Publications
Award & Granted
2025
Donghyun Youn, Woongro Youn, Yechan Park, Bronze Prize, the 31st Samsung Humantech Paper Award, for a paper entitled “A PM-SAR Hybrid Capacitance-to-Digital Converter with pF-to-nF Input and μs-to-ms Sensing for Wide Application,” Feb. 2025.
Jongyoon Choi, Best Research Achievement Award, 2024 Kim Choong-Ki Award, Mar. 2025.
Yechan Park, KAIST Global Leadership Award (Challenge), Feb. 2025.
Yechan Park, Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-doctoral Achievement Award 2024-2025, Feb. 2025.
2024
Edward Jongyoon Choi and Vincent Lukito, Corporate Special Award (Telechips), the 25th Korea Semiconductor Design Challenge, for a design entry entitled "Spike Sorting SoC with Delta-based Detection and Analog CIM-based Autoencoder Neural Network Feature Extraction Achieving 94.54% Accuracy", Oct. 2024.
Hyungjoo Cho, Special Prize (IEEE-SSCS Seoul Chapter), 2024 IDEC Congress Chip Design Contest (CDC), for a paper entitled "An Electromagnetic Energy Harvester with Single Passive Component Tuning Duty-Modulated Maximum-Power-Point-Tracking", Aug. 2024.
Edward Jongyoon Choi and Vincent Lukito, Best Paper Award, ISE 2024 Summer Annual Conference, for a paper entitled “Spike Sorting SoC using Analog CIM Autoencoder Neural Network Feature Extraction and Delta Spike Detection”, Jul. 2024.
Song-I Cheon and Haidam Choi, Best Design Award, 2024 IDEC Congress Chip Design Contest (CDC), for a paper entitled "A Two-Electrode Bio-Impedance Readout IC with Complex-Domain Noise-Correlated Baseline Cancellation", Jul. 2024.
Sunglim Han, Best Paper Award in the Biomedical and Life Science Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Track, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), for a paper entitled “A 72-Channel Resistive-Sensor Interface IC with High Energy Efficiency and a Wide Input Range”, May 2024.
Jimin Koo, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Student Travel Grant 2024, May 2024.
Haidam Choi, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Student Travel Grant 2024 (ISCAS), May 2024.
Yoontae Jung, Best Research Achievement Award, 2023 Kim Choong-Ki Award, Apr. 2024.
Song-I Cheon, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Student Travel Grant 2024, Feb. 2024.
Yoontae Jung, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award 2023-2024, Feb. 2024.
Donghyun Youn, CDC Best Design Award, the 31st Korean Conference on Semiconductors, for a paper entitled "Design Points of Period-modulation Capacitance-to-digital Converter for Continuous Glucose Monitoring System", Jan. 2024.
Donghyun Youn, Best Paper Award in the S. Chip Design Contest Track, for a paper entitled "Design Points of Period-modulation Capacitance-to-digital Converter for Continuous Glucose Monitoring System", Jan. 2024.
2023
Gichan Yun, Best Paper Award, the 23rd RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, for a paper entitled “A 2pA/√Hz Current Conveyor-assisted Ultrasound Receiver with 25-pF CMUT Parasitic Capacitance”, Sep. 2023.
Best Laboratory Award, the 23rd RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, Sep. 2023.
Seoyoung Lee, Encouragement Prize, Center for Biomedical System Semiconductor Chip Design Contest (CDC), Aug. 2023.
Dong-Hwi Choi, Encouragement Prize, Center for Biomedical System Semiconductor Chip Design Contest (CDC), Aug. 2023.
Gichan Yun, Encouragement Prize, Center for Biomedical System Semiconductor Chip Design Contest (CDC), Aug. 2023.
Haidam Choi, Excellence Prize, Center for Biomedical System Semiconductor Chip Design Contest (CDC), Aug. 2023.
Yoontae Jung, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Student Travel Grant 2023 (ISCAS), Jul. 2023.
2022
Minkyu Je, 해동반도체공학상, The Institute of Semiconductor Engineers (ISE), Dec. 2022
Edward Jongyoon Choi, IEEE CASS Paper Award, the 5th Annual Conference of ISE, Dec. 2022.
Best Laboratory Award, the 22nd RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, Sep. 2022.
Ji-Hoon Suh, Best Student Paper Award (Winner), the 22nd RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, for a paper entitled “A Battery-less Electrochemical Sensing System Based on Intra-Body Power Transfer,” Sep. 2022.
Injun Choi, Sponsor Company Award (Point2Tehcnology), the 22nd RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, 2022, for a paper entitled “An eFlash-Based Computation-in-Memory for Edge Computing,” Sep. 2022.
Edward Jongyoon Choi, Workshop Organizer Award (Kangwon University), the 22nd RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, 2022, for a paper entitled “Bit-Configurable Pulse Train SRAM IMC Macro for Edge devices,” Sep. 2022.
Haidam Choi, Workshop Organizer Award (Qualitas Semiconductor), the 22nd RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, 2022, for a paper entitled “A ∆-∆∑-Based Bio-Impedance Readout IC with Baseline Cancellation,” Sep. 2022.
Kyeongwon Jeong, Best Design Award, IDEC Chip Design Contest (CDC), for a paper entitled "A 20-MHz 2.3-MW Ultrasound Receiver and a High-voltage Transmitter for Ultrasound Capsule Endoscopy," Jul. 2022.
2021
Best Student Paper Award (Winner), IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2021, for a paper entitled “A 5.7μW/Channel Folded-Current-Mirror-Based Reconfigurable Multimodal Neural Recording IC with Improved Hardware Availability,” May 2021.
Bronze Prize, the 27th Samsung Humantech Paper Award, for a paper entitled “A Frequency-Splitting-Based Wireless Power and Data Transfer IC for Neural Prostheses,” Feb. 2021.
2020
Best Student Paper Award (Runner-Up), IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2020, for a paper entitled “Double-High-Pass-Filter-Based Electrical-Recording Front-Ends and Fluorescence-Recording Front-Ends for Monitoring Multimodal Neural Activity,” Oct. 2020.
Best Paper Award in the Biomedical and Life Science Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Track, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2020, for a paper entitled “Double-High-Pass-Filter-Based Electrical-Recording Front-Ends and Fluorescence-Recording Front-Ends for Monitoring Multimodal Neural Activity,” Oct. 2020.
2019
Best Laboratory Award, the 19th RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, 2019, Sep. 2019.
Excellent Paper Award, the 19th RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, 2019, for a paper entitled “A Low Power, High CMRR Neural Recording IC with Controllable Gm-Cell,” Sep. 2019.
2018
Best Design Award in the Student Design Contest, IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2018, for a paper entitled “A 3.9mW, 81.3dB SNDR, DC-coupled, Time-based Neural Recording IC with Degeneration R-DAC for Bidirectional Neural Interface in 180nm CMOS,” Nov. 2018.
Best Paper Award, International SoC Design Conference, 2018, for a paper entitled “A 4.86 μW/Channel Fully Differential Multi-Channel Neural Recording System,” Nov. 2018.
Excellent Paper Award in the Field of Analog Design, the 15th Korean Conference on Semiconductors, 2018, for a paper entitled “A 16-Channel Implantable Neural Recording System,” May 2018.
Excellent Paper Presentation Award, IEIE SoC Conference, 2018, for a paper entitled “A 1V 46nF/10MW Input-Range Digital-Intensive Reconfigurable RC-to-Digital Converter with Parasitic-Insensitive Femto-Farad Baseline Capacitance Sensing in 0.18mm CMOS,” May 2018.
Best Design Award in University Design Contest held in conjunction with the 23rd ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2018, for a paper entitled “An Ultra-Low-Noise Differential Relaxation Oscillator Based on a Swing-Boosting Scheme,” Jan. 2018.
~ 2017
Best Paper Award, the 17th RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, 2017, for a paper entitled “An implantable Multichannel Neural Recording and Stimulation System for Bidirectional Peripheral Nerve Interface,” Sep. 2017.
Excellent Paper Award, the 16th RF/Analog Circuit Workshop, 2016, for a paper entitled “A Neural Recording IC with Self-Adaptive SNR Optimization for Long-Term Implantation,” Sep. 2016.
Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT), 2012, for a paper entitled “ASIC for Wireless Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Based On Applanation Tonometry,” Nov. 2012.
IME Excellence Award, Best Reporting Officer (Merit), 2012, Apr. 2012.
Gold Award in the 1st Chip Design Competition held in conjunction with the 13th International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), 2011, for a paper entitled, “Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Implantable Blood Flow Sensing Microsystem for Vascular Graft Applications,” Dec. 2011.
IME Excellence Award, Research Accomplishment (Merit), 2009, for a research work, “3-D Accelerometer ASIC for High-End Medical Motion Sensing,” Mar. 2009.
The Best Paper of the Year, 2000, for a paper entitled “A Digital TCXO with New Trimming Method,” Telecommunications Review, Dec. 2000.
Second Place in the IEEE Region 10 Post Graduate Student Paper Competition, 1998, for a paper entitled “Fabrication and Characterization of Low Dimensional Quantum Devices: Quantum Wire Transistor and Quantum Dot Memory.”
First Prize in the IEEE Korea Student Paper Contest, 1998, for a paper entitled “A Gate-All-Around Silicon Quantum Wire Transistor with One-Dimensional Subband Effects.”