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).