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)
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Contact Info.
Professional
Experience
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Korea
Mar. 2019 - Present
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
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
Member of IEEE (Solid-State Circuits Society)
Technical Program Committee (TPC), 2021 - present
IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
Technical Program Committee (TPC), 2017 - present
Session Chair of Power Managements in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
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 Reviewer
IEEE JSSC / IEEE TCAS-1 / IEEE TCAS-2 / IEEE JDT / IEEE T.VLSI
IEEE Sensors J. / IEEE J-ESTPE / IEEE TED / JSTS / NIMA / EL
Invited
Talks
"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
"ISSCC 2019 Review Workshop: Power Converters"
IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter, Ewha Womans Univ., Seoul, May 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
"Design of Low-Dropout (LDO) Regulator Circuits"
IC Design Education Center (IDEC), KAIST, Daejeon, 2018 - 2019
"Low Noise Design in Large-Area Optical Imager Electronics"
HiDeep Inc., Pangyo, June 2018
"Piezoelectric and Photovoltaic Energy-Harvesting Circuits"
Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Daejeon, Sept. 2017
"ISSCC 2017 Review Workshop: DC-DC Converters and Digital Regulators"
IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter, Ewha Womans Univ., Seoul, May 2017
"LED Control IC and Energy-Harvesting Technologies for IoT Platform"
Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Daejeon, May 2017
"R&D Trend Seminar: Open the door to Photon-Counting Detector"
Rayence Co., Ltd., Hwaseong, Aug. 2016