Bongjin Kim, PhD 

E-mail: bongjin (AT) kaist.ac.kr / Office: E3-2, Room 5228 / Tel: +82-42-350-7479 / 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 for 3 years (from 2017 to 2020) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and 4 years (from 2021 to 2024) at the University of California Santa Barbara in California, he joined Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and is now an Associate Professor at School of Electrical Engineering and Department of Semiconductor System Engineering in Jan. 2025.

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 65+ peer-reviewed major conferences and journals, including the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), European Solid-State Electronics Conference (ESSERC), and Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). He currently serves as a technical program committee (TPC) member of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), European Solid-State Electronics Conference (ESSERC), Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), and a student research preview (SRP) committee member of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He was a previous TPC member of the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) and the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC). He served as a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) and is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letter (SSC-L).

• Associate Professor, EE/SSE, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, Jan. 2025-

• Assistant Professor, ECE, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Jan. 2021-Dec.2024

• 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 Letters (SSC-L), 2024-

• Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Memory (MEM) Subcommittee, 2026-

• Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), Digital Circuits and Systems (DCS) Subcommittee, 2025-

• 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 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Digital Circuits, SoCs, and Systems Track, 2022-

• Organizing Committee (OC) of IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2025

• Student Research Preview (SRP) Committee of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 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