Jooyoung Bae Ph.D. 2022 - (UCSB), Graduated PhD Student #5

Employment

Assistant Professor, School of Semiconductor Systems Engineering, Kwangwoon University, South Korea, 2026- (Current)

Awards & Honors

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award, 2024-2025

Invitation to JSSC Special Issue based on her presentation at IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2023

Publications

1. [ISSCC'26] Y. Wu, J. Bae, S. Shin, and B. Kim, "COBI: A Degree-of-56 Column-Bipartite Densely Connected Digital Ising Chip with 8b Spin Coefficients," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2026

2. [VLSI'25] Y. Wu, J. Bae, C. Shim, and B. Kim, "m-Zephyr: A Digital In-Memory Ising Chip with 240 Spins Featuring Enhanced Connectivity Based on a Modified 3D Zephyr Topology," Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, Jun. 2025 [PAPER] 

3. [CPAD'24] H. Kim, J. Bae, R. Bartoldus, A. Dragone, B. Kim, L. Rota, and A. Schwartzman, "Tackling Particle Tracking Problems Using CMOS-based Simulated Ising Machines," Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors Workshop, Nov. 2024

4. [ISSCC'24] C. Shim, J. Bae, and B. Kim, “VIP-Sat: A Boolean Satisfiability Solver Featuring 5x12 Variable In-Memory Processing Elements with 98% Solvability for 50 Variables 218 Clauses 3-SAT Problems,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2024  [PAPER]

5. [ISSCC'24] J. Bae, C. Shim, and B. Kim, “e-Chimera: A Scalable SRAM-based Ising Macro with Enhanced Chimera Topology for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems Within Memory,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2024 [PAPER]

6. [ISSCC'24] J. Bae*, J. Koo*, C. Shim*, and B. Kim, “LISA: A 576x4 All-in-One Replica Spins Continuous-Time Latch-based Ising Computer Using Massively Parallel Random Number Generations and Replica Equalizations,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2024 (*equal contribution) [PAPER]

7. [JSSC'24] J. Bae*, W. Oh*, J. Koo, C. Yu, and B. Kim, "CTLE-Ising: A Continuous-Time Latch-Based Ising Machine Featuring One-Shot Fully-Parallel Spin Updates and Equalization of Spin States," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Jan. 2024 (*equal contribution) [Invited: ISSCC 2023 Special Issue] [PAPER]

8. [ISSCC'23] J. Bae*, W. Oh*, J. Koo, and B. Kim, "CTLE-Ising: A 1,440 Spins Continuous-Time Latch-based Ising Machine with One-Shot Fully-Parallel Spin Updates Featuring Equalization of Spin States," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2023 (*equal contribution) [Invited to JSSC Special Issue] [PAPER]