Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Education
Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, 2024 Aug.
(Dissertation: From Theory to Practice: Optimized Quantum Compilation Methods for NISQ to FTQC)
M. S. in Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, 2021 Feb.
(Thesis: An Optimal Qubit Mapping Method for NISQ Computers)
B. S. in Electronics Engineering, KNU, 2019 Feb.
Employment History
2025.3 - present : Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University, Korea
2024.9 - 2025.2 : Post-Doc., CAD & SoC Design Lab. (Prof. Seokhyeong Kang), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH, Korea
2023.8 - 2024.2 : Visiting Scholar, Chair for Design Automation (Prof. Robert Wille), Technical University of Munich, Germany
Research Area
Quantum Computer Systems
Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Design Automation for Quantum Computing
Quantum Circuit Compilation (i.e., Qubit Mapping)
Honors and Awards
2023 Jinyong Jeong Scholarship@ The Institute of Semiconductor Engineers, Dec, 2023
2023-1 POSTECHIAN fellowship, May. 2023
4th Prize in the 3rd POSTECH Excellent Research Performance Contest, Feb. 2023
Top Prize in the 2nd POSTECH-EE Excellent Research Performance Contest, Jan. 2023
QML Overall Challenge 1st Place Winner at qBraid HAQS 2022, Nov. 2022
Honorable mention in the ISPD Contest 2020 (Wafer-Scale Deep Learning Accelerator Placement), 2020
Best paper award at SoC conference (in Korea), May. 2019
Academic Activity
IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) Track Co-Chairs, 2026
IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW) Reviewer, 2025
IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) Reviewer, 2022
IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) Reviewer, 2021