Chris Kim

McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact

chriskim@umn.edu

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Minneapolis, MN 55455

VLSI Research Group

Chris Kim

McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research

VLSI Research Group

My research focuses on designing energy-efficient, robust, and intelligent integrated circuits and systems. Our main expertise is in building chips but we also collaborate extensively with researchers in materials, devices, algorithms, systems, and signal processing. Over the years, we have transferred several key technologies to the semiconductor industry, including the silicon odometer circuit for measuring circuit wear out, radiation monitoring circuits, and SPICE models for magnetic tunnel junctions.

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Biography

Education

Ph.D., EE, 2004, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
M.S., BME, 2000, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
B.S., EE, 1998, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Professional Background

Digital and mixed-signal circuit design, circuit reliability, radiation effects, time-based circuits, spintronic circuits, hardware security, novel computing, machine learning hardware

Teaching

Publications & Awards

Honors and Awards

2024 Mcknight Presidential Endowed Chair
2023 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award
2022 Distinguished Mcknight University Professorship
2021 Louis John Schnell Professorship
2019 IEEE Fellow “for contributions to on-chip circuit reliability evaluation and characterization”
2018 George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research (Collegiate Award)
2016 SRC Technical Excellence Award
2012 Council of Graduate Students Outstanding Faculty Award
2009 NSF CAREER Award
2008 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Award
2008 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
2006-2008 IBM Faculty Partnership Award
2005 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Outstanding Young Author Award

Selected Publications

U. Karpuzcu, H. Cılasun, W. Moy, Z. Zeng, T. Islam, H. Lo, A. Vanasse, M. Tan, M. Anees, Ramprasath S, A. Kumar, S. Sapatnekar, and C.H. Kim, "COBI: A Coupled Oscillator Based Ising Chip for Combinatorial Optimization", 2024

H. Cılasun, Z. Zeng, Ramprasath S, A. Kumar, H. Lo, W. Cho, W. Moy, C.H. Kim, U. Karpuzcu, and S. Sapatnekar, “3SAT on an all‑to‑all‑connected CMOS Ising solver chip”, Scientific Reports, 2024

Y. Yi, A. Kteya, A. Volkov, S. Moreau, V. Sukharev, and C.H. Kim, “Electromigration Test Chip Experiments From Realistic Power Grid Structures: Failure Trend Comparison and Statistical Analysis”, International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), 2024

H. Lo, W. Moy, H. Yu, S. Sapatnekar, and C.H. Kim, “A 48-node All-to-all Connected Coupled Oscillator Ising Solver Chip”, Nature Electronics, Oct. 2023

W. Moy, I. Ahmed, P. Chiu, J. Moy, S. Sapatnekar and C.H. Kim, "A 1,968-node coupled ring oscillator circuit for combinatorial optimization problem solving", Nature Electronics, 2022

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