Joo Young Kim
About Joo Young Kim
Joo Young Kim is an Associate Professor at KAIST, specializing in low-level API design for hardware-software integration. He has extensive experience in hardware engineering and research, having held various positions at Microsoft and KAIST over the years.
Work at KAIST
Joo Young Kim currently serves as an Associate Professor at KAIST, a position he has held since 2023. He previously worked at KAIST as an Assistant Professor from 2019 to 2023. His academic contributions during this time focused on areas such as low-level API design for hardware-software integration and digital signal processing. Additionally, he has experience as a Post-doctoral Researcher and Research Assistant at KAIST, where he engaged in various research projects related to electrical engineering.
Experience at Microsoft
Joo Young Kim has extensive experience at Microsoft, where he held multiple roles over several years. He worked as a Hardware Engineering Leader for Azure Storage from 2017 to 2019. Prior to that, he served as a Senior Research Hardware Design Engineer from 2014 to 2017 and as a Research Hardware Design Engineer from 2012 to 2014. He also worked as a Visiting Researcher in 2010. His roles involved designing hardware systems and managing large-scale distributed systems.
Education and Expertise
Joo Young Kim earned his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) from 2007 to 2010. He also holds a Master of Science (MS) in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, completed from 2005 to 2007, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from 2001 to 2005. His expertise includes low-level API design, digital signal processing, data compression, and image/video coding.
Technical Skills and Specializations
Joo Young Kim possesses technical expertise in several areas, including computer architecture, microprocessor design, cloud computing, and network-on-chip systems. He has over 12 years of experience in designing System on Chips (SOCs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) using System Verilog and C/C++. His work emphasizes resiliency, failure handling, monitoring, and fault recovery in distributed systems.
Current Role as CEO at HyperAccel
In addition to his academic role, Joo Young Kim is the CEO of HyperAccel, a position he has held since 2023. This role allows him to leverage his extensive background in hardware design and engineering to drive innovation and development within the company, which is based in Seoul, South Korea.