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Portrait of Yulhwa Kim

Assistant Professor

Yulhwa Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Semiconductor Systems Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Convergence IT Engineering from POSTECH in 2016 and 2022, respectively. From 2022 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center (ISRC), Seoul National University. Her research focuses on advancing the efficiency of AI systems and leveraging AI to solve complex real-world problems. Her interests span a broad range of topics, including efficient AI algorithms, computer architecture, hardware-software co-design, and AI-driven hardware design and automation.

Yulhwa Kim

Assistant Professor

Interests

Efficient AI Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Hardware-Software Co-Design, and AI-driven Hardware Design and Automation

Education

  • Ph.D. in Convergence IT Eng.POSTECH

  • B.S. in Creative IT Eng.POSTECH

Professional experiences

  • Assistant ProfessorSungkyunkwan University

    Mar. 2024 – Present

  • Postdoctoral ResearcherSeoul National University

    Aug. 2022 – Feb. 2024

  • Research InternQualcomm

    Jun. 2020 – Sep. 2020

  • Research InternIBM T.J. Watson Research Center

    Jun. 2019 – Aug. 2019

Office
Room #400306, Semiconductor building

Ph.D. Students1

Ph.D. Student

Efficient AI, Multimodal LLM, Continual Learning, Vision and Audio generation and representation modeling

Jacob Morton

Ph.D. Student

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current research

LLM reasoning and Vision generation

Interests

Efficient AI, Multimodal LLM, Continual Learning, Vision and Audio generation and representation modeling

Integrated M.S.–Ph.D. Students4

M.S.–Ph.D. Student

Latent Reasoning Optimization

Seongjun Park

M.S.–Ph.D. Student

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current research

Efficient AI, LLM Reasoning

Interests

Latent Reasoning Optimization

M.S. Students8

M.S. Student · SSIT

Image Generation Model, Computer Vision

Joonggyu Kim

M.S. Student · SSIT

Department of Semiconductor and Display Engineering

Current research

Generative AI-Based Camera ISP, Reinforcement Learning-Based ISP Optimization

Interests

Image Generation Model, Computer Vision

M.S. Student · SSIT

Soonwon Jeong

M.S. Student · SSIT

M.S. Student

AI for EDA(Electronic Design Automation)

Seungmin Kim

M.S. Student

Department of Semiconductor and Display Engineering

Current research

Analog circuit topology generation, device parameter optimization

Interests

AI for EDA(Electronic Design Automation)

Publications1

M.S. Student

Efficient AI, Multimodal LLM

Yuna Lee

M.S. Student

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

M.S. Student

PIM, AI accelerator

Dohyung Kim

M.S. Student

Department of Semiconductor and Display Engineering

Current research

AI hardware accelerator architecture

Interests

PIM, AI accelerator

M.S. Student

Efficient AI, Al accelerator

Jihyeon Ryu

M.S. Student

Department of Semiconductor and Display Engineering

Current research

AI hardware accelerator architecture

Interests

Efficient AI, Al accelerator

M.S. Student

Efficient AI Algorithm

Seoyoon Chae

M.S. Student

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current research

KV cache compression for efficient LLM reasoning

Interests

Efficient AI Algorithm

M.S. Student

AI for EDA(Electronic Design Automation), AI Hardware Systems

Mingun Kim

M.S. Student

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current research

Digital design automation, Agentic RTL verification

Interests

AI for EDA(Electronic Design Automation), AI Hardware Systems

Publications1