Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
M.S., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
B.S., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Telephone: (612) 625-2346
Fax: (612) 625-4583
Email: chriskim-at-umn-dot-edu
URL: www.umn.edu/~chriskim/
Professor Chris H. Kim received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. He has received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.. He has spent a stint at Intel Corporation where he performed research on variation-tolerant circuits, on-die leakage sensor design and crosstalk noise analysis. He joined the electrical and computer engineering faculty at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, in 2004.
Professor Kim has received the 2008 Mcknight Land-Grant Professorship, 2008 DAC/ISSCC Design Contest Award, 2008 3M Non Tenured Faculty Grant Award, 2006-2008 IBM Faculty Partnership Award, 2005 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society outstanding young author award, 2005 ISLPED low power design contest award, 2003 Intel Ph.D. fellowship award, 2001 Magoon's award for excellence in teaching, and the best paper award at 1999 IEEE-EMBS. His research interest include both experimental and theoretical design aspects of digital and mixed-signal VLSI circuits.
He serves as a technical program committee member for the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC), International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design (ISQED) , and International Conference on Integrated Circuit Design and Technology (ICICDT).