Awards

2018 International SoC Design Conference - Best Paper Award

Winner: Jaehyun Kimm, Chaeun Lee, and Kiyoung Choi
Title: Energy Efficient Analog Synapse/Neuron Circuit for Binarized Neural Networks
Date: November 14, 2010
Awarder: Gwang-Hyun Baek (ISOCC General Chair)

도연창조상

Winner: Kiyoung Choi
Category: Engineering
Date: October 29, 2018
Awarder: Jong-duk Lee (Honorary professor of Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University)

BK21 PLUS Outstanding Graduate Student Commendation

Winner: Junwhan Ahn
Category: Engineering
Date: March 8, 2017
Awarder: Joon-sik Lee (Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs)

BK21 PLUS Outstanding Graduate Student Commendation

Winner: Junwhan Ahn
Category: Engineering
Date: March 8, 2017
Awarder: Joon-sik Lee (Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs)

The 22nd HumanTech Paper Award - Gold Prize

Winner: Junwhan Ahn
Category: Computer Science & Engineering
Date: February 3, 2016
Awarder: Kwon Oh-hyun (Vice Chairman & CEO of Samsung Electronics)

The 22nd HumanTech Paper Award - Bronze Prize

Winner: Jinho Lee
Category: Computer Science & Engineering
Date: February 3, 2016
Awarder: Kwon Oh-hyun (Vice Chairman & CEO of Samsung Electronics)

2014 SoC Conference - Best Paper Award

Winner: Pierre Nicolas-Nicolaz and Kiyoung Choi
Title: A low overhead Flip-N-Write method for reducing energy in STT-RAM Caches
Date: May 17, 2014
Awarder: Jin-Ku Kang (IEEK SoC Design Technical Society)

2012 IEEK Fall Conference - Best Paper Award

Winner: JaeHoon Jang, Seokhyun Lee, and Kiyoung Choi
Title: Fast Design Space Exploration for Multimode System Design
Date: December 12, 2012
Awarder: Kukjin Chun (IEEK)

2012 SoC Conference - ETRI SW-SoC Convergence R&BD Best Paper Award

Winner: Jihyun Ryoo, Hanmin Park, and Kiyoung Choi
Title: GPU-Based Acceleration of Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm
Date: April 21, 2012
Awarder: Jin Sang Kim (IEEK SoC Design Technical Society)

2010 International SoC Design Conference - Best Paper Award

Winner: Di Wu, Imyong Lee, and Kiyoung Choi
Title: Fast Custom Instruction Generation under Area Constraint
Date: November 22, 2010
Awarder: Hi-Seok Kim (ISOCC General Chair)

IP/SoC and Job Fair - IP/SoC Exhibition Award

Winner: Hanmin Park and Youngchan Kim
Title: 32-bit Configurable Processor
Date: October 20, 2010
Awarder: President of Kwangwoon University Nano IP/SoC Design Technology Agency

The Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design 2010 - Best Paper Award

Winner: Rohit Y. Sharma and Kiyoung Choi
Title: A Formal Approach toward Developing an Equivalent Circuit for High-Speed Coupled Interconnects with Intermediate Ground Insertion
Date: August 3, 2010
Awarder: Ali A. Iranmanesh (President of ISQED)

2009 SoC Conference - ETRI System Semiconductor Industry Promotion Center Best Paper Award

Winner: Kyuseung Han and Kiyoung Choi
Title: Library-based Mapping of Application to Reconfigurable Array Architecture
Date: May 16, 2009
Awarder: Yunmo Chung (IEEK SoC Design Technical Society)

The 13th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications - Best Paper Award

Winner: Youngchul Cho
Title: Buffer Size Reduction through Control-Flow Decomposition
Date: August 21, 2007
Awarder: IEEE Computer Society

2007 SoC Conference - IEEE SSCS/EDS Seoul Chapter Best English Paper Award

Winner: Yongjin Ahn and Kiyoung Choi
Title: MPSoc Design Space Exploration Based on Static Analysis of Processor Network Model
Date: May 26, 2007
Awarder: Hyunchul Shin (IEEK SoC Design Technical Society)

2nd SoC Design Contest - Prize for Encouragement

Winner: Dongkwan Suh, Seokhyun Lee, Manhwee Jo
Title : Design of MP-SoC Platform for Multimedia Application
Date : December 1, 2006
Awarder: Soo-Ik Chae (Director of the Center for SoC Design Technology)

7th Chip-Design Contest Sponsored by Korean Intellectual Property Office - Bronze Prize

Winner: Yoonjin Kim and Ilhyun Park
Title: Design of Reconfigurable Processor for Mobile Multimedia Applications
Date: December 1, 2006
Awarder: Sang-Woo Jun (Director of Korean Intellectual Property Office)

International SoC Design Conference 2006 Chip Design Contest - Demo Section Second Prize

Winner: Ilhyun Park, Yoonjin Kim, Chulsoo Park, Jeongki Son, Manhwee Jo, and Kiyoung Choi
Title: Chip Implementation of a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture
Date: October 27, 2006
Awarder: Jaeseok Kim (ISOCC General Chair)

1st SoC Design Contest - Excellence Award

Winner: Yoonjin Kim, Chulsoo Park, and Ilhyun Park
Title: Design of Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture
Date: December 2, 2005
Awarder: Soo-Ik Chae (Director of the Center for SoC Design Technology)

IT-SoC 2005 & Next-Generation PC Exhibition - SoC Development Project Exhibition Award

Winner: Kiyoung Choi
Title: Flash Memory Controller
Date: November 17, 2005
Awarder: President of Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency

Altera 2005 Nios Soft-Core Embedded Processor Design Contest - Second Place Winner

Winner: Imyong Lee, Ilhyun Park, and Dongwook Lee
Title: Implementation of the H.264/AVC Decoder Using Nios Configurable Processor
Date: October 25, 2005
Awarder: Ben Lee (Vice President of ALTERA AP)

2005 SoC Conference - IEEE SSCS/EDS Seoul Chapter Paper Award

Winner: Yoonjin Kim, Mary Kiemb, and Kiyoung Choi
Title: Efficient Design Space Exploration for Domain-Specific Optimization of Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture
Date: May 21, 2005
Awarder: Jaesuk Kim (Chair of IEEK SoC Design Technical Society)

IT-SoC Excellent Thesis Award

Winner: Yoonjin Kim
Title: Domain-Specific OptimIzation of Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures
Date: February 10, 2005
Awarder: Hyunjin Ko (President of Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency)

The CADathlon at ICCAD 2003 - Honorable Mention

Winner: Youngchul Cho and Junhee Yoo
Title: Programming Contest at ICCAD - Second Place Winner
Date: November 10, 2003
Awarder: ACM SIGDA

Samsung Paper Award

Winner: Sungyum Kim, Sunghyun Lee, and Kiyoung Choi
Title: Synthesis of Processor Hardware from Architecture Description
Date: October 23, 2002
Awarder: Hyung-Gyu Lim (Samsung Electronics System LSI Division)

Science Technology Excellence Paper Award

Winner: Kiyoung Choi
Title: Performance-driven high-level synthesis with bit-level chaining and clock selection
Date: April 26, 2002
Awarder: Kim Si-Joong (President of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies)