Jun Gi Lee
Jun Gi Lee joined the lab in March, 2019, as a master’s program student. He majored in Mechatronics Engineering from Chungnam National University. He received the master’s degree in electrical engineering from UNIST in February 2021, with a thesis titled “NP-CGRA: Extending CGRAs for Efficient Processing of Light-weight Deep Neural Networks.” After graduation, he joined ElroiLab, a startup in Seoul specializing in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and robotics.
Hyeonuk Sim
Hyeonuk Sim joined the lab in March, 2015 as a master-Ph.D combined degree program. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea, in 2015 and 2021, respectively.
He is currently working as a Staff Researcher with the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon 16678, South Korea. His research interests include energy-efficient accelerator design for specific fields, such as artificial neural networks and stochastic computing.
He won the Naver Ph.D. fellowship in 2017.
Segi Lee
Segi Lee joined the lab in September, 2018 as a master student. He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering from UNIST. His research interests include digital hardware chip/FPGA design and implementation for deep learning.
In July 2020 he joined Satrec Initiative Co., Ltd., a space and aviation technology company, in Daejon, Korea, in the Defense Systems Division, as a hardware engineer.
Jooyeon Choi
Jooyeon Choi joined the lab in September, 2018 as a master student. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea, in 2018 and 2021, respectively.
She is currently working as a hardware designer with DeepInSight, Seongnam-si 13449, South Korea. Her current research interests include deep neural network processing and accelerator hardware.
Giju Jung
Giju Jung joined the lab in August, 2018 as a master student. He received the BSc degree from UNIST with his first major in Computer Engineering, his second major in Biotechnology. His research interests include neuromorphic computing systems and efficient deep learning.
After graduation he joined 3View.Com Inc., Suwon-si, South Korea, as an engineer specialized in AI.
Aidyn Zhakatayev
Aidyn Zhakatayev started his M.S. program in September, 2016. He majored in EE with a double major in CSE from UNIST, which should give him a perfect background for his research into various aspects of stochastic computing and deep neural networks. He enjoys football, and is from Kazakstan.
He is the first author of a paper presented at Design Automation Conference, June 2018. After graduation he joined Deeplite, an AI-driven deep neural network optimizer company, in Montréal, Canada.
Daewoo Kim
Daewoo Kim joined the lab in August, 2016 for his M.S. program staring in Fall, 2016. He has a CS background but is also very competent in various areas of hardware design including processor design, accelerator design for emerging application such as deep learning, and high level synthesis.
After graduation he joined LG Electronics, in the Home Appliance Division, in Guro-gu, Seoul, Korea.
Atul Rahman
Atul Rahman is a graduate student, beginning his M.S. program in September, 2014. His research interests include high-level synthesis and approximate/stochastic computing.
He won the Samsung HumanTech Award in 2016, and is the first author of two papers presented in the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, in 2016 and 2017. In 2016 he joined Samsung Electronics, in Suwon, Korea.
Hongsik Lee
Hongsik Lee entered UNIST in March, 2014. He worked on the problem of model-driven application mapping for CGRA processors resulting in a publication in DAC.
In 2016 he joined Busan Transportation Corporation (Humetro), Busan, Korea, in the Department of Signal & Communication as a design engineer.
Dong Nguyen
Dong Nguyen entered UNIST in March, 2014. He has co-authored many papers in the area of deep learning and compiler, including one he presented as the first author in the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), held in Barcelona, March 2016.