2017/2019/2020, Outstanding Research Award, Awarded by Yonsei University.
[4] 2018, Best Young Professor Award in Eng. School, Awarded by Yonsei University.
[3] 2017, Haedong Young Engineer Award, Awarded by IEIE Korea.
[2] 2017, ISSCC 2017 Silkroad Award.
[1] 2013/2014, Outstanding Teaching Award, Awarded by Yonsei University.
Co-PI
Prof. Yong Lim (임용 교수)
Research Professor
Brief Bio
Yong Lim is a research professor at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2004 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2017.
From 2006 to February 2025, he worked at Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong-si, South Korea, where he focused on developing CMOS image sensor readout circuits and data converters for SoCs and mixed-signal ICs.
Dr. Lim was a recipient of the ISSCC 2022 Anantha P. Chandrakasan Award for Outstanding Distinguished Technical Paper and the 2023 IEEE Brokaw Award for Circuit Elegance. He served on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference from 2020 to 2023 and currently serves on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.
Research Profile
Professional Activities
[2] TPC member, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2024 - Present.
[1] TPC member, IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2020 - 2023.
Honors and Awards
[2] 2023, IEEE Brokaw Award for Circuit Elegance.
[1] 2022, ISSCC 2022 Anantha P. Chandrakasan Award for Outstanding Distinguished Technical Paper.