Bongjin Kim, PhD
E-mail: bongjin (AT) ucsb.edu / Tel: +1 805-893-4897 / Google Scholar / LinkedIn
Bongjin received PhD degree from the University of Minnesota in 2014. After PhD, He worked on design techniques and methodologies for communication circuits and microarchitectures at Rambus and Stanford University as a senior staff and a postdoctoral research fellow. After working as an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for three years (from 2017 to 2020), he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
His research team develops domain/application-specific VLSI circuits and system solutions to solve computationally intensive problems in the real world and accelerate computing and communication. Target domains and applications include, but are not limited to, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, biology, and high-energy physics.
He received the NSF CAREER Award, the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award, and the ISLPED International Low Power Design Contest Award. His research works have been published in 60+ peer-reviewed major conferences and journals, such as IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Conference (ESSERC), and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). He serves as a technical program committee (TPC) member of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Conference (ESSERC), IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), and ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC). He also served as a Guest Editor of IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) and currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letter (SSC-L).
Assistant Professor, ECE, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Jan. 2021-
Assistant Professor, EEE, NTU, Singapore, Sep. 2017 - Nov. 2020
Post-doc. Fellow, EE, Stanford U, CA, USA, Sep. 2016 - Aug. 2017
Senior Technical Staff, Rambus, CA, USA, Jan. 2015 - Aug. 2016
Research Intern, Rambus, IBM Research, TI, CA/NY/TX, USA, 2012-2014
Design Engineer, Samsung Electronics, South Korea, Aug. 2006 - May. 2010
Ph.D. in ECE, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Sep. 2010 - Dec. 2014
M.S. in EE, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea, Aug. 2004 - Jul. 2006
B.S. in EE, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea, Mar. 2000 - Jul. 2004
IEEE Senior Member
Associate Editor of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letter (SSC-L), 2024-
Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Digital Circuits, SoCs, and Systems Track, 2022-
Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (ESSERC), Emerging Computing Devices and Circuits Track, 2025-
Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2022
Technical Program Committee (TPC) of Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020-2021
Educational Session Chair of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2022
Technical Session Chair of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2023
Track Chair of IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 2022
Guest Editor of IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), Revolution of AI and Machine Learning With Processing-in-Memory: From Systems, Architectures, to Circuits, Jun. 2022
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC)
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I)
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II)
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS)
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI)
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Journal of Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits (JXCDC)
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Sensors Journal
Journal Reviewer of IEEE Micro
Journal Reviewer of Nature Communications