Honors
2022 IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
IEEE EDS (see IEEE EDS webpage)
Jun. 2023Ph.D. Outstanding Dissertation Award
School of EE, KAIST (see KAIST EE web)
Jan. 20232021 IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) Best Paper Award
IEEE EDS (see TSM May 2022 vol.35 Editoral)
Feb. 20222022 SPIE Nick Cobb Memorial Scholarship
SPIE, $10,000 scholarship (see SPIE News)
Jan. 2022Young Fellow at 58th Design Automation Conference (DAC)
ACM SIGDA
Dec. 20212020 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) Best Paper Award Candidate
ACM SIGDA
Aug. 2020Excellence Award at SK hynix Semconductor Open Idea Contest
SK hynix, $18,000 cash award (see SK hynix Newsroom, in Korean)
Nov. 2019Richard Newton Young Fellow at 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC)
ACM SIGDA
Jun. 2019
Reviewer Activities
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
IEEE CEDA
2022 - 2025TPC Member of ASP-DAC
ACM SIGDA
2025, 2026ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
ACM SIGDA
2025TPC Member of DAC Ph.D. Forum
ACM SIGDA
2023 - 2025Optics Express
Optica (former OSA)
2023International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)
ACM SIGDA
2023
Invited Talks
Tutorial Talk at Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
ACM SIGDA
Jan. 2024Invited Presentation at Korean International Semiconductor Conf. on Manufacturing Technology
KSDT
Nov. 2023Next Generation Lithography (NGL) Short Course Series Lecturer
Optical Society of Korea (OSK) (see NGL short course web)
Jun. 2023Invited Talk at Samsung Electronics System LSI Division
Samsung Electronics
Apr. 2022Invited Presentation at Optical Society Korea Summer Meeting
Optical Society of Korea (OSK)
Jul. 2020Invited Presentation at 2019 Next Generation Lithography Conference
Optical Society of Korea (OSK)
Aug. 2019Invited Talk at SK hynix R&D Center
SK hynix
Jul. 2019