YOONMYUNG LEE

Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist 1411 Natalie Ln. Apt #102

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Room 2435, EECS Building http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sori

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Last updated Nov. 2012

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Apr. 2012

Thesis: Ultra-Low Power Circuit Design for Cubic-Millimeter Wireless Sensor Platform

Advisor: Professor David T. Blaauw

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Apr. 2008

GPA 8.03 / 9.0 (A+ = 9.0, A = 8.0)

Advisor: Professor David T. Blaauw

B.S. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering Feb. 2004

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea

GPA 4.01 / 4.3, Minor in Computer Science and Engineering

Graduated at the top of the class of 2004, Summa Cum Laude

Professional Experience

Nov. 2012 Michigan Integrated Circuits Lab (MICL), University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Present Assistant Research Scientist

Jan. 2012 Michigan Integrated Circuits Lab (MICL), University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Oct. 2012 Research Fellow

Oct. 2006 Michigan Integrated Circuits Lab (MICL), University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Dec. 2011 Graduate Student Research Assistant

- Research on ultra-low power 1mm3 sensor platform with low power I2C protocol

- Research on sub-nW low jitter and temperature compensated timer

- Research on ultra-low power embedded DRAM with 2T dual-Vth gain-cell

- Research on logic and memory circuit design strategies for Si/SiGe/Ge Hetero-junction

Tunneling Transistor (HETT), a low power operation optimized transistor

- Research on standby power reduction strategy of ultra-low power sensor platforms

Jun. 2009 T.J. Watson Reseiarch Center, IBM Yorktown Heights, NY

Aug. 2009 Summer Intern

- Evaluated the effect of variations on HETT

- Worked on implementing tunneling transistor compact model in VerilogA

May 2008 Circuit Research Lab, Intel Corporation Hillsboro, OR

Aug. 2008 Graduate Technical Intern

- Evaluated and verified circuit-switched on-die interconnect fabrics for Intel s sub -32nm

multi-core microprocessor platforms

- Proposed novel active and standby power reduction circuit s for a 64-node multi-core

processor in 45nm CMOS technology

- Filed an invention disclosure for the circuit innovation

- Evaluated as an outstanding intern by the supervisor

Jan. 2004 Siemens Automotive Systems Corporation Icheon, Korea

Jul. 2006 Firmware Engineer

- Developed firmware for Infineon C167 and TriCore1766 microprocessor

- Implementation of communication and diagnostic protocol for Transmission Control Unit

(TCU) on vehicle model: Hyundai Sonata ( 04) and Elantra ( 06)

Teaching Experience

Jan.2010 EECS 627 : VLSI Design II, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Apr.2010 Graduate Student Instructor

- Advanced integrated circuit design course for graduate students

- Led discussions/tutorials, developed exams and provided CAD tool support

- Student evaluation: 4.83 / 5.00

Aug.2003 EECS 235 : Electrical Circuits, POSTECH Pohang, Korea

Dec.2003 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

- Led discussions/tutorials for an undergrad course EECS235: Electrical Circuits

- First undergraduate student to be a teaching assistant for an undergraduate course

Selected Honors and Awards

Silver Prize February 2012

- Samsung Human-Tech Thesis Prize

Best Poster Award November 2011

- SRC/MuSyC Research Consortium Annual Review

Intel PhD Fellowship August 2011

- Full study support for 1 year

DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Winner July 2011

- Design title: Design and Implementation of Centip3De, a 7-layer Many-Core System

Best Paper Award August 2009

- International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)

DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Winner June 2009

- Design title: Phoenix: an Ultra-low Power Processor for Cubic Millimeter Sensor Systems

Samsung Scholarship November 2005

- Full graduate study support for 4 years

KFAS Doctoral Scholarship for Study Abroad August 2005

- Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies

- Full graduate study support

- Gratefully declined in order to observe institutional regulation

Presidential Award for Honor Students February 2004

- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Ministry of Education and Human Resource

Development, Republic of Korea

Official commendation for the graduate of the greatest di stinction February 2004

- The Dean of POSTECH

Siemens Scholarship May 2003

- Siemens Automotive Systems Corporations

KFAS Distinguished Undergraduate Student Scholarship 2002 - 2004

- Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies

Publications

Journal Articles

Yoonmyung Lee, Bharan Giridhar, Zhiyoong Foo, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, A Sub-nW Multi-

1.

stage Temperature Compensated Timer for Ultra-Low-Power Sensor Nodes, submitted

Yoonmyung Lee, Dongmin Yoon, Yejoong Kim, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, Circuit and System

2.

Design Guidelines for Ultra-Low Power Sensor Nodes IPSJ Transactions on System LSI Design

Methodology (TSLDM), invited paper, accepted (to appear February 2013)

3. Yoonmyung Lee, Suyoung Bang, Inhee Lee, Yejoong Kim, Gyouho Kim, Prabal Dutta, Dennis

Sylvester, David Blaauw, A modular 1mm3 Die -Stacked Sensing Platform with Low Power I2C Inter -

die Communication and Multi-Modal Energy Harvesting IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC),

invited paper, January 2013

4. David Fick, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Bharan Giridhar, Gyouho Kim, Sangwon Seo, Matthew Fojtik, Sudhir

Satpathy, Yoonmyung Lee, Daeyeon Kim, Nurrachman Liu, Michael Wieckowski, Gregory Chen,

Trevor Mudge, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, Centip3De: A Cluster -Based NTC Architecture with

64 ARM Cortex-M3 Cores in 3D Stacked 130nm CMOS IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC),

invited paper, January 2013

5. Yoonmyung Lee, Daeyeon Kim, Jin Cai, Isaac Lauer, Leland Chang, Steven J. Koester, David Blaauw,

Dennis Sylvester, Low Power Circuit Analysis and Design Based on Heterojunction Tunneling

Transistors (HETTs), IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (T -VLSI), accepted

(to appear September 2013)

6. Scott Hanson, Mingoo Seok, Yu-Shiang Lin, Zhiyoong Foo, Daeyeon Kim, Yoonmyung Lee,

Nurrachman Liu, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, A Low -Voltage Processor for Sensing Applications

With Picowatt Standby Mode, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Apr 2009, invited paper to

special issue on VLSI Circuits

Conference Proceedings

1. Jonathan Brown, Kuo-Ken Huang, Elnaz Ansari, Ryan Rogel, Yoonmyung Lee, David Wentzloff, "An

Ultra-Low Power 9.8GHz Crystal-Less UWB Transceiver with Modem Integrated in 180nm BiCMOS"

IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), February 2013, to appear

2. Yoonmyung Lee, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, " Circuits for Ultra-Low Power Millimeter-Scale

Sensor Nodes in 46th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ASILOMAR),

November 2012, invited paper

3. Gyouho Kim, Yoonmyung Lee, Suyoung Bang, Inhee Lee, Yejoong Kim, Dennis Sylvester, David

Blaauw, "A 695 pW Standby Power Optical Wake-up Receiver for Wireless Sensor Nodes" IEEE

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), September 2012

4. Yejoong Kim, Yoonmyung Lee, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, "SLC: Split-Control Level Converter

for Dense and Stable Wide-Range Voltage Conversion" IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference

(ESSCIRC), September 2012

5. Yoonmyung Lee, Yejoong Kim, Dongmin Yoon, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, "Circuit and System

Design Guidelines for Ultra-Low Power Sensor Nodes" ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference

(DAC), June 2012, invited paper

6. Inhee Lee, Suyoung Bang, Yoonmyung Lee, Yejoong Kim, Gyouho Kim, Dennis Sylvester, David

Blaauw, "A 635pW Battery Voltage Supervisory Circuit for Miniature Sensor Nodes" IEEE Symposium

on VLSI Circuits (SOVC), June 2012

7. Pat Pannuto, Yoonmyung Lee, Ben Kempke, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Prabal Dutta, "Ultra-

constrained sensor platform interfacing," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information

Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2012

8. Yoonmyung Lee, Gyouho Kim, Suyoung Bang, Yejoong Kim, Inhee Lee, Prabal Dutta, Dennis

Sylvester, David Blaauw, "A Modular 1mm3 Die-Stacked Sensing Platform with Optical Communication

and Multi-Modal Energy Harvesting" IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC),

February 2012

9. David Fick, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Bharan Giridhar, Gyouho Kim, Sangwon Seo, Matthew Fojtik, Sudhir

Satpathy, Yoonmyung Lee, Daeyeon Kim, Nurrachman Liu, Michael Wieckowski, Gregory Chen,

Trevor Mudge, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Centip3De: A 3930 DMIPS/W Configurable Near -

Threshold 3D Stacked System With 64 ARM Cortex-M3 Cores, IEEE International Solid-State Circuit

Conference (ISSCC), February 2012

10. Yoonmyung Lee, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Synchronization of Ultra -Low Power Wireless

Sensor Nodes," IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuit and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug 2011,

invited paper

11. Yoonmyung Lee, Bharan Giridhar, Zhiyoong Foo, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, A 660pW Multi-

stage Temperature Compensated Timer for Ultra-low Power Wireless Sensor Node Synchronization,

IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), February 2011

12. Yoonmyung Lee, Mao-Ter Chen, Junsun Park, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, A 5.42nW/kb

Retention Power Logic-Compatible Embedded DRAM with 2T Dual-Vt Gain Cell for Low Power

Sensing Applications, IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuit Conference (A-SSCC), November 2010

13. Yoonmyung Lee, Gregory Chen, Scott Hanson, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Ultra -low Power

Circuit Techniques for a New Class of Sub-mm3 Sensor Nodes, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits

Conference (CICC), September 2010, invited paper

14. Daeyeon Kim, Yoonmyung Lee, Jin Cai, Leland Chang, Steven J. Koester, Dennis Sylvester, David

Blaauw, Low Power Circuit Design Based on Hetero -junction Tunneling Transistors (HETTs),

ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), August 2009

[Best Paper Award]

15. Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, Yu-Shiang Lin, Zhiyoong Foo, Daeyeon Kim, Yoonmyung Lee,

Nurrachman Liu, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Phoenix: an Ultra -Low Power Processor for Cubic

Millimeter Sensor Systems, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2009,

[DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest]

16. Yoonmyung Lee, Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, Standby Power

Reduction Techniques for Ultra-Low Power Processors, IEEE European Solid-State Circuits

Conference (ESSCIRC), September 2008

17. Mingoo Seok, Scott Hanson, Yu-Shiang Lin, Zhiyoong Foo, Daeyeon Kim, Yoonmyung Lee,

Nurrachman Liu, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, The Phoenix Processor: A 30pW Platform for

Sensor Applications, IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (SOVC), June 2008

Patents

Yoonmyung Lee, Michael Wiekowski, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, Logic Non-Volatile Memory

with MIM Capacitor and Stacking, Disclosure filed, UM file number 3999

Mingoo Seok, Yoonmyung Lee, Scott Hanson, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester, Low leakage memory

circuit, Disclosure filed, UM file number 3760

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