The Digital Processor & System-on-Chip (DiPS) Lab focuses on HW-friendly algorithm optimizations, digital computing architectures, and circuit implementations for intelligent computing systems. Our mission is to bridge the gap between algorithmic innovation and hardware realization by co-designing across algorithm, architecture, and circuit levels. By integrating research efforts, we aim to develop digital systems that enable next-generation applications.
Curriculum Vitae
2025 ~ Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, UNIST
2024 ~ 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, POSTECH
2023 ~ 2023: Visiting Researcher, University of Michigan, USA
Education
2024: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, POSTECH
2020: M.S. Electrical Engineering, POSTECH
2018: B.S. Electrical Engineering, POSTECH
Research Keywords and Topics
Digital VLSI design
Domain-specific computing systems
HW/SW co-design
Embedded System-on-Chip
AI accelerator design
Next-generation wireless communications
Publications (selected)
D. Kam, M. Yun, S. Yoo, S. Hong, Z. Zhang, and Y. Lee, “Panacea: Novel DNN accelerator using accuracy-preserving asymmetric quantization and energy-saving bit-slice sparsity,” IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Mar. 2025.
D. Kam, S. Yun, J. Choe, Z. Zhang, N. Lee, and Y. Lee, “A 21.9 ns, 15.7 Gbps/mm^2 (128, 15) BOSS FEC decoder for 5G/6G URLLC applications,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, USA, Feb. 2024.
D. Kam, B. Y. Kong, and Y. Lee, “Low-latency SCL polar decoder architecture using overlapped pruning operations,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 1417-1427, Mar. 2023.
D. Kam, B. Y. Kong, and Y. Lee, “A 1.1µs 1.56Gb/s/mm^2 cost-efficient large-list SCL polar decoder using fully-reusable LLR buffers in 28nm CMOS technology,” IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), Honolulu, HI, USA, June 2022.
D. Kam*, J. G. Min*, J. Yoon, S. Kim, S. Kang, and Y. Lee, “Design and evaluation frameworks for advanced RISC-based ternary processor,” IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium, Mar. 2022.
Awards/ Honors/ Memberships
Best Paper Award, Samsung-POSTECH Research center, 2024
Postdoctoral Fellowship (PIURI), granted by POSTECH, 2024
POSTECHIAN Fellowship, granted by POSTECH EE, 2024
International Research Scholarship, granted by KIAT (SNU), 2022
IEEE SSCS Seoul Chapter Award (Best Design Award), ISOCC, 2020