University of Minnesota

Dr. Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His group has expertise in digital, mixed-signal, and memory circuit design in silicon and beyond-silicon (e.g. flextronics, and spintronics) technologies. He spent a year at Intel Corporation prior to joining the University of Minnesota where he performed research on low power circuit techniques and on-chip leakage current monitors. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Awards, IBM Faculty Partnership Awards, and an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Outstanding Author Award. Dr. Kim has extensive experience in both CMOS circuit design and novel circuit architectures. He has made significant contributions in the area of reliability-aware aging-tolerant circuit designs [1-2], and robust low-voltage analog and mixed-signal circuits [3-4]. Dr. Kim also has several ongoing projects involving the circuit design using novel devices [5-7] and materials including organic TFT circuits, and computation using non-silicon circuit elements including spintronic devices.