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

• Best Paper Awards Silver Prize@ International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) Asia 2025, Oct, 2025

• 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 Chair - T12: Quantum Networking and Computing, 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

Invited Talk

• Short-Term Course of the Semiconductor Specialization Program in Kyungpook National University, 2026

• Quantum & Emerging Applications Session @KIISE Computer System Society Winter Symposium, 2026

• 2025-2 Colloquium Dept. of Physics in Ajou University, 2025

• SS-09: Quantum Algorithms: From Modeling to Execution by KETI @ICCE-Asia 2025, 2025

• Digital IC Session @25th RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, 2025

• Invited Expert Seminar in ETRI, 2025

• Rising Star Research Session @Summer Conference of the Institute of Semiconductor Engineers, 2025

• Invited Expert Seminar in KETI, 2025

• EE Seminar in Hongik University, 2024

• EE Seminar in Kyungpook National University, 2023

• Quantum Computing Session @2023 IEIE SoC Conference, 2023

• IBM Quantum Young Scientists' Workshop @2022 NANO Korea Symposium, 2022