Younghyun Kim

Associate Professor

Contact

Office: BHEE 322B
Phone: 765-494-3378
E-mail: younghyun@purdue.edu
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Affilliations

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue Institute for Chips and AI
Purdue Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Purdue Applied AI Research Center (AARC)
Semiconductors@Purdue
NSF Athena AI Institute for Edge Computing

Short Bio

Younghyun Kim is an Associate Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue in 2024, he was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2016–2023) and a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Purdue University (2013–2016). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2013 and his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering with highest honors in 2007, both from Seoul National University. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2019), the Meta Research Faculty Award (2021), and number of awards and recognitions for innovative publications, designs, and demonstrations. His research interests span efficient and secure computing, applied and physical AI, and IoT and cyber-physcal systems.

Select Awards and Recognitions

Seed for Success Acorn Award, 2025
Purdue CoE Outstanding Engineering Teacher, 2024
FDL Best Paper Award, 2024
UW-Madison ECE Faculty Service Award, 2022
UW-Madison ECE Outstanding Graduate Student Mentoring Award, 2021
IEEE Micro Top Pick, 2021
Meta Research Faculty Award, 2021
NSF CAREER Award, 2019
ISLPED Low-Power Design Contest Award, 2018
DAC Best Demo, 2018
ISLPED Low-Power Design Contest Award, 2017

See Awards for the full list of awards and recognitions

Teaching

Select Professional Services

Conference Organizing Committee
- ISLPED 2026 General Co-chair
- ISLPED 2025 TPC Co-chair
- ISLPED 2024 Publications Chair
- ISLPED 2023 Publications Chair
Conference Technical Program Committee
- DAC 2019-2020, 2024-2026 (Subcommittee Chair 2025-2026)
- ASP-DAC 2017-2019, 2024
- SAC 2018-2020, 2022
- DSD SPCPS 2020-2022
- VLSID 2017-2019
- ISLPED 2015-2019
- DATE Ph.D. Forum 2014-2016
Journal Editoral Board
- Elsevier VLSI Journal on Integration Guest Editor for Special Issue on ASP-DAC 2018