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, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea in 2024. His research was conducted with Prof. Seokhyeong Kang in CAD & SoC Design Lab..
During his M.S. program, he was a visiting scholar at the ABK Group, UCSD (University of California, San Diego) from June 2023 to February 2024, contributing to the open-source EDA platform OpenROAD — implementing routing utilization estimation (RUDY) and prototyping a 3D IC multi-die manager.
He is currently working as an engineer at BAUM Design Systems, specializing in design and development of EDA tools.
Experiences
- Specializing in design and development of EDA tools.
- Contributed to the OpenROAD project: implemented RUDY (Routing Utilization estimation with heatmap visualization) and odb exception handling for multi-block designs.
- Developed 3D IC multi-die manager prototype (partitioning, legalization, timing, routing) — handed off for continued development.
- Developed medical EEG equipment: full-cycle hardware from circuit design (ADS1299) through PCB fabrication to firmware development.
- Cadence Virtuoso analog circuit design & verification.
- Implementation of DAC chip protocol with Verilog & UI for ADC application.
- Analyzed realtime EEG data with CNN.
- Data mining for Microglia cell migration.