Professor
Wanyeong Jung
Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Department of AI Systems, KAIST
Smart Energy-Efficient Design Laboratory focuses on low-power integrated circuits, power management, and AI-assisted design automation for compact autonomous systems.
Biography
Wanyeong Jung leads the Smart Energy-Efficient Design Laboratory at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2012, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2017. From August 2017 to August 2019, he worked at the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate.
His primary research interests lie in the general area of analog and digital circuits, with an emphasis on autonomous low-power systems such as remote sensor devices, Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and CAD-driven automated circuit design. His dissertation research at the University of Michigan focused on low-power analog circuit techniques for realizing small, low-power systems, including on-chip energy harvesting, power management, sensing, and data conversion. At MIT, he expanded his research to digital circuits, including energy-efficient inference accelerators and secure IoT systems. Now at KAIST, he focuses on improving these fundamental building blocks and developing AI-based automation tools to create smaller, more powerful, efficient, and reliable systems through automated topology exploration and optimization.