Professor

Yang-Kyu Choi

Department of Electrical Engineering KAIST

291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Dajeon 305-701, Republic of Korea


Office : 82-42-350-3477

Fax : 042-350-3477

E-mail : ykchoi@ee.kaist.ac.kr

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Education

Ph. D. University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. 2001.

M.S. University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. 1999.

M.S. Seoul National University, Physics. 1991.

B.S. Seoul National University, Physics Education. 1989.

Professional Experience

2011 - Professor at KAIST

2006 - 2010 Associate Professor at KAIST

2004 - 2006 Assistant Professor at KAIST

2001 - 2003 Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California., Berkeley

Consultant for TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)

1991 - 1997 Hynix (Hyundai Electronics), Inc. Korea

Awards and Honors

  • 한국공학한림원(NAEK) 정회원, 2023

  • Award of Dawon Kahng, The Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), 2022

  • Award of Innovative Technology, KAIST, 2011.

  • Award of Academic Excellence, KAIST, 2009.

  • Development of Unified Random Access Memory to combine DRAM and Flash memory was introduced in major daily newspapers as well as MBC, KBS, and YTN on July 2008 (Reported at Nikkei Asia in Japan).

  • Development of Unified Random Access Memory to combine DRAM and Flash memory was introduced in major daily newspapers as well as MBC, KBS, and YTN on July 2008 (Reported at Nikkei Asia in Japan).

  • Best Student paper award (advisee student) from 2008 Symposium of VLSI Technology. patents.

  • Development of the bio-transistor was published in Nature Nanotechnology and introduced in major daily newspapers as well as MBC, KBS, and YTN on June 2007.

  • Development of 8nm World Record Smallest Non-volatile Flash Memory Device was introduced in major daily newspapers as well as MBC, KBS, and YTN on March 2007 (Reported at Nikkei Asia in Japan).

  • Development of 8nm World Record Smallest Non-volatile Flash Memory Device was introduced in major daily newspapers as well as MBC, KBS, and YTN on March 2007 (Reported at Nikkei Asia in Japan).

  • Best poster paper award (advisee student), IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conferences 2006.

  • Award of Excellent Teaching (Spring), KAIST, 2006.

  • Awarded as The scientist of the Month for July 2006” from the Ministry of Science and Technology in Korea.

  • Development of 3nm World Record Smallest Transistor was introduced in major daily newspapers as well as MBC, KBS, and YTN on March 2006. (Reported at EE Times and United Press International in U.S. and Nikkei Asia in Japan)

  • Biographical profile was published in 57th Marquis Who’sWho in America (2002)

  • Best student paper of “International Silicon-on-Insulator Conference”, 2001.

  • One of best papers of “International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium”, 2001.

  • Interview with MBC News Desk at 9pm for Nano-CMOS (January 2, 2000: Special Issues in New Millennium).

  • Article, “Ultra-thin Body SOI MOSFET for Deep-Sub-Tenth Micron Era” was reported in EE Times (Wednesday, December 08, 1999), and Microelectronics Technology Alert (Friday, December 17, 1999).

  • Sakrison Memorial Prize for best dissertation and outstanding research at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the University of California-Berkeley.

Research Interests

Semiconductor devices, nanoscale transistor, neuromorphic devices & system, security devices, nanofabrication, triboelectric nanogenerator, etc.

More than 370 papers, 1 book, 2 book chapters

Books

  1. Book: “Investigation on Schottky-Barrier MOSFET for Memory Application” (Lambert Academic Publshing), 2010

  2. Book chapter: Advances in Solid State Circuit Technologies Edited by Paul K. Chu, Yang-Kyu Choi and Jin-Woo Han, Chapter 4 “Evolutionary Memory: Unified Random Access Memory (URAM),” pp.55-80, Intech, 2010

  3. Book chapter: “Semiconductor Devices” (Dooyang Publisher), Co-author to charge of chapter: 8, 9, and 10, 2010 nanofabrication, bio-mimesis with nanofabrication, etc.

Patents

  • 35 USA, 13 China, 12 Japan, 2 Europe, and 2 German were granted.

  • 252 Korea patents were granted.