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General Information

Full Name Jonghyun Kim
Date of Birth 7th April 1997
Languages English, Korean, Deutsch(Basic)

Education

  • 2024-
    Ph.D in ECE
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    • Research on hardware security
  • 2022-2024
    M.S in EE
    Konkuk University, Seoul, Repulic of Korea
    • Research on ultra high-speed mixed-signal circuits
    • Research on security circuits
  • 2016-2022
    B.S in EE
    Konkuk University, Seoul, Repulic of Korea
    • Admission with top-honors

Tape-out Experience

  • 2022 DEC
    Chip-lead
    Konkuk University
    • Chip-lead tape-out project on 40-GS/s, 32-Channel TI-SAR ADC for PAM-4 SerDes Receiver
  • 2022 JUN
    Chip-lead
    Konkuk University
    • Chip-lead tape-out project on 6-bit pipelined SAR ADC
  • 2021 SEP
    Chip-lead
    Konkuk University
    • Chip-lead tape-out project on high-performance true random number generator(TRNG)
  • 2020 SEP
    Chip-lead
    Konkuk University
    • Chip-lead tape-out project on full-custom SRAM for high-speed analog-to-digital converter(ADC)
  • 2023 AUG
    Chip-support
    Konkuk University
    • Chip-support tape-out project on ultra-low power bootstrapped sample and hold circuit design for SAR ADC
  • 2021 DEC
    Chip-support
    Konkuk University
    • Chip-support tape-out project on digital-calibration circuit design and custom layout support for time-interleaved(TI) bandpass noise-shaping SAR ADC
  • 2021 APR
    Chip-support
    Konkuk University
    • Chip-support tape-out project on CIC decimation filter and digital-calibration circuit design for noise-shaping successive-approximation register(SAR) ADC

Research Support Experience

  • 2021 JUN
    PDK Setup
    • Experience with 28nm CMOS Process Design Kit(PDK) setup
  • 2020 NOV
    System controller RTL IP design
    • Developed a high electron mobility transistor(HEMT) based gas-sensor controller
  • 2020 MAR
    DWA RTL IP design
    • Developed a data weighted averaging(DWA) Verilog-RTL IP for oversample ADCs

Work Experiences

  • 2018-2020
    R&D intern @ ARTEC IT Solutions APAC
    Seoul, Korea
    • C#(.NET) development based on Windows WPF(xaml) application development environment
    • Experience in E-Mail archiving system management
    • SAP unstructured data archiving system build based on SAP Archive Link
    • Experience in Debian-based Linux server management
  • 2018-2019
    R&D intern @ ARTEC IT Solutions AG
    Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
    • C#(.NET) development based on Windows WPF(xaml) application development environment
    • SAP unstructured data archiving system build based on SAP Archive Link
    • Microsoft Exchange and Hyper-V based server management

Teaching Experiences

  • 2020
    Engineering Mathematics
    Konkuk University
    • Mentored students on engineering mathematics, focusing on signal processing
  • 2022
    Senior Design Project
    Konkuk University
    • Teaching on EDA tool(Cadence Virtuoso) usage and two-stage Op-Amp design

Research Projects

  • 2022-
    PIM Semiconductor Design Research Center
    Ministry of Science and ICT
  • 2020-
    Ultra-high Speed Analog-Digital Converter with Configurable Passband for Low Power/Small Beyond-5G Wireless Receiver
    Ministry of Science and ICT
  • 2020-2022
    Multi-band Receiver Architecture using Bandpass ADC for Low-power and Small-size 5G Mobile Applications
    Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center for Future Technology

Honors and Awards

  • 2016, 2019-2021
    Undergraduate Fellowship
    • Admission with honors
    • Full tuition granted
  • 2020
    Hyundai MOBIS CEO Award
    • Embedded Software Contest(Self-driving Car)
    • Developed various algorithms using C++ based openCV
  • 2020
    Mentoring Scholarship
    • This scholarship is granted for metoring undergraduate students
    • Mentors are only accepted with high-grades in engineering-mathematics
  • 2021
    Dream Semester Project Scholarship
    • This scholarship is granted for students who participated dream semester
    • In this project, I proceeded with TRNG design project
  • 2021
    Research for Undergraduate Students(RUS) Scholarship
    • This scholarship is granted for students who participated RUS program
    • I participated as an undergraduate student researcher
  • 2022
    Research for Undergraduate Students(RUS) Mentor Scholarship
    • This scholarship is granted for students who mentored RUS students
    • I participated as a mentor for undergraduate student researhcer
  • 2022-2023
    Graduate Fellowship
    • This fellowship is granted for excellent undergraduate students
    • Tuition is granted for 2-year full semesters

Hobbies

  • French Horn 📯, Trumpet 🎺, Trombone, Violin 🎻
  • Baseball ⚾️