Bongjin Kim, PhD 

E-mail: bongjin (AT) kaist.ac.kr / Office: E3-2, Room 5228 / Tel: +82-42-350-7479 / Google Scholar / LinkedIn

Bongjin Kim received a PhD degree from the University of Minnesota in 2014. After his PhD, He worked on design techniques and methodologies for communication circuits and microarchitectures at Rambus and Stanford University as a senior staff member 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) in Jan. 2025 and is currently an Associate Professor at School of Electrical Engineering (EE), Department of AI Systems (AIS), and Department of Semiconductor System Engineering (SSE).

His research team is working on cutting-edge computing and communication integrated circuits and systems research, covering a broad spectrum of emerging topics and applications. (1) Physics-Inspired Computing with Energy-based AI Models (Ising/Boltzmann Machine/Probabilistic Computing and Applications) (2) Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators (Protein Nanostructure Prediction/Design, Physical AI, and AI/ML Formal Verification & Model Robustness) (3) Wireline Communication Circuits, Architectures, and System Design Techniques and Methodologies (4) Next-Gen Links for 2.5/3D Heterogeneous Integrations & High-Bandwidth Memories (5) Large-Scale Processing-in-Memory .

Prof. Kim is a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award, the NRF Outstanding Young Scientist Grant, the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award, and the ISLPED International Low Power Design Contest Award. He has published over 75 papers in premier IEEE and ACM peer-reviewed conferences, including International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), European Solid-State Electronics Conference (ESSERC), Asian Solid State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), and the IEEE flagship journals such as Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS). Prof. Kim currently serves on the technical program committees (TPC) for ISSCC, ESSERC, and A-SSCC. Previously, he served on the TPCs for the IEEE CICC, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) and the Design Automation Conference (DAC). He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L) and has previously served as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) and the IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS).