Dongyun Kam
Postdoctoral Researcher
at POSTECH Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Research Interests:
Digital system, ASIC, DNN acceleration, Wireless communication
Contact: rkaehddbs (at) gmail (dot) com
About
I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at POSTECH Institute of Artificial Intelligence. During my Ph.D. studies and postdoc, my research has focused on Energy-Efficient Digital System Design under the supervision of Prof. Youngjoo Lee. More specifically, my research interests include:
- Hardware-software co-design and co-optimization
- Energy-efficient DNN inference in edge devices (Low bit-quantizaiton + Sparsity)
- Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency wireless Communication (URLLC) system
- ASIC implementation and verification
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engieering
POSTECH, South Korea, 2020 - 2024 (Advisor: Prof. Youngjoo Lee)
M.S. in Electrical Engieering
POSTECH, South Korea, 2018 - 2020 (Advisor: Prof. Youngjoo Lee)
B.S. in Electrical Engieering
POSTECH, South Korea, 2014 - 2018
Work Experience
Visiting Researcher | Mar. 2025 -- Present
KAIST EE, Republic of Korea
Postdoctoral Researcher | Aug. 2024 -- Present
POSTECH Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Republic of Korea
Research topic: Accelerating state space machine (SSM)-based LLM models with bit-serial computations
Visiting Researcher | Mar. 2023 -- Sep. 2023
LEASP at EECS, University of Michigan, USA
Research topic: Designing energy-efficient inference accelerator design for large-scale DNN models
Graduate Research Assistant | Mar. 2018 -- Aug. 2024
EPIC LAB at EE, POSTECH, Republic of Korea
Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoder design for 5G/6G communication systems
Hardware verification and ASIC implementation with EDA tools
Undergraduate Internship | Jan. 2017 -- June 2017
Alticast, Republic of Korea
Speech recognition-based Educational software for a set-top Box
Honors and Awards
Best Paper Award, Samsung-POSTECH Research center | Aug. 2024
Postdoctoral Fellowship, granted by POSTECH | Aug. 2024
POSTECHIAN Fellowship, granted by POSTECH EE | May 2024
POSTECH EE Achievement Competition Encouragement Award (supported by BK21 Four) | Jan. 2024
International Research Scholarship, granted by SNU, Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) | Dec. 2022
Visiting research at the University of Michigan (Collaboration with Prof. Zhengya Zhang)
IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter Award (Best Design Award), International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC) | Oct. 2020
Design: "Low-Latency SCL polar decoder using overlapped pruning operations"
Special Award, 21st Korea Semiconductor Design Contest | Oct. 2020
Design: "Noise resilient CNN accelerator with network stacking"
Best Paper Award, Summer Annual Conference of IEIE | Aug. 2020
Paper: "Complexity Analysis of OSD Algorithm for Short Error Correction Codes"
25th Samsung Humantech Encouragement Paper Award | Feb. 2019
Paper: "Massive MIMO systems with low-resolution ADCs: Baseband energy consumption vs. Symbol detection performance"