Kim, Nam Sung

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI, Ph. D. in Computer Science and Engineering (2004)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) - Taejon, Korea, M.S. in Electrical Engineering (2000)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) - Taejon, Korea, B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1997)

Fields of Interest

Reliable, Process-Variation Tolerant, and Low-Power Computer Architecture and VLSI Computing System Design
Nanoscale Fault-Tolerant Digital Circuits
Circuit-Microarchitecture Co-Design
Biomimetic Circuits

Selected Publications

1. Kriszitan Flautner, Nam Sung Kim, Steven Martin, David Blaauw, and Trevor Mudge, “Drowsy Caches: Simple Techniques for Reducing Leakage Power,” in Proc. of IEEE/ACM Int. Symp. on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pp. 148-157, May 2002. (cited by 583 as of Jan. 24, 2012).

2. Nam Sung Kim, Todd Austin, David Blaauw, Trevor Mudge, Kriszitan Flautner, Jie S. Hu, Mary Jane Irwin, Mahmut Kandemir, and Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, “Leakage Current — Moore’s Law Meets Static Power,” IEEE Computer, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 68-75, Dec. 2003 (cited by 416 as of Jan. 24, 2012).

3. Dan Ernst, Nam Sung Kim, et al., “Razor: A Low-Power Pipeline Based on Circuit-Level Timing Speculation,” in Proc. of IEEE/ACM Int. Symp. on Microarchitecture (MICRO), pp. 7-18, Dec. 2003. (cited by 444 as of Jan. 24, 2012).

4. Nam Sung Kim, Kriszitan Flautner, David Blaauw, and Trevor Mudge, “Circuit and Microarchitectural Techniques for Reducing Cache Leakage Power,” IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 167-184, Feb. 2004. (cited by 116 as of Jan. 24, 2012).

5. Nam Sung Kim, Kriszitan Flautner, David Blaauw, and Trevor Mudge, “Drowsy Instruction Caches — Reducing Leakage Power using Dynamic Voltage Scaling and Cache Sub-bank Prediction,” in Proc. of IEEE/ACM Int. Symp. on Microarchitecture (MICRO), pp. 219-230, Nov. 2002. (cited by 139 as of Jan. 24, 2012).

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

IEEE Senior Member
IBM Faculty Award, 2011
National Science Foundation - CAREER Award, 2010
Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Symp. on Microarchitecture, 2003
University of Michigan Distinguished Dissertation Award Nomination by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.
9th Samsung Electronics Human Tech Thesis Prize, 2003.
Intel Graduate Fellowship, 2002.
Design Automation Conference Student Design Contest Award, 2001.
3rd Samsung Electronics Human Tech Thesis Prize, 1997.

Current and Past Graduate Students

[Current]
Jungseob Lee (Ph.D. 2012)
Abhishek A Sinkar (Ph.D. 2012)
Daniel Chang (Ph.D. 2012)
Syed Giliani (Ph.D. 2012)
Hamid Reza Ghasemi (Ph.D. 2013)
Hao Wang (Ph.D. 2015)
Vijay Sathish (M.S. 2012)
[Past]
Shi-Ting Zhou (M.S. 2010, HP, Fort Collins CO)
Krishna Bharath (M.S. 2011, Intel, Hillsboro OR)

Date last modified: 24-Jan-2012
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