Taehwan Kim


Berkeley Wireless Research Center, 2108 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
taehwan (at) eecs.berkeley.edu  |    CV (last update: 190503)

About

I am a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley in EECS working with Vladimir Stojanović in the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC).

I enjoy designing and analyzing complex systems, and also improving the way people design and analyze such systems. As a member of Integrated Systems Group, I am trying to tackle these problems in the context of integrated opto-electronics. I am currently working on the design of free-space optical systems such as LIDAR and communication links based on integrated electronics-photonics platform.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Advisor: Vladimir Stojanović)

Thesis: Realization of Integrated Coherent LiDAR

Completed Coursework:

  • Analog Integrated Circuits
  • Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits
  • Digital Integrated Circuits
  • Integrated Circuits for Communications
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Introduction to Optical Engineering

Aug. 2014 - Aug. 2019

Seoul National University

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
B.A. in Economics (Double major)

Mar. 2007 - Feb. 2014

Publications

  • T. Kim*, P. Bhargava*, C. V. Poulton*, J. Notaros, A. Yaacobi, E. Timurdogan, C. Baiocco, N. Fahrenkopf, S. Kruger, T. Ngai, Y. Timalsina, M. R. Watts, V. Stojanović, “A Single-Chip Optical Phased Array in a Wafer-Scale Silicon Photonics / CMOS 3D-Integration Platform," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2019. [Invited]

  • T. Kim*, S. Moon*, K. Xu, “Information-Rich Localization Microscopy through Machine Learning,” Nature Communications, 2019.

  • P. Bhargava*, T. Kim*, C. V. Poulton*, J. Notaros, A. Yaacobi, E. Timurdogan, C. Baiocco, N. Fahrenkopf, S. Kruger, T. Ngai, Y. Timalsina, M. R. Watts, V. Stojanović, “Fully Integrated Coherent LiDAR in 3D-Integrated Silicon Photonics/65nm CMOS,” IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2019.

  • T. Kim, P. Bhargava, C. V. Poulton, J. Notaros, A. Yaacobi, E. Timurdogan, C. Baiocco, N. Fahrenkopf, S. Kruger, T. Ngai, Y. Timalsina, M. R. Watts, V. Stojanović, “A Single-Chip Optical Phased Array in a 3D-Integrated Silicon Photonics/65nm CMOS Technology,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2019.

  • T. Kim, P. Bhargava, V. Stojanović, “Overcoming the Coherence Distance Barrier in Long-Range FMCW LIDAR,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2018.

  • T. Kim, P. Bhargava, V. Stojanović, “Optimal Spectral Estimation and System Trade-Off in Long-Distance Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave LIDAR,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018.

  • T. Kim, P. Bhargava, V. Stojanović, “A Model Predictive Control Equalization Transmitter for Asymmetric Interfaces in 28nm FDSOI,” IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC), 2016.

  • T. Kim, D.-G. Song, S. Youn, J. Park, H. Park, and J. Kim, “Verifying Start-Up Failures in Coupled Ring Oscillators in Presence of Variability Using Predictive Global Optimization,” IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2013.

  • J. Kim, J. Lee, D.-G. Song, T. Kim, K.-H. Kim, S. Jung, and S. Youn, “Discretization and Discrimination Methods for Design, Verification, and Testing of Analog/Mixed Signal Circuits,” Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2013.