Professor
Research
Interests
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CMOS Analog Integrated Circuit (IC) Design
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Display Driver ICs for LCD/OLED Displays with
Active Non-Uniformity Compensation -
Power Management ICs: LDO Regulator, Switch-Mode DC-DC Converter, and Energy-Harvesting Interfaces
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Low-Noise High-SNR CMOS Readout IC (ROIC)
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Medical (X-ray/CT) CMOS Image Sensors and Photon-Counting Detectors
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Large-Area Electronics (LAEs) with Poly-Si and
a-Si:H TFTs Fabricated on Glass/Plastic Substrates
Hyun-Sik Kim, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Feb. 2011 - Feb. 2014
Academic Advisor: Prof. Gyu-Hyeong Cho
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Feb. 2009 - Feb. 2011
Academic Advisor: Prof. Gyu-Hyeong Cho
B.S. in Electronic Eng., Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Mar. 2005 - Feb. 2009
Graduation as the Campus Valedictorian (Top Rank: 1 of 3,000)
Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Contact Info.
Professional
Experience
Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Korea
Mar. 2022 - Present
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Korea
Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2022
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Display Engineering, Dankook University, Korea
Sept. 2015 - Feb. 2019
Senior Researcher
SAMSUNG Display Co., Ltd., Korea
Mar. 2014 - Aug. 2015
OLED TV Development / OLED Module / LCD Yield Enhancement
E-mail: hyunskim (at) kaist.ac.kr
Tel.: +82-42-350-7457
Location: Rm #4223, E3-2 B/D
Awards
& Honors
Best Teaching Award (EE403, Analog Electronic Circuits)
School of Electrical Engingeering in KAIST, April 2024
KAIST Technology Innovation Award
College of Engingeering in KAIST, Dec. 2022
Best Teaching Award (EE571, Advanced Electronic Circuits)
School of Electrical Engingeering in KAIST, Oct. 2022
IDEC Best Lecture Award
IC Design Education Center (IDEC), June 2021
Best Teaching Award
Dankook University, Feb. 2017
Predoctoral Achievement Award 2013-2014
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, Feb. 2014
Best Student Paper Award of IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Seoul Chapter, May 2014
Gold Medal, 19th SAMSUNG Human-Tech Paper Award
SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd., Feb. 2013
Gold Medal, 18th SAMSUNG Human-Tech Paper Award
SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd., Feb. 2012
Bronze Medal, 17th SAMSUNG Human-Tech Paper Award
SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd., Feb. 2011
Academic
Activities
Senior Member of IEEE (Solid-State Circuits Society)
Distinguished Lecturer (DL), 2024 - 2026
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS)
Guest Editor (GE)
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L) special issue on ISSCC 2024
Technical Program Committee (TPC), 2023 - present
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
Technical Program Committee (TPC), 2021 - present
Power Managements Subcommittee Co-Chair in 2023-204
Session Chair of Power Managements in 2021 - 2023
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
Technical Program Committee (TPC), 2017 - present
Session Chair of Power Managements in 2017 - 2022
IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC)
Organizing Committee (Publication), 2019 - 2020
Technical Program Committee (TPC), 2017 - 2018
RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, IEIE
Technical Reviewers
IEEE JSSC / IEEE TCAS-1 / IEEE TCAS-2 / IEEE JDT / IEEE T.VLSI
IEEE Sensors J. / IEEE J-ESTPE / IEEE TED / JSTS / NIMA / EL / IEEE TIE
Invited
Talks
"Current-Shared Multi-Phase FIVRs with Phase-Shedding-Optimized AC Dynamics"
The 8th International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip (PwrSoC), Hannover, Germany, Sept. 2023
"Advancing Power Management IC assisted by Switched-Capacitor Circuits"
IEEE-CASS Korea-Japan Workshop, KAIST, Korea, Jan. 2023
"Cutting-Edge Design Innovations in Mobile and Micro Display Driver ICs"
Display Solution, System LSI, Samsung Electronics, Hwaseong, Korea, Dec. 2022
Tutorial: "LDO Regulators - From Basics to Recent Design Trends"
IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits (A-SSCC), Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 2022
"IC Design Innovations in Flat-Panel Display Driving System"
Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), Daejeon, Korea, Oct. 2022
"Design of Ultra-Compact and High-Resolution Display Driver ICs"
The 22th RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, IEIE, Jeju, Korea, Sept. 2022
"Recent Trends in Design of Compact and High-Resolution Display Driver ICs"
ChungCheong Display Development Forum (hosted by K-IDS), Dankook Univ., Cheonan, Korea, Aug. 2022
"Advanced Power Management ICs: from ULP IoTs to HPC Datacenter Applications"
Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI), Virtual, Korea, Mar. 2022
"Advancing Power Management IC assisted by Switched-Capacitor Circuits"
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea, Dec. 2021
"Advancing Power Management IC assisted by Switched-Capacitor Circuits"
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Virtual, Nov. 2021
"Technical Trends and Challenges of Photon-Counting Detectors"
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS), Virtual, Aug. 2021
"Advanced Display Driving Techniques with Real-Time Pixel Non-Uniformity Compensation for Long-Life OLED TVs"
International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) 2020, Virtual, Aug. 2020
"OLED Display Driving Technique with Real-Time Pixel Nonuniformity Compensation"
Optics & Photonics Taiwan, International Conference (OPTIC) 2019, Taichung, Taiwan, Dec. 2019
"Design of OLED Driver ICs for High-Quality Displays"
Analog/Power IC Design Workshop (IEIE), Pangyo, May 2019
"Design Innovations in CMOS Driver Integrated Circuits for LCD and OLED Displays: from High Color-Depth LCD to OLED-Uniformity Compensation"
Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI), Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA, Nov. 2018
"Piezoelectric and Photovoltaic Energy-Harvesting Circuits"
Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Daejeon, Sept. 2017