Plenary Speech 연사소개

Would Memristive Electronics Drive Next Generation ICT Technologies?
Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang
KAIST
 

With nanotechnology and 3D integration potential, realization of smart and flexible systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) is becoming more tangible. On functionality side, 3D integration will bring up innovative and diverse system capabilities with sensory and high-capacity memory functions. On physical side, however, increasing power density and nanoscale device dimensions in integrated circuits impose serious barriers due to leakage currents, thermal issues, yield and reliability concerns. In this talk, we will discuss design science innovations that can help achieve desired goals beyond Moore’s Law, using non-volatile memristive electronics that can promote in harmony with CMOS a high-density vertical integration. Also discussed will be the potential of neuromorphic computing and self-reconfigurable SoCs based on emerging memristive devices and circuits.

Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang is the 15th President of KAIST and a Distinguished Chair Professor on leave of the University of California, Santa Cruz and Chancellor Emeritus of the University of California, Merced. From March 2007 to June 2011, he was Chancellor of the University of California, Merced and Professor of Engineering, and from January 2001 to February 2007 he was Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From August 1995 to December 2000, he served as Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Prior to UIUC he was Supervisor of High-End Microprocessor Design at AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill and also had served as a faculty member of Rutgers University. His recent awards include the Deok Myeong Engineering Award of Korea Academy of Science and Technology in 2010, Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame Induction in 2009, Chang-Lin Tien Leadership Award in 2007, IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg CAS Society Award in 2005. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975, M.S. degree from the State University of New York, Buffalo in 1972, and B.S. degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ in 1970, all in electrical engineering. He is a fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering, Korea and a member of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology.