Wisconsin Embedded Systems and Computing Laboratory

Younghyun Kim

Assistant Professor
Grainger Institute for Engineering Faculty Scholar

Email: younghyun.kim@wisc.edu
Office: 4613 Engineering Hall
Phone: (608) 262-6419

Biography

Prof. Younghyun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he leads the Wisconsin Embedded Systems and Computing (WISEST) Lab. Prof. Kim is interested in low-power embedded systems, secure and reliable cyber physical systems, and mobile computing systems.

Before joining UW-Madison, Prof. Kim did postdoctoral research at Purdue University (2013–2016). He did his graduate work at Seoul National University and received Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2013 and B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2007. His Ph.D. dissertation won the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the European Design and Automation Association in 2013.

Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Sept. 2016 – present
  • 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

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, 2013
  • B.S. in Computer Science Engineering, Seoul National University, 2007

Awards and Honors

  • ISLPED Low-Power Design Contest Award, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2018
    for “AxSerBus: A Quality-Configurable Approximate Serial Bus for Energy-Efficient Sensing”
  • Best Demonstration Award, SIGDA University Demonstration at Design Automation Conference, 2018
    for “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
    for “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
    for “TeleProbe: Zero-power Contactless Probing for Implantable Medical Devices”
  • EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, European Design and Automation Association, 2013
    for “Design and Runtime Optimizations of Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage Systems”
    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
    for “First-Generation Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage System”
  • ISOCC IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter Award, International SoC Design Conference, 2009
    for “Model Variable Reduction Technique for High-Level Energy Estimation with an Accuracy Constraint”
  • SoC Design Contest Winner, Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea, 2008
    for “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
    for “A Fuel-Cell-Battery Hybrid Platform for Portable Embedded Systems”

Students’ Awards and Honors

  • Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, Tianen Chen, 2018
  • Chancellor’s Opportunity Fellowship, Setareh Behroozi, 2018
  • Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Student Scholarship,  Setareh Behroozi, 2018
  • A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellowship, Jingjie Li, 2018
  • Moon-Jung Chung Scholarship, Yongwoo Lee, 2017
  • Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, Kyuin Lee, 2017
  • A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellowship, Setareh Behroozi, 2017

Professional Service

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

  • SigDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC (Design Automation Conference), 2019
  • DAC (Design Automation Conference), 2018 – 2019
  • SAC (Symposium on Applied Computing), 2018 – 2019
  • VLSID (International Conference on VLSI Design), 2017 – 2019
  • ASP-DAC (Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference), 2017 – 2019
  • ISLPED (International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design), 2015 – 2019
  • Ph.D. Forum at DATE (Design Automation and Test in Europe), 2014 – 2016