MEMBER

Soonhyun Kwon

Ph.D. Student,

School of Electrical Engineering,

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Contact Information

• Address : #4219, Information & Electronics Building (E3-2), KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• Email : soonhyun[at]kaist.ac.kr (or soonhyun.epiclab[at]gmail.com)

• Office : +82-(0)42-350-7579

Educational Backgrounds

• [2024/09~Present] Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• [2024/03~2025/08] M.S. in Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

• [2020/03~2024/02] B.S. in Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

Professional Experiences

• [2025/09~Present] Research Assistant, Sch. Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• [2023/07~2025/08] Research Assistant, Dept. Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

Research Interests

• Error Correction Code (ECC) for mobile systems

• 5G Communication systems

• ASIC/FPGA Implementation

• HW/SW Co-design

Publications

• International Journal Papers

  1. Jaehee Kim, Changhyeon Kim, Sangbu Yun, Dongyun Kam, Soonhyun Kwon, Yongjune Kim, and Youngjoo Lee*, "Hybrid ordered statistics decoding of short-length BCH codes for URLLC systems: Theoretical analysis and decoder implementation," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 72, no. 11, pp. 6528-6540, Nov. 2025. (Invited)

• International Conference Proceedings 

  1. [Accepted] Sunwoo Yoo+, Dongyun Kam+, Gunho Park, Soonhyun Kwon, Dongsoo Lee, and Youngjoo Lee*, "LUT-SSM: A 99.3TFLOPS/W LUT-based state-space model accelerator using energy-efficient element-wise layer fusion and LUT-friendly weight-only quantization," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, USA, Feb. 2026.

  2. [Accepted] Sangbu Yun, Chanhee Lee, Soonhyun Kwon, Jeongtaek Chang, Zhengya Zhang, and Youngjoo Lee*, "UniC-Vision: A 14.4Gb/s 7.3pJ/b universal vision transformer OFDM channel estimation accelerator for B5G/6G AI-RAN," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, USA, Feb. 2026.

  3. Jaehee Kim, Changhyeon Kim, Sangbu Yun, Dongyun Kam, Soonhyun Kwon, Yongjune Kim, and Youngjoo Lee*, "Hybrid ordered statistics decoding of short-length BCH codes for URLLC systems: Theoretical analysis and decoder implementation," IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems (ISICAS, TCAS-I Special Issue), Qingdao, China, Oct. 2025.

  4. Junehyuk Oh, Soonhyun Kwon, Dongyun Kam, and Youngjoo Lee*, "On the hardware efficiency of short-length polarization-adjusted convolutional polar decoders," IEEE Asia Pacific Conference of Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), Busan, Korea, Oct. 2025.

Awards and Honors

• Chip Design Contest Best Poster Award, International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2025.