University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
Jul 2026 - Present
Visiting Graduate Scholar · ABKGroup (VLSI CAD Lab.)
On-site · La Jolla, CA · Supervisor: Prof. Andrew B. Kahng
About
I am a member of the CSDL (CAD&SoC Design Lab.), supervised by Prof. Seokhyeong Kang, in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). Since July 2026, I am currently an on-site Visiting Graduate Scholar with the ABKGroup (VLSI CAD Lab.) at the University of California San Diego, hosted by Prof. Andrew B. Kahng. My research focuses on differentiable optimization frameworks for VLSI CAD objectives and AI-driven approaches to electronic design automation. I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. from the Graduate School of AI at POSTECH. During my M.S., I was supervised by Prof. Jaesik Park in the CVLab (Computer Vision Lab.).
Research Interests
Education
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Sep 2023 - Feb 2027
Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering · CSDL (CAD&SoC Design Lab.)
Pohang, Korea · Supervisor: Prof. Seokhyeong Kang
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
M.S. in Graduate School of AI · CVLab (Computer Vision Lab.)
Pohang, Korea · Thesis: Instance-Aware Image Completion · Supervisor: Prof. Jaesik Park
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Mar 2016 - Aug 2020
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Pohang, Korea
Publications
1
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Evanston, IL, USA, 2026
2
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2026
3
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2026
4
31st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Hong Kong, 2026
5
Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Lyon, France, 2025
6
30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Tokyo, Japan, 2025
7
43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Newark, USA, 2024
8
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD), Snowbird, UT, USA, 2024
9
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), AI for Content Creation (AI4CC) Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, 2023
Experience
Samsung Electronics
Jan 2020 – Feb 2020
Research Intern · CE/IM Visual Display, SoC H/W Team
LG Display
Jun 2018 – Jul 2018
Research Intern · OLED Encapsulation Team
Awards & Honors
2026
Jinoh Cho, Jinmo Ahn, and Seokhyeong Kang · Top 3.8% among 3,172 submissions
2025
3rd Prize, 4th POSTECH-EE Research Achievement Sharing and Award
Research Achievement Award
2021
Team leader · AI model development challenge for diabetes prediction
Skills & Proficiency
- Programming
- Python, C/C++, MATLAB, Verilog, Tcl, Shell scripting
- Research
- Applying AI and various optimization techniques (LP, ILP, MILP, gradient-based optimization, etc.) to physical design problems
- Languages
- Korean (native), English (professional)
- Interests
- Soccer and tennis