Awards, Grants, Honors, and Achievements
SK Hynix (DRAM PE) Research Grant (KAIST 클러스터 산학과제) 2026-
Samsung Electronics (System LSI Business) Research Grant (삼성전자 KAIST 신진산학과제) 2025-
Guest Editor (GE) of IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS) 2025
Global Top Strategic Research Group (글로벌탑 초거대계산 반도체 전략연구단) Research Grant 2025-
National Research Foundation (NRF) Basic Research Lab (기초연구실) Research Grant 2025-
Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2025-
Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2025-
C2 (Creative and Challenging) Research Project Grant (C2 연구과제) 2025
National Research Foundation (NRF) Outstanding Young Scientist (우수신진) Research Grant 2025-
Hyunsong-KAIST Research Upscaling Support Program Award (현송-카이스트 장비프로그램) 2025
Organizing Committee (OC) of IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2025
Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC) 2025-
Student Research Preview (SRP) Committee of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2025-
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award: Advisee – Jooyoung Bae 2025
Invitation to JSSC Special Issue, IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2024
National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award 2024
Associate Editor (AE) of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letter (SSCL) 2024-
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Outstanding Reviewer 2024
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Rising Star Award: Advisee – Yuqi Su 2024
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award: Advisee – Chengshuo Yu 2024
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) GRC AI Hardware Grant 2023-
Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology Development Grant Award: Advisee – Junjie Mu 2023
Invitation to SSCL Special Issue, IEEE Custom-Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2023
Invitation to JSSC Special Issue, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2023
Samsung Electronics (Memory Business) Research Grant 2022
Guest Editor (GE) of IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) 2022
Editor of a Springer Book (Processing in Memory for AI: From Circuits to Systems) 2022
Track Chair of IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2022
Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE Custom-Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2022-
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award: Advisee – Yuqi Su 2022
Best Paper Nomination & Invitation to JSSC Special Issue, IEEE Custom-Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2021
Elevated to IEEE Senior Member 2021
Competitive Research Program (CRP) Grant, National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore 2021
Research Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore 2020
Technical Program Committee (TPC) of ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2020
IEEE ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award: Advisee – Yuqi Su 2020
Samsung Electronics (Memory Business) Research Grant 2019
IEEE ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award: Advisee – Hyunjoon Kim 2019
Best Paper Nomination & Conference Highlight, IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS) 2018
Research Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore 2018
Intel/IBM/Catalyst Foundation CICC Student Award, IEEE Custom-Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2015
Best Paper Nomination & Invitation to JSSC Special Issue, IEEE Custom-Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2015
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota 2014
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Nomination 2014
ACM/IEEE ISLPED International Low-Power Design Contest Award 2013
Invitation to JSSC Special Issue, IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits 2013
Department Fellowship, University of Minnesota 2010