2025.10 — 2029.09
Korea–Switzerland Quantum Science and Technology Programme
MSIT · NRF Korea–Switzerland joint research / Participating institution
RESEARCH
Next Generation Sensor Interface Circuit Design is our guiding philosophy. We start with the signal and the application requirements, then design the analog front end, data conversion, and digital processing as one integrated ASIC system.
Signal acquisition & digitization
We design analog front ends, sensor readout circuits, and high-speed, low-power ADCs and DACs as the building blocks of integrated ASIC systems.
CMOS control & readout interfaces
We develop CMOS circuits for cryogenic operation and integrated interfaces for qubit control and readout.
Silicon-based security
We investigate chip-level reliability and security through physically unclonable functions and random number generation.
AI hardware & circuit optimization
We explore mixed-signal computing, processing-in-memory, and machine learning for efficient circuit design and optimization.
CURRENT PROJECTS
2025.10 — 2029.09
MSIT · NRF Korea–Switzerland joint research / Participating institution
2025.03 — 2028.02
Targets: 4–20 GHz bandwidth, <10 K noise temperature, >50 dB SFDR / NRF mid-career research · Joint research
2025.09 — 2028.08
MSIT · NRF mid-career research / Principal investigator: Jaewon Nam
2025.04 — 2027.12
Core technology development for PIM AI semiconductors / Joint research
2026.03 — 2031.02
MOTIE · Korea Semiconductor Industry Association / Participating faculty
2022.07 — 2029.12
Core technology development for AI semiconductor processing software / MSIT · IITP · University ICT Research Center (ITRC) program / Participating faculty
PAST PROJECTS
2021.03 — 2026.02
MOTIE · Korea Semiconductor Industry Association / Participating faculty · Principal investigator: Seung-Eun Lee, SeoulTech
2023.07 — 2025.11
Contract research · Commissioning institution: POSTECH / Data-converter architectures, sensor-interface ROICs, heterogeneous chip integration, digital video and image interfaces, online signal processing, and cryogenic CMOS device modeling
2021.09 — 2025.09
MSIT · NRF mid-career research / Participating researcher · Principal investigator: Jong-Phil Hong, Chungbuk National University / SRAM-based PUFs, on-chip hardware security, side-channel protection, self-powered sensors, reconfigurable challenge–response pairs, and error correction
2025.02 — 2025.07
Korea Forest Service · Contract research / Principal investigator for the 2025 pilot phase
2022.09 — 2025.02
MSIT · NRF Basic Research Laboratory (BRL) program / Joint research · Principal investigator: Jusung Kim, Hanbat National University
2024.04 — 2025.02
IITP / Participating faculty · Principal investigator: Hyun Kim, SeoulTech
2021.03 — 2024.02
MSIT · NRF first-time research program / Principal investigator
RESEARCH RESOURCES