Joo-Young Kim

Dr. Joo-Young Kim received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2005, 2007, and 2010, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST. He is also the Director of the AI Semiconductor Systems Research Center. 

Dr. Kim’s research interests span various aspects of hardware design, including VLSI design, computer architecture, FPGA, domain-specific accelerators, hardware/software co-design, and agile hardware development. Before joining KAIST, he was a Hardware Engineering Leader at Microsoft Azure, in Redmond, Washington, working on hardware acceleration for its hyper-scale big data analytics platform named Azure Data Lake. He was also one of the initial members of the Catapult project at Microsoft Research, also in Redmond, where he deployed a fabric of FPGAs in data centres to accelerate critical cloud services such as machine learning, data storage, and networking. He founded HyperAccel in January 2023 to build innovative AI processor/solutions for generative AI, making it sustainable for everyone.