Sunwoong Kim
Assistant ProfessorÂ
Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Office: James E. Gleason Hall (009) - 3031
Email: sskeme -at- rit.edu
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). I am also affiliated with the Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT and the University of Washington Bothell (UWB). Before joining RIT, I worked as an Assistant Professor at the UWB for four years (from 2019 to 2023). Prior to this role, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for two and a half years (from 2017 to 2019) under the supervision of Prof. Rob A. Rutenbar. From 2016 to 2017, I worked at the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center (ISRC), Seoul National University (SNU), as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. I received Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from SNU, in 2016, 2012, and 2010, respectively, under the guidance of Prof. Hyuk-Jae Lee. My research interest is in the design of cryptographic hardware, focusing on custom hardware accelerators of homomorphic encryption primitives using FPGAs and heterogeneous computing platforms. Additionally, I explore privacy-preserving applications in embedded/cyber-physical systems as well as the design of approximate computing hardware.
Latest News
Apr. 2024: A full paper was accepted to GLSVLSI'24
Mar. 2024: I was awarded an RIT FEAD grant as a PI
Dec. 2023: An article was accepted to IEEE TVLSI
Aug. 2023: I joined RIT as an Assistant Professor
Jun. 2023: I served GLSVLSI'23 as a session chair
Apr. 2023: I provided an invited talk in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Sogang University
Mar. 2023: A full paper was accepted to GLSVLSI'23
Mar. 2023: Congratulations to James on winning the Mary Gates Research Scholarship!
Jan. 2023: Two papers were accepted to IEEE ISCAS'23
Nov. 2022: I provided an invited talk at the NWRC+KOCSEA+CHANGBAL 2022 conference
Nov. 2022: I provided an invited talk in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at SNU
Aug. 2022: Two papers were accepted to IEEE MMSP'22
Jun. 2022: I served GLSVLSI'22 as a session chair
Apr. 2022: Congratulations to Michael on winning the Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Award!
Mar. 2022: A full paper was accepted to GLSVLSI'22
Mar. 2022: An article was accepted to IEEE THMS
Mar. 2022: Congratulations to Cameron on winning the Mary Gates Research Scholarship and the Thomas Joseph Sedlock Icon Scholarship!
Jan. 2022: A book chapter was published
Dec. 2021: Congratulations to Sharmila on passing her thesis defense!
Sep. 2021: I provided an invited talk at Korea Military Academy
Jul. 2021: I was awarded a 2 year NSF CRII grant as a PI
May 2021: A short paper (w/ 6 pages) was accepted to IEEE RTCSA'21
Feb. 2021: Congratulations to Cameron on winning the Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Award!
Feb. 2021: I provided an invited talk in the Center for 4th Industrial Revolution Pioneering University at Sun Moon University
Jan. 2021: A paper was accepted to IEEE ISCAS'21
Jun. 2020: I was awarded a 1 year UW RRF grant as a PI (success rate of 25%)
Apr. 2020: I was awarded a 4 year IITP grant as a Co-PI
Mar. 2020: A full paper was accepted to IEEE FCCM'20 (acceptance rate of 21%)
Feb. 2020: I was invited to attend Homomorphic Encryption Workshop 2020
Nov. 2019: I joined UWB as an Assistant Professor
Oct. 2019: I joined CryptoLab in South Korea as a Visiting Researcher
Sep. 2019: A full paper was accepted to ReConFig'19
Jul. 2019: An article was accepted to IEEE CAL
Jul. 2019: I provided an invited talk in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at SNU
Feb. 2019: A full paper was accepted to GLSVLSI'19