Education

Aug. 2023 ~ Present

Cornell Tech, New York, NY, USA

• Ph.D student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Advisor: Prof. Jae-sun Seo

  • Research Interest: 3D IC Design, Energy-efficient AI Accelerator Design

Mar. 2016 ~ Feb. 2020

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering

  • GPA: 4.05/4.3 (Summa Cum Laude)

  • Minor: Computer Science and Engineering

Research & Work Experiences

Aug. 2023 ~ Present

Seo Research Group, Cornell Tech, NY

• Graduate Research Assistant

• Advisor: Prof. Jae-sun Seo

• Projects:

  1. Novel 3D IC Design Exploration

     • 3D IC architecture research using in-house high-level energy/area simulator. Energy comparison between 2D and 3D architectures with systolic arrays and digital compute-in-memory.

  2. Hardware Sustainability

     • Analysis on carbon footprint of 3D IC architecture.

  3. Heterogeneous Integration

     • Modular integration using 2.5D chiplet design scheme.

May. 2024 ~ Aug. 2024

SK Hynix America, San Jose, CA

• Research Internship

• Energy evaluation of various hardware architectures

Jun. 2020 ~ May 2023

Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon, South Korea

• Research Officer for National Defense (Lieutenant) / Full-time Researcher

• Advisor: Dr. Hyunwoo Nam

• Projects:

  1. Reinforcement Learning for UAV

  2. Detection Algorithms for Remote Sensing

  3. Chemi-capacitive Sensor (US-ROK Joint Project)

  4. Toxic Cloud Atmospheric Dispersion Model (AUS-ROK Joint Project)

Jun. 2018 ~ Dec. 2019

Exploratory Device Research Lab, Ulsan, South Korea

• Advisor: Prof. Jiwon Chang

• Projects:

  1. Electronic devices for sub-5nm process using low dimensional materials

     • First-principles calculation of material and device characteristic using commercial simulator (Synopsys QuantumATK).

     • Gate-all-around field-effect-transistor (GAA-FET) using 1D Tellurium nanowire and carbon nanotube.

Mar. 2019 ~ Jun. 2019

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program @ UNIST

• Advisor: Prof. Sung-Phil Kim

• Projects:

  1. Silent speech interface

     • Discrimination of vowels from human brain waves without speaking out loud.

     • Classification done based on convolutional neural network whose learning data are time-frequency representation of filtered electroencephalogram (EEG) signals.

Award & Honors

1. Summa Cum Laude [Feb. 2020]

• Ranked 2/50 (EE major), 10/394 (Class of 2020)

2. UNIST Chairman of the Board Award [Feb. 2020]

• Given to the one selected students based on the academic performances and extracurricular activities upon commencement ceremony.

3. Best Poster Award, SRC CoCoSys Annual Review [Mar. 2024]

• For poster presentation of 3D IC evaluation tool. 

Scholarships & Student Grants

1. UNIST Scholarship [2016 - 2017]

2. Teaching Assistant Scholarship [2017 - 2019]

3. Korea National Scholarship of Excellence (Science and Engineering) [2018 - 2019]

4. Irwin Jacobs Fellowship in the School of ECE, Cornell University [Fall 2023]

5. Young Student Fellow, DAC'24 [Jun. 2024]

6. Student Travel Grant Award for ISSCC 2025, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society [Feb. 2025]

Teaching Experiences

1. PHY101 General Physics I [Spring 2017; Spring 2019]

2. PHY102 General Physics II [Fall 2018; Fall 2019]

3. AHS286 Science and Technology Policy [Spring 2018]

4. Voluntary Open Lecture for Freshmen [2017 - 2019]