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Dec. 31, 2020
'Thank you cake'
(Students gave me a surprise present, cake)
Apr. 02, 2021
Class of 'AI-centered national defense ICT'
(2nd-year class, including students from
Turkey, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia)
Student Mentorship (during Assistant Professorship)
Ki Yeong Kim
▶ Co-mentored, BS student @ Pukyong National University; joined POSTECH as a graduate student
▶ Research focus: Reliability-aware device design, electro-thermal co-design
Ki Yeong Kim†, Young Suh Song†, Garam Kim, Sangwan Kim, and Jang Hyun Kim, "Reliable High-Voltage Drain-Extended FinFET With Thermoelectric Improvement," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (IEEE TED), Oct. 2022 [Download]
Young Suh Song, Ki Yeong Kim, Tae Young Yoon, Seok Jung Kang, Garam Kim, Sangwan Kim, and Jang Hyun Kim, "Reliability Improvement of Self-heating Effect, Hot-Carrier Injection, and On-current Variation by Electrical/Thermal Co-design," Solid-State Electronics (SSE), Nov. 2022 [Download]
Ki Yeong Kim, Tae Hyun Hwang, Young Suh Song, Hyun Woo Kim, and Jang Hyun Kim, “Machine Learning Algorithm for Efficient Design of Separated Buffer Super-Junction IGBT,” Micromachines, Jan. 2023 [Download]
Seok Jung Kang
▶ Co-mentored, MS student @ Ajou University; joined LX Semicon as a researcher
▶ Research focus: Thermal reliability in advanced MOSFET architectures
Seok Jung Kang, Jang Hyun Kim, Young Suh Song, Seungwon Go, and Sangwan Kim, "Investigation of Self-heating Effects in Vertically Stacked GAA MOSFET with Wrap-Around Contact," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (IEEE TED), March 2022 [Download]
Young Suh Song, Ki Yeong Kim, Tae Young Yoon, Seok Jung Kang, Garam Kim, Sangwan Kim, and Jang Hyun Kim, "Reliability Improvement of Self-heating Effect, Hot-Carrier Injection, and On-current Variation by Electrical/Thermal Co-design," Solid-State Electronics (SSE), Nov. 2022 [Download]
Academic Advising (at Korea Military Academy)
▶ Served as secondary academic advisor to ~6 cadets each year for 3 consecutive years
▶ Provided one-on-one guidance on academics, career planning, and personal development
Research Collaboration (during Assistant Professorship)
Dr. Shubham Tayal
▶ Collaborated, Assistant Professor @ SR University; now a researcher at Synopsys
▶ Research focus: Device/circuit co-design, emerging low-power semiconductor devices
Shubham Tayal, Billel Smaani, Shiromani Balmukund Rahi, Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay, Sandip Bhattacharya, J. Ajayan, Biswajit Jena, Ilho Myeong, Byung-Gook Park, and Young Suh Song*, "Incorporating Bottom-Up Approach Into Device/Circuit Co-Design for SRAM-Based Cache Memory Applications," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (IEEE TED), vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 6127-6132, Nov. 2022, USA [Download]
Shubham Tayal, Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay, Shiromani Balmukund Rahi, and Young Suh Song, "Advanced Ultra Low Power Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistors and their Applications," Wiley, Nov. 2023. [Wiley Link]
Dr. Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay
▶ Collaborated, R&D Engineer NVM-technology @ X-FAB; now a Principal Engineer at GlobalFoundries
▶ Research focus: Emerging low-power transistors, device/circuit co-design
Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay, Shiromani Balmukund Rahi, Shubham Tayal, and Young Suh Song, "Recent progress on negative capacitance tunnel FET for low-power applications: Device perspective," Microelectronics Journal, Nov. 2022 [Download]
Shubham Tayal, Billel Smaani, Shiromani Balmukund Rahi, Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay, Sandip Bhattacharya, J. Ajayan, Biswajit Jena, Ilho Myeong, Byung-Gook Park, and Young Suh Song*, "Incorporating Bottom-Up Approach Into Device/Circuit Co-Design for SRAM-Based Cache Memory Applications," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (IEEE TED), vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 6127-6132, Nov. 2022, USA [Download]
Industry Collaboration (so far)
TSMC (S. Vaziri, X. Bao, co-author of IEDM 2026 - H. Su et al.)
Applied Materials (M. Patel, M. Pesic, co-author of IEDM 2026 - H. Su et al.)
Samsung Electronics, Logic TD (K. Yang, co-author of IEDM 2025 - Y.S. Song et al.)
X-Fab (A. K. Upadhyay, co-author of IEEE TED 2022 - S. Tayal, Y.S. Song* et al.)
Synopsys (S. Tayal, co-author of IEEE TED 2022 - S. Tayal, Y.S. Song* et al.)
Closing Remarks
I worked as a faculty member for three years before earning my Ph.D., teaching a variety of courses and meeting and mentoring many different types of students. If there is one thing I have learned so far, it is that there is no single right answer when it comes to how to teach or how to mentor students.
I am still learning. Although there is no single, fixed answer to the methodology of teaching and mentoring students, I live each day believing that if I treat my students sincerely, if I treat the person in front of me sincerely, I will eventually come a little closer to the right answer. In East Asia, there is a saying, 一期一会, which means a precious encounter that happens only once in a lifetime (somewhat similar to “Opportunity knocks but once” in the West). It is also why I love photography. I try to bring the same sincerity to every student I meet.
To the people I met in the past, the people I am meeting now, and the people I will meet someday: wherever life takes you, I wish you the very best in your journey ahead.
- Young Suh Song
California, October 2026
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