Yong-Bin Kim

Yong-Bin Kim is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, part of the College of Engineering. He has held prior positions at Intel Corp., Hewlett Packard Co., Sun Microsystems, and the University of Utah. His research focuses on integrated circuit design, nanoelectronics, bio-chip interfaces, and low-power VLSI systems. He has contributed to initiatives like the HPVLSI Lab and Microsystems and Electron Devices Lab.

Education includes a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Sogang University (Seoul, South Korea), an M.S. from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Colorado State University (1996).

Research interests encompass high-speed low-power VLSI design, system-on-chip (SoC), physical VLSI CAD, and nanoelectronics. Specific areas include bio-sensor interface circuits, electronic neuron design, and adaptive robot controllers. Key projects involve compact power-efficient integrated circuits and high-speed transceiver design.

• Outstanding Paper Award, 2020 IEEE ISOCC
• South Korean Patent for Autonomous Impedance Calibration (2021)
• Best Paper Award, 2016 International SoC Design Conference
• Patent for Improved Receiver Circuit (2020)
• Patent for Method to Detect Trojan Circuits (2018)

Advisees include graduate student Yixuan He. He has led research projects funded by Winchester Technology and Hynix Semiconductor, focusing on semi-self-calibration transceivers and tunable RF inductors.

Labs include the HPVLSI Lab and Microsystems and Electron Devices Lab at Northeastern University, which focus on high-speed/low-power IC design and microfabrication technologies.