AWARDS

• IEEE SSCS Rising Star Award (2024, Yuqi Su)

• NTU EEE Best Thesis Award (Interdisciplinary Research Award) (2024, Yuqi Su)

• Winner of SSCS Reviewer Reward Program for 2023

• IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award (2023, Chengshuo Yu)

• Distinguished Design Award at IEEE A-SSCC2023 Student Design Contest: SESOMP: A Scalable Energy-Efficient Self-Organizing Map Processor with Compute-In-Memory and Dead Neuron Pruning

• IEEE CASS Best TC/SIG Award for 2023 (Chair: Tony Tae-Hyoung Kim)

• Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology (WiEST) Development Grant (2023, Mu Junjie)

• IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award (2022, Yuqi Su)

• IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer (03/2022 ~ 02/2024)

• IEEE IW-FICAS Best Poster Award (2022, Yuncheng Lu): A 181μW Real-Time 3-D Hand-Gesture Recognition System for Edge Applications

• IEEE ISSCC2022 Student Travel Grant Award (2022, Yuqi Su): FlexSpin: A Scalable CMOS Ising Machine with 256 Flexible Spin Processing Elements for Solving Complex Combinatorial Optimization Problems

• 1st Prize at EEE Graduate Research Showcase (2022, Zhengzhe Wei): Beyond DNN, Ultra-Low Power, and yet DNN Rivaling Image Processing in the Age of Edge Computing via Emulation of the Mammalian Retina

• ICCE-Asia Best Paper Award (Gold Prize) (2021, Yuncheng Lu): Low-Power Error-Tolerant Gesture Recognition System based on Spatial and Temporal Ensemble Model

• Korean Federation of Science and Technology (KOFST) Award (2021)

• IEEE ISSCC2019 Student Travel Grant Award (2019, Yuncheng Yu): A 213.7-µW Gesture Recognition System for Wearables

• 3rd Prize at EEE Graduate Research Showcase (2018, Van Loi Le): A 0.4-V 0.138-fJ/Cycle Single-Phase-Clocking Redundant-Transition-Free Change-Sensing Flip-Flop in 40-nm CMOS

• Best Poster Award at KSEASG Symposium for Young Generation Scientists and Engineers (2018, Van Loi Le): A 137-μW Area-Efficient Real-Time Gesture Recognition System for Smart Wearable Devices

• IEEE A-SSCC2017 Student Travel Grant Award (2017, Karim Rawy): An 88% Efficiency MPPT for PV Energy Harvesting System with Novel Switch Width Modulation for Output Power 100nW to 0.3mW

• Silver Award at Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in Singapore (KSEASG) Annual Autumn Seminar (2016, Taegeun Yoo): A High Efficient Architecture of Direct-Digital Frequency Synthesizer with a Nonlinear DAC

• Bronze Award at Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in Singapore (KSEASG) Annual Autumn Seminar (2016, Karim Rawy): A time-based self-adaptive MPPT system with ultra-low power consumption for energy harvesting systems and IoT applications

• Best Live Demonstration Award at APCCAS (2016, Seyed Ali Zeinolabedin): A 128-Channel Spike Sorting Processor Featuring 0.175 µW and 0.0033 mm2 per Channel in 65-nm CMOS

• International Low Power Design Contest Award at ISLPED (2016, Seyed Ali Zeinolabedin): A 128-Channel Spike Sorting Processor Featuring 0.175 µW and 0.0033 mm2 per Channel in 65-nm CMOS

• Best Demo Award at Design Innovation Project Competition, NTU (2016, Ngoc Le Ba): IR-based Gesture Recognition for Human-Machine-Interfacing

• IEEE CAS Seoul Chapter Award at ISOCC (2014): A 0.5V 29pJ/Cycle Sensor Node Processor for Intelligent Sensing Applications

• IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter Award at ISOCC (2011): "Impacts of NBTI/PBTI on SRAM VMIN and Design Techniques for SRAM VMIN Improvement"

• Gold Award at Nanyang Research Program (2010) by Hong En Chew

• IEEE AMD/CICC Student Scholarship Award (2008): “A Voltage Scalable 0.26V, 64kb 8T SRAM with Vmin Lowering Techniques and Deep Sleep Mode”

• ECE Departmental Research Fellowship from University of Minnesota (2008)

• IEEE DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest (2008): “Silicon Odometer: An On-Chip Reliability Monitor for Measuring Frequency Degradation of Digital Circuits”

• Bronze Prize at 14th Humantec Thesis Prize from Samsung Electronics (2008): “A 0.60 to 0.23V, 64kb 8T SRAM with Vmin Lowering Techniques and Deep Sleep Mode”

• Research Assistantship from University of Minnesota (01, 2007 ~ 10, 2009)

• Teaching Assistantship from University of Minnesota (Fall 2006): "EE3005 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering"

• Research Assistantship from University of Minnesota (09, 2005 ~ 08, 2006)

• ETRI Journal Paper of the Year Award (2005): “Voltage-Mode 1.5Gbps Interface Circuits for Chip-to-Chip Communication”

• Honor Prize at 7th Humantec Thesis Prize from Samsung Electronics (2001): “A Low Power 10-bit 40Msamples/s CMOS Folding and Interpolating ADC with a Novel Architecture”

• Silver Prize at 5th Humantec Thesis Prize from Samsung Electronics (1999): “An 8-Bit 33MHz Cascaded Folding & Interpolating A/D Converter with Sub-Ranging Comparison Architecture and Digital Error Correction”

• Research Assistantship from Samsung Electronics (09, 1999 ~02, 2001)

TUTORIAL/FORUM/PANEL

• 20th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC) (Jeju, Korea, 10/2023): "Recent Trend in Computing-in-Memory: Analog vs. Digital"

• Summer Annual Conference of IEIE (Jeju, Korea, 06/2023): Design of Computing-in-Memory: Analog vs. Digital

• IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC2022) (Taipei, Taiwan, 11/2022): Computing-in-memory: Opportunities and Challenges

• IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC2022) (San Francisco, USA, 02/2022): Energy-Constrained Tiny ML for IoT Applications (Forum)

• IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC2021) (Busan, Korea, 11/2021): PIM will go with Analog or Digital (Panel)

• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2021) (Daegu, Korea, 05/2021): Revolutionizing AI Hardware with Processing-in-Memory: From Architectures to Circuits

• IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS2019) (Bangkok, Thailand, 11/2019): Design of Ultra-low Power SRAMs for IoT, Security and Computation-in-Memory

• 32nd International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC2019) (Singapore, 09/2019): Design of Ultra-low Power SRAMs for IoT, Security and Computation-in-Memory

• 15th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC) (Daegu, Korea, 11/2018): "Minimum-Energy-Driven Integrated Circuits Design for Green Electronics"

• International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC) (Honolulu. HI, USA, 01/2018): "Ultra-low Power/Energy SRAM Design for Internet-of-Things"

• 14th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC) (Seoul, Korea, 11/2017): "Ultra-low Power/Energy SRAM Design for Internet-of-Things"

• 60th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) (Boston, MA, USA, 08/2017): "Ultra-low Power/Energy SRAM Design for Internet-of-Things"

• International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communication (ICEIC) (Singapore, 01/2015): “Ultra-low power integrated circuit design for green computing” 

INVITED TALKS

• “Design of computing-in-memory and its application in tiny machine learning accelerators,” IEEE SSCS Singapore Chapter, 12/2023

• “Design of Computing-in-Memory: Analog vs. Digital,” IEEE SSCS Chengdu Chapter, China, 12/2023

• “Design of Computing-in-Memory: Analog vs. Digital,” IEEE SSCS Hong Kong Chapter, China, 12/2023

• “Design of Computing-in-Memory: Analog vs. Digital,” IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter, Korea, 11/2023

• “Low Power PAM-3 Transceivers,” Samsung Electronics, Korea, 07/2023

• “Design of Computing-in-Memory: Analog vs. Digital,” POSTECH, Korea, 07/2023

• “Design of Computing-in-Memory ReRAM-based Processing-in-Memory),” CBNU, Korea, 07/2023

• "Design of computing-in-memory: Analog vs. Digital," IEEE SSCS Kansai Chapter, 06/2023 (IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture) 

• “Design of Computing-in-Memory: Analog vs. Digital,” Inha University, Korea, 06/2023

• “Design of Computing-in-Memory: Analog vs. Digital,” Korea University, 04/2023

• "Design of computing-in-memory: Analog vs. Digital," IEEE SSCS Thailand Chapter, 01/2023 (IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture) 

• "Tiny ML accelerator design for IoT applications: Challenges and Trends," IEEE SSCS Thailand Chapter, 01/2023 (IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture) 

• “Design of Computing-in-Memory: Analog vs. Digital,” Chung-Ang University, 12/2022

• "Design of computing-in-memory: Analog vs. Digital," ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, 11/2022 (IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture) 

• "Design of computing-in-memory: Analog vs. Digital," Katholieke Universiteit (KU), Leuven, Belgium, 11/2022 (IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture)

• “Ultra-low Power Gesture Recognition Techniques for Smart Medical and IoT Applications,” Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT), 06/2022

• “Energy-constrained Tiny ML for IoT applications,” Chung-Ang University, 06/2022

• “Minimum-energy-driven Embedded Memory Design for IoT Applications,” IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture hosted by IEEE ED/MTT/SSC Penang Joint Chapter, 04/2022

• "Ultra-low Power/Energy SRAM Design for Emerging Applications," Peking University, China, 07/2019

• "Ultra-low Power/Energy SRAM Design for Emerging Applications," Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 07/2019

• "Ultra-low Power/Energy SRAM Design for Emerging Applications," UESTC, China, 07/2019

• “Minimum Energy Driven Integrated Circuits Design for Green Electronics,” DGIST, Korea, 11/2018

• “Ultra-low power processing engines assisted with machine learning and neural networks,” MediaTek-Cadence Technology Forum, Singapore, 10/2018

• “Ultra-low power gesture recognition SoCs for smart devices and IoT applications,” Chung-Ang University, Korea, 07/2018

• “Ultra-low voltage circuits design with energy minimization techniques for biomedical and IoT applications,” Dongguk University, Korea, 07/2018

• “Circuit Reliability: On-chip Reliability Monitoring and Rejuvenating,” MediaTek, Singapore, 03/2018

• “TENG-based Energy Harvesting Circuits for IoT Applications,” Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, 06/2017

• “Minimum Energy Driven Ultra-low Voltage Digital Circuits Design,” Chung-Ang University, Korea, 06/2017

• “Ultra-low power integrated circuit design for IoT and biomedical applications,” Kyunghee University, Korea, 03/2017

• “Ultra-low Power SRAM Design for Biomedical and IoT Applications,” Columbia University, USA, 11/2016

• “Ultra-low Power SRAM Design for Biomedical and IoT Applications,” IC Design Education Center, Korea, 10/2016

• “Self-powered Energy Harvesting Circuits for Biomedical and IoT Applications,” Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, 07/2016

• “Minimum Energy Driven Ultra-low Voltage Digital Circuits Design,” UNIST, Korea, 08/2015

• “Ultra-low Voltage SRAM Design for Minimum Energy Driven Applications,” HKUST, Hong Kong, 07/2015

• “Ultra-low Voltage Flip-Flop and Level-up Converter,” NXP, Singapore, 04/2015

• “Ultra-low leakage Near-threshold SRAM Design,” NXP, Singapore, 04/2015

• “Ultra-low Power Circuit Design for Minimum-Energy-Driven Applications,” POSTECH, Korea, 07/2014

• “Ultra-low Power Circuit Design for Minimum-Energy-Driven Applications,” DGIST, Korea, 07/2014

• “Ultra-low Power Circuit Design with/without Nonvolatile Memory,” Hanyang University, Korea, 05/2014

• “ Design of Low Power, Low Voltage Memory for High Temperature Operation (up to 300C),” UNIST, Korea, 11/2013

• “ Design of Embedded Memory in Nano-scale CMOS Technology,” Kyunghee University, Korea, 05/2012

• “ Design of Embedded Memory in Nano-scale CMOS Technology,” Korea University, Korea, 11/2011

• “ Design of Embedded Memory in Nano-scale CMOS Technology,” Chung-Ang University, Korea, 04/2011

• “ Design of Embedded Memory in Nano-scale CMOS Technology,” A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Singapore, 04/2011

• “ Design of Reliable Circuits in Nano-scale Technologies,” Samsung Electronics, Korea, 11/2009

• “ Design Techniques for Ultra-low Voltage Sub-threshold Circuits,” Korea University, Korea, 11/2009

• “Design of Reliable Circuits in Nano-scale Technologies,” National University of Singapore, Singapore, 07/2009

• “Array Based Test Structure for Measuring SRAM Mismatch with Aging Effect,” IBM CMOS Design Forum, USA, 08/2008

• “Test Structure for NBTI/PBTI Measurement using Ring Oscillator,” IBM CMOS Design Forum, USA, 08/2007