Professor

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea (2017)

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea (2013)

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea (2011)

• Magna Cum Laude

Kongju National University, Cheonan, South Korea

• [Sep. 2023 – Present] Associate Professor

• [Sep. 2019 – Aug. 2023] Assistant Professor

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

• [Mar. 2019 – Aug. 2019] Research Assistant Professor

• [Mar. 2018 – Feb. 2019] Postdoctoral Researcher

Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Daejeon, South Korea

• [Feb. 2017 – Feb. 2018] Senior Researcher

2025 Outstanding Lecturer Award, IC Design Education Center (IDEC)

2024 Top 1000 Reviewers

Outstanding Paper Award, 2024 KIPEE Conference, Cheonan, South Korea, Nov. 2024

2020 Electronics Outstanding Reviewer Award

Excellence Award, 2015 Research Performance Evaluation, School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST

The 1st Place, 2015 Altera FPGA Design Contest

Excellence Award, 2014 Research Performance Evaluation, School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST

Journal Editorial Boards

• Associate Editor, IDEC Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Apr. 2023 – Present

• Guest Editor, Special Issue on "VLSI Architectures for Wireless Communications and Digital Signal Processing," Electronics

Conference Committees and Chairs

• Technical Program Committee, International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2023 – 2025

• System LSI Design Subcommittee, Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), 2022 – 2026

• Session Chair, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), 2025

• Session Chair, IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2025

• Session Chair, International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2022, 2025

• Session Chair, Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), 2023

Invited Talks 

• "Recent Advances in VLSI Architectures for IDMA Systems," 2025 Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Jeongseon, South Korea, Feb. 2025

• "VLSI Signal Processing for IDMA Multiuser Detection," Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Mar. 2024

• "VLSI Architectures for Metric Sorting in List Polar Decoding," 2023 Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Jeongseon, South Korea, Feb. 2023

• "Low-Latency Multi-Touch Detector Based on Concurrent Processing of Redesigned Overlap Split and CCA," HiDeep, Jan. 2023

• "Digital Circuit Design: From Transistor to VLSI," Chungnam National University, Feb. 2022

• "Algorithms and VLSI Architectures for IDMA Multiuser Detection," 2022 Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Jeongseon, South Korea, Jan. 2022

• "Digital Circuit Design: From Transistor to VLSI," Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Nov. 2021

• "Digital Circuit Design for Multiuser Detection in 5G IDMA," Hanyang University ERICA, Apr. 2021

• "Latest Multiuser Detector Architectures for IDMA Systems," 2019 ISE Conference, Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 2019

Special Lectures

• "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Nov. 2025

• "ARM SoC Peripheral Design," Korea Institute of Human Resources Development in Science and Technology (KIRD), Aug. 2025

• "SoC Design and Implementation," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Aug. 2025

• "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Mar.–Apr. 2025

• "SoC Design and Implementation," Chungnam National University, Jan. 2025

• "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Nov. 2024

• "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Jul.–Aug. 2024

• "FPGA System Design Using Verilog HDL," Korea Institute of Human Resources Development in Science and Technology (KIRD), Jul. 2024

• "SoC Design and Implementation," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Jul. 2024

• "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Mar. 2024

• "Advanced SoC Design," Korea Institute of Human Resources Development in Science and Technology (KIRD), Aug. 2023

• "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Jul. 2023

• "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Mar. 2023

• "Basic Digital Circuit Design," Chungnam National University, Feb. 2023

• "Utilizing Verilog HDL for AI Semiconductor Design," ETRI SW-SoC Convergence Academy, Jan.–Feb. 2023

• "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification," IC Design Education Center (IDEC), Oct. 2022

• "Utilizing Verilog HDL for AI Semiconductor Design," ETRI SW-SoC Convergence Academy, Sep. 2022