Professor

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Kwantae Kim

IEEE Senior Member


Employment

Aalto University
Assistant Professor
Aug 2024 ~
Finland 🇫🇮
• Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering

ETH Zurich
Established Researcher
2023 ~ 2024
Switzerland 🇨🇭
• Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET)

UZH/ETH Zurich
Postdoctoral Researcher
2021 ~ 2023
Switzerland 🇨🇭
• Institute of Neuroinformatics

Healthrian Co., Ltd.
R&D Researcher
2015 ~ 2017
South Korea 🇰🇷



Education

KAIST
PhD
2021
South Korea 🇰🇷
• School of Electrical Engineering

UZH/ETH Zurich
Visiting Student
2020
Switzerland 🇨🇭
• Institute of Neuroinformatics

KAIST
MSc
2017
South Korea 🇰🇷
• School of Electrical Engineering
• Ranked 1st (1/152) in Entrance Examination

KAIST
BSc
2015
South Korea 🇰🇷
• School of Electrical Engineering

UC Berkeley
Summer Session
2013
United States 🇺🇸
• Mathematics



Grants / Awards

Event Hosting Grant
Organizer
2025
Korea-Finland Chip Design Symposium
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Korea 🇰🇷
• $6,800

Travel Grant
Supervisor
2025
• Yu Xue (IEEE NEWCAS), Zhenhan Wang (IEEE BioCAS)
• $1,300

Postdoc Grant
PI
2023
• University of Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
• CHF 115,276 (€119,651)

Best Poster Award
Co-Recipient
2023

Silver Award
Main Recipient
2019
• HumanTech Paper Competition
• Samsung Electronics, South Korea 🇰🇷
• KRW 11,000,000 (€7,719)



Service

Technical Committee
• IEEE CASS Sensory Systems
2023 ~
• IEEE SSCS Open-Source Ecosystem
2023 ~ 2024

Guest Editor

Reviewer
• IEEE ISSCC 2026 Next Generation Circuit Designer Workshop
• IEEE ISSCC 2025 Code-a-Chip Travel Grant
• IEEE ISSCC 2024 Rising Starts Workshop
• IEEE JSSC, TBioCAS, TCAS-I, TCAS-II, TCASAI, SSC-L, TIM, Sensors Journal
• IEEE ISCAS 2023-2024, APCCAS 2022

Organizer / Lead

Other Activities
• Co-Organizer, IEEE SSCS Women in Circuits event in IEEE ISSCC
2022 ~
• Volunteer, IEEE Swiss Women in CAS-ED Symposium
2022