Research group of Suin Yi and the Wise (RSW)

[Recent News]

May-2026:

• Jounghun's paper "Total-Ionizing Dose Effect in 3D Charge-Trap NAND Flash Memory Cells" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. We presented the first Technology Computer Aided Design (T-CAD) model for the TID radiation effects together with experimental measurements on 180-layer 3D NAND Flash Memory. Congratulations!

• Arjuman's paper "Area and Energy Efficient Carry Select Adder utilizing Molecular Memristor" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. Congratulations!

Apr-2026:

• Farewell with Dominic (B.S. in Electrical Engineering), Rhys (B.S. in Computer Engineering), and Jounghun (postdoc training). Best wish to your careers at Texas Instruments, Samsung Austin Semiconductor, and Memory business at Samsung Electronics, respectively!

Mar-2026:

• Two papers accepted as oral presentations by the 2026 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC). Kudos to first authors Vishwanath for "Radiation-Tolerant Analog In-Memory FFT" and Jounghun for "Multi-Soft Program Scheme on Single-Event Upset" both using 180-layer 3D NAND flash memories. Also special thanks to co-authors, Dr. Matthew Breeding, Mr. Sungyoun Seo, and Prof. Sungho Kim! Hope that our works will play a role of pathfinding for memory/information-intensive AI compute and signal processing in space.

Jan-2026:

• Dongha, Xinyan, and Jamari are awarded the Samsung Austin Semiconductor Fellowship for the Spring 2026 semester. Congrats!

Oct-2025: 

• RSW Memristor Lab has openings. Please check Positions tab.

• Prof. Yi secured the 5th year research funding of ($70k+$70k+$90k+$79k+$79k) from Sandia with LDRD (Dr. Elliot Fuller).

• Prof. Yi received a project award "Radiation-hard 3D NAND Flash Memory Operations for Space Electronics" from TAMU System Nuclear Security Office (NSO) ($100k, Oct/01/2025 - Sep/30/2026)

Sep-2025:

• Xinyan is awarded the Samsung Austin Semiconductor Fellowship for the Fall 2025 semester. Congrats!

Aug-2025:

• Excited to start a new semester of the Fall 2025! Welcome new members: Jooho, Jounghun, Xinyan, and Ajay!

Jun-2025:

• Vishwanath passed his qualifying exam. One shot again! Congratulations.

May-2025:

• Prof. Yi passed his Mid-term evaluation. Thank you all for your help and support!

Feb-2025:

• Prof. Yi awarded the AirForce Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) with project "Flexible Thermodynamic Memristors for Power-Efficient Artificial Neurons" under PO: Dr. Gregg Abate  at Multiscale Multifunctional Structures and Systems. ($438k, Sep/01/2025 - Aug/31/2028)

Jan-2025:

• Jamari and Dominic are awarded the Samsung Austin Semiconductor Fellowship (2nd year gift $1M from Samsung) for the Spring 2025 and Fall 2025. Congratulations!

Dec-2024:

• Prof. Yi received an NSF award entitled "ENG-SEMICON: Hyperscale Analog Edge Computing by 3D NAND flash memory with Brain-inspired Artificial Neurons and Learning Algorithms" with University of Oklahoma (Profs. Banadaki and Venkatesan) from Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) (Dr. Rosa Lukaszew): $500k (May/01/2025 ~ Apr/30/2028).

Nov-2024:

• Dr. Jae Young Kim from Seoul National University (SNU) joined RSW Memristor Lab. Welcome to Texas!

Oct-2024: 

• Prof. Yi secured the 4th year research funding of ($70k+$70k+$90k+$79k) from Sandia with LDRD (Dr. Suhas Kumar).

Sep-2024: 

• Vishwanath from Intel joined our group for his PhD study. Welcome to Texas!

• Claire, Rhys, and Parth are awarded with the Samsung Austin Semiconductor Fellowship ($1M gift from Samsung) for the 2024 Fall and 2025 Spring semesters. Congratulations! 

Aug-2024:

• Our research group in conjunction with AggieFab of Texas A&M U. has TWO immediate Postdoc positions available. See more in detail in the Positions tab.

Jul-2024:

• Nazmus and Arjuman passed their PhD qualifying exams at their first shots!

Apr-2024:

• Dr. Hanchan Song from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) joined RSW Memristor Lab. Welcome to Aggieland!

Mar-2024:

• Jinzhan passed his Qualifying Exam at the first trial. Congratulations!

Feb-2024:

• Prof. Yi received research funding of $1M from Office of Naval Research (ONR) jointly with University of Rhode Island (Prof. Kim) for NAND Flash-based Signal Processing applications!

Jan-2024: 

• Nazmus, Brittney, Dominic, Amol, and Atef are awarded with the Samsung Austin Semiconductor Fellowship ($1M gift from Samsung) for 2024 Spring and Fall semesters. Congratulations! [Samsung and 한국뉴스]

Dec-2023: Sam Altman and OpenAI buy $51M chips from Rain, our collaborator! [Link] 

Oct-2023: Prof. Yi secured the 3rd year research funding of ($70k+$70k+$90k) from Sandia National Laboratories with Laboratory Directed R&D (LDRD) under Dr. Kumar!

May-2023: We are hiring talented researchers. See Positions tab for more information.

Apr-2023: Nazmus, Jieun, and Arjuman are admitted to the PhD program in ECEN at Texas A&M University. Congratulations!

Mar-2023: Kyung Hwan from SKKU, Korea visits us for collaborations using 1-D material based Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos. Welcome to Aggieland!

Jan-2023: Jinzhan is admitted to PhD program. Congratulations!

December-2022: Hung-Ta comes back from his internship in Cirrus Logic in Austin. Welcome back!

December-2022: Our recent paper was featured on TechXplore! [Link] 

October-2022: Our paper 'Activity-difference Training of Deep Neural Networks using Memristor crossbars' has been accepted by Nature Electronics (Impact Factor=33). Thank you, Suhas, Stan, and Jack!! [Link] 

October-2022: Our paper 'Energy and Space Efficient 32-bit Parallel Adder using Molecular Memristors' has been accepted by Advanced Materials (Impact Factor=32).  Thank you, Sreetosh and Venky!! [Link] 

September-2022: Our paper 'Physical Compact Model for Three-Terminal SONOS Synaptic Circuit Element' has been published with Back Cover image by Advanced Intelligent Systems (Impact Factor=7.3). Thank you, Alec, Matt, and Stan!! [Link]