Principal Investigator (PI)

 Minkyu Je received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. 

 In 2003, he joined Samsung Electronics, Giheung, South Korea, as a Senior Engineer, where he worked on multimode multi-band RF transceiver SoCs for GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA standards. From 2006 to 2013, he was with the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. He worked as a Senior Research Engineer from 2006 to 2007, a Member of Technical Staff from 2008 to 2011, a Senior Scientist in 2012, and a Deputy Director in 2013. From 2011 to 2013, he led the Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory at IME as the Department Head. In IME, he led various projects developing low-power 3-D accelerometer application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for high-end medical motion sensing applications, readout ASICs for nanowire biosensor arrays detecting DNA/RNA and protein biomarkers for point-of-care diagnostics, ultra-low-power sensor node SoCs for continuous real-time wireless health monitoring, and wireless implantable sensor ASICs for medical devices, and low-power radio SoCs and MEMS interface/control SoCs for consumer electronics and industrial applications. He was the Program Director of the NeuroDevices Program under the A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) from 2011 to 2013 and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, from 2010 to 2013. He was an Associate Professor with the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, South Korea, from 2014 to 2015. Since 2016, he has been an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST. He is an editor of one book and an author of six book chapters and has more than 360 peer-reviewed international conference and journal publications in the areas of sensor interface integrated circuit (IC), wireless IC, biomedical microsystem, 3D IC, device modeling, and nanoelectronics. He also has more than 70 patents issued or filed. 

 His main research areas are advanced IC platform development, including smart sensor interface ICs, ultra-low-power wireless communication ICs, high-efficiency energy supply and management ICs, ultra-low-power timing ICs, resource-constrained computing ICs, and microsystem integration leveraging the advanced IC platform for emerging applications, such as intelligent miniature biomedical devices, ubiquitous wireless sensor nodes, and future mobile devices. 

He has served on the Technical Program Committee and the Organizing Committee for various international conferences, symposiums, and workshops, including IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), and IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (SOVC). He has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2020 to 2022.