Professor
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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
• 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
Academy Research Fellowship,
Principal Investigator (PI)
2026 ~ 2030
• "HolistIC: Analog-Digital-Algorithm Co-Optimized System-on-Chip for Intelligent Audio IoT Sensors"
• Ranked 1st in the Communications Engineering and Electronics panel
• Research Council of Finland 🇫🇮
• €999,998
• Ranked 1st in the Communications Engineering and Electronics panel
• Research Council of Finland 🇫🇮
• €999,998
Event Hosting Grant,
Organizer
2025 ~ 2026
Young Professionals Mentoring Program Award
2026
• IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Demo Session Award,
Co-Recipient
2025
Travel Grant,
Supervisor
2025
• Yu Xue (IEEE NEWCAS), Zhenhan Wang (IEEE BioCAS)
• $1,300
• $1,300
Postdoc Grant,
PI
2023
• University of Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
• CHF 115,276 (€119,651)
• 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)
• Samsung Electronics, South Korea 🇰🇷
• KRW 11,000,000 (€7,719)
Service
Technical Committee
• IEEE CICC Biomedical Technologies and Applications
2026 ~
• IEEE AICAS Neuromorphic Circuits and Systems Track (Co-Chair)
2026 ~
• IEEE CASS Sensory Systems (ISCAS Committee)
2023 ~
• IEEE SSCS Open-Source Ecosystem
2023 ~ 2025
Guest Editor
2023
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, TVLSI, SSC-L, TIM, Sensors Journal
• IEEE ISCAS 2023-2024, APCCAS 2022
Review Committee Member
• IEEE ISCAS 2025, BioCAS 2026
Organizer / Lead
2025 ~ 2026
Other Activities
• Deputy Member, Degree Programme Committee for Electronics and Nanotechnology (MSc), Aalto University
2026 ~
• Member, Korea Technology Advisory Group (K-TAG)
2025 ~
• Senior Member, IEEE
2025 ~
• Co-Director, Aalto Microelectronics Research Center (METKA)
2024 ~
• Co-Organizer, IEEE SSCS Women in Circuits event in IEEE ISSCC
2022 ~
• Volunteer, IEEE Swiss Women in CAS-ED Symposium
2022