Bon Tae Koo

Dr. Bon Tae Koo received an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Korea University in 1991. In 1991, he was with the System Semiconductor Division, Hyundai Electronics Company, Ichon, South Korea, where he was involved in the chip design of video codec and DVB modem. From 1993 to 1995, he was with HEA, San Jose, U.S., where he was responsible for the design of MPEG2 video codec chips. From 1996 to 1997, he was with TVCOM, U.S., designing DVB modem chips. In 1998, he joined the System Semiconductor Laboratory, Dongbu Electronics, as the Team Leader, and focused on the methodology of semiconductor chip design. 

In 1999, he joined the System Semiconductor Research Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), where he was the Team Leader, and his research activities included the chip design of MPEG4 video, T-DMB receiver, LTE femtocell modem, and DSP processor. In 2016, he joined the RF Research Group, ETRI, where he is currently the Project Leader. Since 2023, he has been in charge of the Intelligent Semiconductor Research Division, ETRI, where he is focusing on AI semiconductor design research. His research interests include millimetre-wave AI radars.