Member

Youngjoo Lee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor,

Department of Electrical Engineering,

Department of Semiconductor Engineering,

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

Contact Information

• Address: #333, Science Building II, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

• Email: youngjoo.lee[at]postech.ac.kr

• Office: +82-(0)54-279-2369

Educational Backgrounds

• [2010/03~2014/02] Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• [2008/03~2010/02] M.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• [2003/03~2008/02] B.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Professional Experiences

• [2023/02~Present] Associate Professor, Dept. Semiconductor Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

• [2021/03~Present] Associate Professor, Dept. Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

• [2017/02~2021/02] Assistant Professor, Dept. Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

• [2015/03~2017/02] Assistant Professor, Dept. Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea

• [2014/05~2015/02] Researcher, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

• [2008/03~2014/04] Research Assistant, Dept. Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

• [2008/03~2014/02] Teaching Assistant, Dept. Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Professional Activities

• Academic Memberships 

  • Senior Member of IEEE

    • IEEE CASS Daegu Chapter (TC member of VSA and CASCOM)

    • IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter

  • Member of IEIE

    • Cooperative director, 2016~2019

  • Member of ISE

• Organizing Committee

  • IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2021

  • IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2019, 2022

  • IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems (ISICAS), 2023

  • IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2018

  • International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2016~2023

  • Korean Conference on Semiconductor (KCS), 2024

• Technical Program Committee

  • IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), 2022~2024

  • IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2019~2023

  • ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2020, 2022~2024

  • IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), 2019

  • IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2016

  • International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2016~2022

  • Korean Conference on Semiconductor (KCS), 2016~2024

Selected Awards & Honors

• Best Teacher Award, POSTECH EE, 2022

• 우수참여교수상, IDEC, 2021

• 해동 산학최우수논문상, 전자공학회, 2020

• Distinguished Design Award, IEEE A-SSCC, 2019

• Kim Choong-Ki Award, KAIST EE, 2011

Lectures

• EECE199: Freshman Research Participation (23F, 22F, 21F)

• EECE276: Electronic and Electrical Engineering Lab I (23F, 22F, 21F, 20F, 19F)

• EECE338: Electronic and Electrical Engineering Lab II (24S, 22S, 21S, 20F)

• EECE372/4: Microprocessor Architecture & Applications (23S, 22S, 21S, 20S, 19S)

• EECE392: Seminars on Electronics (23F, 22F, 21F) 

• EECE455: Embedded SoC Designs (23F, 22F, 19F, 18F, 17S)

• EECE550: Advanced Computer Design (24S, 22S, 21S, 19S, 18S)

• EECE695E: VLSI Signal Processing (23F, 20F, 18F, 17F)

• EECE695J: Convergence Designs for Biomedical System Semiconductors (23F, 22F, 21F, 20F)

• EECE695C: Advanced Convergence Designs for Biomedical System Semiconductors (23F, 22F, 21S)

Invited Talks

• 2023/09/22: "Energy-efficient transformer acceleration with structured sparsity," 대한전자공학회 제23회 RF/아날로그 회로 워크샵

• 2023/08/24: "반도체? 시스템 반도체? 인공지능 반도체?" 한국연구재단 금요일에 과학터치

• 2023/08/17: "Advanced digital SoC designs for emerging B5G/6G systems," KAIST

• 2023/05/30: "생성 AI모델 경량화와 가속 시스템 최적화," 반도체공학회 ChatGPT와 인공지능반도체의 미래기술 워크샵

• 2023/05/13: "반도체가 바꾸는 당신의 미래," 대전과학고등학교 특강

• 2023/04/24: "How to accelerate pruned-ML models?" IEEE CASS Shikoku Workshop on Circuits and Systems

• 2023/04/21: "Algorithm-hardware co-optimization approaches for application-specific embedded SoC designs," SAIT

• 2022/12/22: "Cost-efficient ECC decoder designs for next-generation URLLC systems," IEEE CASS Japan-Korea Membership Development Workshop at Osaka

• 2022/12/16: "Cost-efficient data acquisition and processing with application-specific on-device ML operations," POSTECH IME Seminar

• 2022/12/02: "On-device AI? The Next WAVE?" POSTECH TechReview

• 2022/10/05: "AI+X? X+AI? 새로운 가치창출을 위한 AI 융복합 솔루션," 전남대학교

• 2022/09/30: "Biomedical AI: New Opportunity?" 경희대학교

• 2022/01/26: "Complexity-latency tradeoff for 5G SCL polar decoder architecture," 제 29회 한국반도체학술대회

• 2021/12/01: "Hardware-friendly DNN architecture for on-device AI processing," 공주대학교

• 2021/10/15: "DNN model compression for on-device AI processing," 한국전기전자학회 차세대 지능형 컴퓨팅 시스템 설계 기술강좌

• 2021/08/24: "How is the sport industry evolving with digital transformation?" APRU Virtual Student Exchange Program

• 2021/06/11: "Edge-level AI를 위한 알고리즘-하드웨어 융합 최적화," 한국정보처리학회 2021 IT21 글로벌컨퍼런스

• 2020/11/20: "HW/SW co-optimization methods for on-device AI processing," 금오공과대학교

• 2020/08/27: "Optimization methods for on-device AI processing," DGIST

• 2020/01/08: "Memory-reduced CNN architecture for edge-level devices," SNU NPRC Seminar

• 2019/07/20: "Design challenges for edge-level CNN accelerator," IEEE CEDA Seoul/Korea Chapter EDA Summer Workshop 2019

• 2019/04/15: "자율 정확도 스케일링을 통한 고효율 모바일 딥러닝 시스템," DGIST

• 2018/12/07: "SW/HW co-optimizations for next-generation intelligent embedded systems," 고려대학교

• 2018/09/14: "모바일 인공신경망을 위한 메모리 시스템 최적화," 한국정보과학회 제36회 미래 정보 기술/산업 전망 (iTIP 2018)

• 2018/06/11: "모바일 시스템을 위한 딥러닝 알고리즘의 최적화," 아주대학교

• 2018/05/23: "모바일 환경의 인공지능 솔루션을 위한 메모리 시스템 최적화," 대한전자공학회 데이터중심 컴퓨팅: Processor, Memory, and Storage 통합 컴퓨팅 기술 워크샵

• 2017/07/28: "What will be the NEXT SoC platform?" Samsung Electronics

• 2017/07/20: "모바일 스토리지를 위한 hard-decision 기반 ECC decoder 최적화," 대한전자공학회 오류정정부호기술 워크샵

• 2017/04/29: "Energy-efficient ECC solutions for healthy NAND flash memories," IEEE CASS Korean Workshop on Circuits and Systems

• 2016/08/12: "Digital baseband architectures," KAIST

• 2016/05/20: "ISSCC 2016 review: General purpose digital architectures," IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter

• 2015/12/03: "Low-complexity energy-scalable LDPC decoder for storage applications," 대한전자공학회 오류정정 및 보안기술 워크샵

• 2015/11/04: "Hardware optimizations of hard-decision ECC decoders for MLC NAND flash memories," IEEE International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC)

• 2015/09/15: "Linear feedback shift register의 병렬처리 기법," 한국철도기술연구원