Prof. Kyoungrok Cho

Kyoung-Rok Cho received a B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Kyoungpook National University, Taegu, Korea in 1977, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. From 1979 to 1986, he was with the TV research center of LG Electronics in Korea. He is currently a professor at the College of Electrical and Computer Eng. of Chungbuk National University, Korea. His research interests are in the field of high-speed and low-power circuit design, SoC and platform design for the communication system, and prospective CMOS image sensors. For 3 years from Dec. 2008, he was director of WCU (World Class University) program at Chungbuk National University. He is expanding his research area to Memristive systems and deep learning architectures. In 1999 and 2005, he spent 2 years at Oregon State University, USA as a visiting scholar. He was the recipient of the 2019 IEEE Very Large Scale Integration Systems Best Paper Award and is received Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea (IEEK) best paper award of the year at 2020.