Semiconductor System Lab

BIOGRAPHY

Hoi-Jun Yoo is a member of National Academy of Science of Korea, the KAIST ICT Endowed Chair Professor of School of Electrical Engineering and Dean of the AI Semiconductor Graduate School at KAIST. He is also the Director of the PIM Semiconductor Design Research Center (AI-PIM), and the Director of KAIST Institute of IT-AI Convergence. His research focuses on Wearable Healthcare systems, Artificial Intelligence SoC design, High-Speed and Low-Power memory architectures, and processing-in-memory (PIM) circuits. He has published over 200 journal papers and more than 400 conference papers in these areas. Prior to joining KAIST as a professor in 1998, he worked for Bell Communications Research developing VCSELs for Optical Neural Network. He is a Fellow of IEEE, has served as an AdCom member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society since 2022, the TPC Chair of ISSCC, and the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC).

Prof. Yoo has been at the forefront of semiconductor and system design innovation, with his group’s research on physical-AI accelerators integrated into mobile XR/Robotic SoCs. His achievements have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Kyung Ahm Scholarship Award (2014), the KAIST Grand Prize for Academic Excellence (2019), multiple IEEE Best Paper Awards, and Top 5 Paper Contributor in 70 years of ISSCC in 2023, and Top 10 Paper Contributor in 60 years of ISSCC in 2013.