Advisor

Education:

• • B.S.     Electrical Engineering, Hanyang University    Feb. 2006

• M.S.    Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)    Feb. 2008

• Ph.D.   Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)    Aug. 2019

Work Experience:

• Dec. 2007 - Jun. 2008 Research Intern, Magma-Design Automation (FineSim Team@Austin)

• Aug. 2008 - Feb. 2015 Staff Engineer, Samsung S.LSI

• Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2020: Staff Engineer, Samsung Foundry

• Sep. 2020 - Aug. 2023: Assistant Professor, Cheongju University

• Sep. 2023 - present: Assistant Professor, Sejong University

Research Interest:

• VLSI physical design

• Machine-learning for computer-aided design

• Standard cell design, optimization, and characterization

• CAD for new technologies, such as 3D-IC, PIM, and NPU

Awards and Honors:

• Nominated for Best Paper Award, Asia-South Pacific Design Automation Conf. (ASP-DAC), Beijing, China, 2020

• Travel Grant Award for Student Research Competition (SRC) - finalist, ICCAD, San-Diego, US, 2018

• Travel Grant Award for Student Research Forum (SRF), ASPDAC, Chiba, Japan, 2017

• Best Paper Award, Int'l SoC Design Conf. (ISOCC), Kyeongju, Korea, 2015

Professional Activities:

    Journal Editorship

• Review Editor (2015 -), IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)

• Review Editor (2020 -), IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated Systems (TVLSI)

• Review Editor (2023 -), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I)

• Review Editor (2024 -), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)

    Conference & Lecture Activities

• • LX-Semicon lecture: low-power design, (2024 -)

  • TPC member, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, (2023 -)

  • Exhibition chair, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2024

  • TPC member, International SoC Design Conference, (2022 -)

  • Chair of VLSI CAD division, Korean Conference on Semiconductors, (2024 -)

  • Invited talk, The 28th Korean Conference on Semiconductors, 2021