hyyoo
Yoo, Hoyoung
Associate Professor
Department of Electronics Engineering
Chungnam National University

Biography

Prof. Hoyoung Yoo received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei university, Seoul, Korea in 2010, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He is currently an associate professor in the department of Electronics Engineering at Chungnam National University.

Education

  • 2012/03 – 2016/02      Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
  • 2010/03 – 2012/02      M.S. in Electronics Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
  • 2003/03 – 2010/02      B.S. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei, Seoul, Korea

Experiences

  • 2020/09 – Present       Associate Professor, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
  • 2016/09 – 2020/08      Assistant Professor, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
  • 2016/02 – 2016/08      Researcher, Samsung Electronics, Hwasung, Korea
  • 2010/03 – 2016/02      Teaching Assistant (TA), KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
  • 2010/03 – 2016/02      Research Assistant (RA), KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Honors and Awards

  • Enterprise Special Award, “Low Complexity Speech Recognition System”, 20th Korea Semiconductor Design Contest, 2019
  • Excellent presentation paper, “Fault Tolerant Systems for Finite State Machines”, SoC Conf., 2019
  • Best Paper Award, “Hybrid Decoding for polar codes”, IEEE ISOCC 2018
  • Qualcomm Innovation Award, “Energy-Efficient VLSI Architecture for HMM-based Isolated Word Recognition”, 2015
  • First prize, “Speech Recognition for Automobile Systems”, Altera Design Contest, 2014
  • Best Demo Award, “Efficient 32-bit real-time embedded platform for IoT systems”, IEEE ISOCC 2014
  • Best Demo Award, “Energy-efficient high-throughput iterative concatenated-BCH decoder for MLC flash memory”, IEEE ISOCC 2013
  • Kim Choong-Ki Award (Top 3 Research Excellence Award), KAIST EE, 2013
  • Special Award, “Error-tolerant controller design for massive MLC SSDs”, Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) IP Design Contest, 2011

Professional Services and Membership

  • Journal Associate Editor
    • 2018 – Present IEIE Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
  • Journal Reviewer
    • 2016 – Present  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Syst. I
    • 2016 – Present  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Syst. II
    • 2016 – Present  IEEE Transactions on VLSI
    • 2016 – Present  IEEE Communication Letters
    • 2018 – Present  Elsevier Microelectronics Journal
    • 2019 – Present Elsevier Integration, the VLSI Journal
    • 2019 – Present IET Science, Measurement, Technology
  • International Conference Committee
    • 2021 IEEE ISCAS Web/Social Media Co-Chair
    • 2021 IEEE ICEIC Best Paper Track Chair
    • 2020 IEEE ISCAS TPC 
    • 2020 IEEE ISOCC TPC
    • 2019 IEEE ISCAS TPC
    • 2019 IEEE SiPS TPC
    • 2019 IEEE ISOCC TPC
    • 2018 IEEE ISOCC TPC
  • Professional Services
    • 2016 – Present IEEE Member 
    • 2018 – Present IEEE CAS Member 
    • 2020 – Present IEEE CAS Technical Committee
    • 2019 – Present 대한전자공학회 협동이사
    • 28회 반도체학술대회 System LSI Design 분과 공동 분과위원장