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[Prof. Jae-Woong Jeong, Ph.D. Candidate Simok Lee from left]

 

 

[Awards Ceremony, MRS Meeting Chair Prof. Tae-woo Lee, Ph.D. Candidate Simok Lee, Prof. Jae-Woong Jeong from left]

 

 

Professor  Joonil Choi and Hyun Myung have been selected as ‘Distinguished Lecturer’ by the Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and will serve as ‘Distinguished Lecturers’ for two years until 2025. 

IEEE VTS is the world’s largest academic society in the electronic engineering related to moving objects. VTS selects some researchers over the world who leads the field, and selects them as ‘Distinguished Lecturer’ to give the opportunity to give a lecture to over 90 chapters over the world. Through this opportunity, students of the academy can learn about current research trend and result, along with the chance to directly communicate with the distinguished lecturers.

Professor Joonil Choi, whose research is based on next-generation wireless communication technology, will present ‘Communication System Using Machine Learning”. Hyun Myung, whose research is based on robot autonomous driving, will present ‘Robot Autonmous Drivings: Core Technologies and Applications’. 

Once again, congratulations and thanks for being selected as IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer.

 

 

KAIST  enables ultra-high resolution micro LED technology with 40% lower heat generation

 

– Demonstrates that epitaxial structure modification technology can fundamentally solve the problem of device efficiency degradation, and is expected to contribute significantly to the commercialization of ultra-high resolution micro LED displays.

 

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Professor Hoi-Jun Yoo is Recognized as a Leading Contributor of Semiconductor Design at ISSCC

 

– Selected as the only Asian out of the top 5 contributors at the 70th anniversary ceremony of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

– Undertaking active research for the advancement of Korean memory industry and system semiconductor technology, including the development of artificial intelligence semiconductors (AI semiconductors)

 

[Professor Hoi-Jun Yoo receives the ISSCC Author-Recognition Award (left) and the Author-Recognition Award plaque (right)]

 

Professor Hoi-Jun Yoo has been recognized as one of the top 5 leading contributors with more than 63 presented papers, and is the only Asian to be selected as such. Professor Yoo developed the world’s first 256M SDRAM at Hyundai Electronics (now SK Hynix) 41 years after the establishment of ISSCC, and published his achievements at the same conference, becoming the first Korean scholar to do so.

Professor Yoo’s research team has since then moved to KAIST and has published 62 papers from 2000 to 2023, leading to a combined total of 63 papers published at the conference. “DRAM Design”, a book written by Professor Yoo in 1996, was selected as must-read book for Samsung Electronics and Hynix engineers.

In addition, Professor Yoo presented five papers on DRAM-related semiconductors, 26 papers on semiconductors for biomedical and low-power wireless communication chips, and 14 papers on wearable semiconductors for augmented reality (AR). In particular, Professor Yoo started his research on artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors since 2008 and has presented a total of 18 papers related to this field, including work on the world’s first DNN accelerator in 2014.

In addition, he was the first Asian professor to be invited as an ISSCC keynote speaker related to AI semiconductors in 2019. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor with 10 leading speakers were selected from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electron Devices Society/Solid-State Circuits Society (EDS/SSCS) to commemorate this historical moment, and Professor Yoo was selected as one of them.

In addition, this year marks the 60th anniversary of the invention of MOSFET which is a critical component of semiconductor manufacturing, and Professor Yoo was awarded the Dawon Kahng Award in honor of Dr.Dawon Kahng, the inventor of MOSFET, at the Korean Conference on Semiconductors on February 14 of this year.

 

EE Professor Hyunchul Shim’s research team has entered into a partnership agreement with Hyundai Motors on February 23rd for “High-Speed Autonomous Driving Technology Research.”

Under this agreement, Hyundai Motors will provide research funding to KAIST, while KAIST will share specialized knowledge and experience related to high-speed autonomous driving technology, and provide cooperation in promotion. 

 

The signing ceremony took place at Rolling Hills Hotel in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, and was attended by key personnel, including Naksup Sung, Executive of Hyundai Motors, and Professor Hyunchul Shim and his research team from KAIST. 

 

Naksup Sung, the head of Hyundai Motors’ Research and Development Management Planning Division, said, “We expect that research on high-speed autonomous driving based on this partnership will not only improve the safety and performance of high-speed vehicles but also general autonomous driving vehicles.” He added, “We will support KAIST Professor Shim’s team, the first to step up to the global stage in this field within Asia, despite many difficulties.” 

 

Professor Shim said, “It is an honor to receive support from Hyundai Motors, who has been making efforts to expand domestic autonomous driving technology through continuous support for domestic competitions and research at various universities since 2010.” He added, “I expect that we will achieve even better results at competitions to be held in Italy and the United States with the support of this partnership.”

 

 

– KAIST Racing Team participating in the Indy Autonomous Challenge @ CES 2023 (Team Leader: Sungwon Na, Team Members: Seongwoo Moon, Hyunwoo Nam, Chanhoe Ryu, Jaeyoung Kang)

 

– Nine teams that competed at the first Indy Autonomous Challenge on October 23, 2021. (KAIST team is the right most team in the front row) 

 

 

 

 

Professor Hoi-Jun Yoo is a world-renowned expert in the field of semiconductor and developed the world’s first 256-mega SD RAM, successfully laying the foundation of AI semiconductor.

He contributed to the development of intelligent visual processors, neural network processing units (NPUs), and neuromorphic processors before deep neural network (DNN) started to gain attention. He specifically applied a neuron network-like network to intelligent visual processors to reduce power consumption, dramatically improving the energy efficiency and computation performance.

He also developed DNN-based NPU that is essential for object recognition and natural language processing and thus revolutionized the market for low-power AI semiconductor. Professor Hoi-Jun Yoo was the first Asian to give a keynote speech at the International Solid State Circuit Society (ISSCC) in 2019 in recognition of his research achievements.

In addition, the ‘PIM Semiconductor Design Research Center’ was established last year to lead the development of processing-in-memory (PIM) technology through the cooperation with companies and academia.

 

Professor Byung-Jin Cho discovered the semiconductor soft-breakdown (SBD) phenomenon for the first time and revealed its mechanism. Soft breakdown is an insulation breakdown phenomenon in which leakage current flows through a semiconductor gate insulating film and adversely affects the function of the gate insulating film and semiconductor.

Professor Byung-Jin Cho is a world-renowned authority in the field of High dielectric substrates, whose demand is increasing as the materials are replacing the silicon oxide insulating films.

Professor Byung-Jin Cho contributed to the development of semiconductor by applying the high dielectric substrates to charge trap-type memory for the first time. Along with SK Hynix and Jusung Engineering, he also contributed to the development of DRAM products that are equipped with high dielectric. He has published more than 600 papers in the field of semiconductor.

 

Dr. Daewon Kahng developed for the first time ‘MOSFET (Metal Oxide Film Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor)’, which has been established as the standard in semiconductor transistors. He contributed to the miniaturization of semiconductor transistors and mass production. Furthermore, he participated in the development of floating gates, a core technology for NAND flash memory.