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Minjae Kim

Engineer at BAUM Design Systems, Korea

Education

M.Sc in Electrical Engineering

Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Feb.2022 - Feb.2024

BSc in Electrical Engineering (Major) & Computer Science Engineering (Minor)

UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Republic of Korea
Mar.2017 - Feb.2022

Languages

  • Korean (Native)
  • English (Advanced)

Interests

  • Electrical Design Automation
  • Deep Learning Hardware
  • Machine Learning

Career Profile

Minjae Kim received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (Major) and Computer Science Engineering (Minor) from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea in 2022.

He is currently the M.S. candidate in electrical engineering in 2022 from Pohang University of Science and Technology(POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea. His current research interests include Electronic Design Automation Develop, ML, etc. He is working with Prof. Seokhyeong Kang in CAD & SoC Design Lab..

He has visiting scholar program from June.2023 to Dec.2023 at ABK Group, UCSD (University of California, San Diego).

Minjae is currently working as an engineer at BAUM Design Systems, Korea.

Experiences

Engineer

Feb.2024 - present
BAUM Design Systems, Korea
  • Specializing in design and development of EDA tools.

Visiting Scholar

June.2023 - Feb.2024
ABK Group, UCSD (University of California, San Diego)
  • Contribute into OpenROAD project for 3D IC Design

Hardware Develop Team Leader

June.2020 - September.2021
Startup Do:main, Gang-Nam in Korea
  • Developed Medical Equipment (EEG) hardware.

Undergraduate Research Intern

June.2019 - December.2019
Bio-inspired Advanced Sensors Lab (BIAS), UNIST in Korea
  • Learning Cadence Virtuoso & verification of Analog Circuit Division
  • Implementation of DAC chip protocol with Verilog & UI making for ADC application

Undergraduate Research Intern

February.2019 - August.2019
Brain Computer Interface Lab (BCI), UNIST in Korea
  • Analyzed realtime EEG data with CNN.

Undergraduate Research Intern

November.2018 - March.2019
Institute for Basic Science (IBS), UNIST in Korea
  • Mined data for Microglia cell migration.

Awards

POSTECH Fellowship - May.2022
Best Awards in Naver X Like Lion Hakaton - November.2018

Publications

  • TA3D: Timing-Aware 3D IC Partitioning and Placement by Optimizing the Critical Path
    • Dongyu Kim, Minjae Kim, Junseok Hur, Jakang Lee, Jinoh Cho, and S. Kang
    6th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD), 2024.
  • Open-Source 3D Global Placer with D2D Vertical Connections using Louvain Clustering and RePlAce
    • Minjae Kim, Dohun Kim, and S. Kang
    Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), 2023
  • RL-Legalizer: Reinforcement Learning-based Cell Priority Optimization in Mixed-Height Standard Cell Legalization,
    • Sung-Yun Lee, Seonghyeon Park, Daeyeon Kim, Minjae Kim, T. P. Le and S. Kang
    IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE), 2023

    Skills & Proficiency

    C++ & C (with gdb, gtest, perf, valgrind)

    Python & Jupyter

    Verilog

    Embedded (MCU, FPGA, RaspberryPi, JetsonNano)

    Peripheral (SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO)

    Graphical User Interface (Qt5 with Python & C++)

    MATLAB

    Tensorflow & PyTorch

    EDA (Cadence Innovus, Virtuoso, Pspice, LTspice, AutoCad)

    Linux