Dr. Taeyoung Kim (김태영;金泰永)

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Kim is a software architect with over 16 years of industrial experience and 12 years of research experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, specializing in AI, machine learning, and computer system optimization. As a Staff AI Software Architect at Intel, he has led innovations including the AI Super Builder for AIPC, AI-assisted overclocking, and system/software design and optimization. He holds 8 patents, has authored 35 research papers and a book, and has received 8 Divisional Recognition Awards in the past 4 years.

He has received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of California, Riverside, CA, USA in 2017. His dissertation was titled "System-level Electromigration-Induced Dynamic Reliability Management." During his Ph.D. study, he received a best research award at ACM Ph.D. Forum at Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2015 and a dissertation award from the University of California in 2017.

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Selected Publications

• Books

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  S. Tan, M. Tahoori, T. Kim, S. Wang, Z. Sun, and S. Kiamehr, "Long-Term Reliability of Nanometer VLSI Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Optimization," 1st ed. Springer International Publishing, 2019
  This book provides readers with a detailed reference regarding two of the most important long-term reliability and aging effects on nanometer integrated systems, electromigrations (EM) for interconnect and biased temperature instability (BTI) for CMOS devices. Dr. Kim has been focusing on machine learning-based dynamic resource management algorithm and this book includes his full doctoral research.

• Journals/Conferences

• T. Kim, S. X.-D. Tan, C. Cook, and Z. Sun, “Detection of counterfeited ICs via on-chip sensor and post-fabrication authentication policy,” Integration, the VLSI Journal, vol. 63, pp. 31–40, Sep. 2018.
• T. Kim, Z. Liu, and S. X.-D. Tan, “Dynamic reliability management based on resource-based EM modeling for multi-core microprocessors,” Microelectronics Journal, vol. 74, pp. 106-115, Apr. 2018.
• T. Kim, Z. Sun, H. Chen, H. Wang, S. X-D. Tan, “Energy and Lifetime Optimizations for Dark Silicon Manycore Microprocessor Considering both Hard and Soft Errors,” in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 2561-2574, Sept. 2017
• T. Kim, Z. Sun, C. Cook, J. Gaddipati, H. Wang, H. Chen, S. X.-D. Tan, “Dynamic Reliability Management for Near-Threshold Dark Silicon Processors”, Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Austin, TX, Nov. 2016
• T. Kim, Z. Sun, C. Cook, H. Zhao, R. Li, D.Wong, S. X.-D. Tan, “Cross-layer modeling and optimization for electromigration-induced reliability”, Proc. IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), Austin, TX, Jun. 2016
• T. Kim, X. Huang, H. Chen, V. Sukharev, S. X.-D. Tan, “Learning-based Dynamic Reliability Management for Dark Silicon Processor Considering EM Effects”, Proc. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Dresden, Germany, Mar. 2016

• Theses

• T. Kim, “System-Level Electromigration-Induced Dynamic Reliability Management,”, Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, 2017
• T. Kim, “Detection and Prevention of Forward Head Posture with Body Sensor Networks,” Master's Thesis, University of Virginia, 2012

• Complete list

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Patents

• Optimized Group-Wise Quantized Matmul on Neural Network Accelerator, Patent pending, 2025
• Optimized Rotary Positional Embedding on Neural Network Accelerator, Patent pending, 2025
• System and Methods for Personalized GenAI Assistants on AI PC, Patent pending, 2025
• Methods and Apparatus for Document Parsing for Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Patent pending, 2025
• System and Methods for Seamless End-to-End Enterprise GenAI Solution, Patent pending, 2025
• Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Autotuning of Retrieval Augmented Generation Parameters, Patent pending, 2025
• Methods and apparatus to perform cloud-based artificial intelligence overclocking, US20230418622A1, Dec. 28, 2023
• Methods and apparatus to adapt memory channel usage on a per-user basis, US20220188016A1, Jun. 16, 2022

Professional Activities

• [2023-Present], Forum Chair, Intel Data Science Center of Excellence
• [2022-Present], Forum Chair, Intel Weekly AI Forum
• [2017-Present] Associate Editor, Integration, the VLSI Journal, ELSEVIER
• [2023-Present], Technical Program Committee (TPC), AI/ML Track, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
• [2024] System Track, Technical Program Committee (TPC), ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
• [2024] Low-power, energy-efficient and thermal-aware design, Technical Program Committee (TPC), Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
• [2024] AI Track, Technical Program Committee (TPC), Design Automation Conference (DAC)
• [2023] System Track, Technical Program Committee (TPC), ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
• [2023] AI Track, Technical Program Committee (TPC), Design Automation Conference (DAC)
• [2022] AI Track, Technical Program Committee (TPC), Design Automation Conference (DAC)
• [2022] System Track, Technical Program Committee (TPC), ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
• [2022] Special Session Chair, Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
• [2021] System Track, Technical Program Committee (TPC), ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
• [2021-Present] Program Committee, Young Excellence (WYE) Program at IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, IEEE
• [2020-2022] Standard Committee, IEEE P1924.1 Standard Working Group, Energy Efficient Comm Hardware, IEEE
• [2017-2018] Program Committee, ACM Student Research Competition at International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
• [2019-Present] Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
• [2018-Present] Reviewer, Microelectronics Journal, ELSEVIER
• [2018-Present] Reviewer, Microelectronics Reliability Journal, ELSEVIER
• [2018-Present] Reviewer, ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
• [2017-Present] Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
• [2016-Present] Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
• [2015-Present] Reviewer, IEEE Transactions On Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (TVLSI)

Awards

• [2026/Q2] Agentic AI product launch with key AI PC customers, Divisional Recognition Award (DRA), PC Ecosystem Division, Intel
• [2026/Q1] Intel AI Super Builder Project Hybrid AI, Divisional Recognition Award (DRA), PC Ecosystem Division, Intel
• [2025/Q2] Intel AI Assistant Builder Project Release V1.2, Divisional Recognition Award (DRA), PC Ecosystem Division, Intel Corporation
• [2025/Q2] Building the 1st SOC thermal-aware floorplanner, Divisional Recognition Award (DRA), Intelligent Systems Research, Intel Corporation
• [2025/Q1] Intel AI Assistant Builder Project Release V1.1, Divisional Recognition Award (DRA), Client Ecosystem Division, Intel Corporation
• [2024/Q4] Intel AI Assistant Builder Project Release V1.0, Divisional Recognition Award (DRA), Client Ecosystem Division, Intel Corporation
• [2023/Q4] AI-assist Overclocking Product Release, Divisional Recognition Award (DRA), Client Ecosystem Division, Intel Corporation
• [2023/Q4] AI-assist Overclocking Product Release, Divisional Recognition Award (DRA), Platform Software Engineering Division, Intel Corporation
• Finalist at ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2016
• Travel Grant Award at ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2016
• Travel Grant Award at Young Faculty Workshop, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2016
• Dissertation Award, DYP Fellowship Award, University of California, Riverside, 2016
• Travel Grant Award at ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2015
• Best Research Award at ACM Ph.D. Forum, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2015
• Travel Grant Award at ACM Ph.D. Forum, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2015
• Travel Grant Award at ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2014
• Richard Newton Fellowship Award, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2014
• Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award, University of California, Riverside, 2013-2015
• In Recognition of Exceptional Presentation (2nd place), KSEA Virginia Regional Conference, 2013

Contact

• Email: drtaeyoungkim \{at} icloud \{dot} com
• Phone: \{us country code} \{dash} 650 \{dash} 690 \{dash} 0092
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Last updated on Jul 5, 2026 9:38 PM