Title
Associate Professor
Education
B.S., Seoul National University, 2007
Ph.D., Seoul National University, 2013
Prior Appointments
Associate Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, Jan. 2024 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Jul. 2023 – Dec. 2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Sep. 2016 – Jun. 2023
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, Oct. 2013 – Jun. 2016
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Mar. 2013 – Sept. 2013
Research Areas
Embedded computing systems, Internet-of-Things, System-on-chip and VLSI, Low-power systems
Key Areas
Embedded computing systems, Internet-of-Things, System-on-chip and VLSI, Low-power systems
Notable Experience
Journal/Transaction Editor
Elsevier the VLSI Journal on Integration, Special Issue on Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2018
Technical Program Committee
Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) Special Session on Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems (SPCPS), 2020–2021
SigDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (Design Automation Conference), 2019–2023
DAC (Design Automation Conference), 2018–2020; DAC LBR (Late Breaking Results) 2020
SAC (Symposium on Applied Computing), 2018–2020
VLSID (International Conference on VLSI Design), 2017–2019
ASP-DAC (Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference), 2017–2019, 2023
ISLPED (International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design), 2015–2019
Ph.D. Forum at DATE (Design Automation and Test in Europe), 2014–2016
Notable Awards
ECE Faculty Service Award, 2022
Facebook Research Award, 2021
“Usable privacy control for real-time eye tracking in AR/VR”
IWSL Programming Contest 1st Place, 2021
ECE Outstanding Graduate Student Mentoring Award, 2021
IEEE Micro Top Pick, 2020
“uGEMM: Unary Computing Architecture for GEMM Applications” ISCA 2020
Grainger Faculty Scholar Award, Grainger Institute for Engineering, 2020
NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2019
“Beyond Approximate Computing: Enabling Full-System Energy-Quality Scalability in Embedded Systems”
Best Presentation Award, KOCSEA Technical Symposium, 2018
“Full-System Quality-Configurable Approximate Computing”
3rd Place Poster Award, US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology, 2018
“Micro- and Nano-Sensors for IoT Security”
ISLPED Low-Power Design Contest Award, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2018
“AxSerBus: A Quality-Configurable Approximate Serial Bus for Energy-Efficient Sensing”
Best Demonstration Award, SIGDA University Demonstration at Design Automation Conference, 2018
“CamPUF: Physically Unclonable Function based on CMOS Image Sensor Fixed Pattern Noise”
ISLPED Low-Power Design Contest Award, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2017
“TeleProbe: Zero-power Contactless Probing for Implantable Medical Devices”
Grainger Faculty Scholar Award, Grainger Institute for Engineering, 2017
ISLPED Best Paper Finalist, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2016
“TeleProbe: Zero-power Contactless Probing for Implantable Medical Devices”
EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, European Design and Automation Association, 2013
“Design and Runtime Optimizations of Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage Systems” in category: New Directions in Logic and System Design
BK21 Excellent Research Award, Seoul National University Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Division of Information Technology, 2012
ISLPED Low-Power Design Contest Award, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2012
“First-Generation Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage System”
ISOCC IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter Award, International SoC Design Conference, 2009
“Model Variable Reduction Technique for High-Level Energy Estimation with an Accuracy Constraint”
SoC Design Contest Winner, Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea, 2008
“Power Estimation using On-Chip Bus Monitor”
Seoul Fellowship, Seoul Metropolitan Government, 2008
ISLPED Low-Power Design Contest Award, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2007
“A Fuel-Cell-Battery Hybrid Platform for Portable Embedded Systems”
Biography
Prof. Younghyun Kim is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to Purdue, he led the Wisconsin Embedded Systems and Computing (WISEST) Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining UW-Madison, Prof. Kim was a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Purdue University (2013–2016). He did his graduate work at Seoul National University and received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2013 and B.S. degree (highest honor) in Computer Science and Engineering in 2007. His Ph.D. dissertation won the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award (2013). He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2019).