Associate Professor
Deputy Director, Centre for Integrated Circuits and Systems (CICS)
Programme Director, NTU-TUM (ICD) MSc.
thkim at ntu dot edu dot sg
Tel. - 65-6790-4001 (Office)
Ph.D University of Minnesota
M.S. Korea University
B.S. Korea University
Prof. Tony T. Kim received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Korea University, Seoul, Korea. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA in 2009. From 2001 to 2005, he worked for Samsung Electronics where he performed research on the design of high-speed SRAM memories, clock generators, and IO interface circuits. In 2007 ~ 2009 summer, he was with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and Broadcom Corporation where he performed research on isolated NBTI/PBTI measurement circuits and SRAM Mismatch measurement test structure, and battery-backed memory design, respectively. In November 2009, he joined Nanyang Technological University where he is currently an associate professor. His current research interests include in-memory computing for edge computing, emerging memory circuit design, energy-efficient circuits and systems for IoT and wearable devices, variation and aging tolerant circuits and systems, and circuit techniques for 3-D ICs .
He received Best Demo Award at 2016 IEEE APCCAS, International Low Power Design Contest award at 2016 IEEE/ACM ISLPED, a best paper award at 2014 and 2011 ISOCC, 2008 AMD/CICC Student Scholarship Award, 2008 Departmental Research Fellowship from U. of Minnesota, 2008 IEEE DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award, 2008 Samsung Humantec Thesis Award (Bronze Prize), 2005 ETRI Journal Paper of the Year Award, 2001 Samsung Humantec Thesis Award (Honor Prize), and 1999 Samsung Humantec Thesis Award (Silver Prize). He is an author/co-author of +200 journal and conference papers and holds 17 US and Korean patents. He serves the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Frontiers in Electronics, and IEIE Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science (JSTS). He has also served as a technical committee member of various conferences such as IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), etc. He was the Chair of IEEE SSCS Singapore Chapter in 2015~2016, a distinguished lecturer of IEEE SSCS in 2022~2023, and the Chair of IEEE CASS VSA-TC in 2022~2024. He is a senior member of IEEE.
02/2023 ~ 07/2023, Visiting Professor, Samsung Electronics, Korea
03/2025 ~ Present, Visiting Professor, Sogang University, Korea
07/2016 ~ Present, Visiting Professor, Hanyang University, Korea
07/2017 ~ 12/2017, Visiting Scholar, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
05/2009 ~ 08/2009, Broadcom, USA
06/2008 ~ 08/2008, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
05/2007 ~ 08/2007, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
02/2001 ~ 06/2005, Samsung Electronics, Korea
Professional Activities
IEEE Senior Member
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2022 ~ 2023
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Singapore Chapter:
Chair, 2015~2016
Vice-chair, 2014
Member, 2013~
IEEE CASS VLSI Systems & Applications Technical Committee (VSATC)
Chair, 2022~Present
Chair-Elect/Secretary, 2020~2022
Member, 2013~Present
Editorial Board:
IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Associate Editor, 2016~
Frontiers in Electronics, Review Editors, 2022~
IEIE Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science (JSTS), Associate Editor, 2017~
IEEE Access, Associate Editor, 2018~2022
Guest Editor
IEEE TCAS-I Special Issue for ISCAS2024
IEEE JETCAS Special Issue on PIM, 2022
IEEE TBCAS Special Issue for ISCAS2021
JLPEA Special Issue on Ultra-low Power VLSI Design, 2015~2017
Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers (JCSC) Special Issue on Convergence of IC and Complexity, 2015
Technical Program Co-chair:
International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2012, 2013, 2014
International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), 2014
Technical Program Committee Member:
IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2013, 2015 ~ Current
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2013 ~ Current
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2024 ~ Current
IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2014, 2016, 2020~2022
IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), 2015 ~ 2017
IEEE Intl. Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), 2015 ~ 2017
International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), 2013, 2014, 2015
Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED), 2012, 2013, 2015
Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference (IEDEC), 2012, 2013, 2014
International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), 2011, 2014, 2016
Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), 2017~2019
Chip Design Competition Panel:
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2014, 2016
International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), 2011
Journal Reviewer for
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED), IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBCAS), IEEE Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), Nature Electronics, ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies (JETC), IET Electronics Letters (ELL), IET Circuits, Devices & Systems (CDS), International Journal of Circuit Theory and Application (CTA), IEICE Transactions on Electronics, IEIE Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science (JSTS), Microelectronics Journals (MEJ), Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing (ALOG), Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers (JCSC), Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE), ETRI Journal