Youngsu Kwon
Silicon Architect Lead at Google
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolYoungsu Kwon is a Silicon Architect Lead at Google and a seasoned processor semiconductor architect with over two decades of experience designing AI processors, NPUs, and low-power digital architectures. He built and led ETRI’s foundational AI Processor research group for 18 years, spearheading the national "Artificial Brain" project and establishing an AI Semiconductor National Laboratory that integrated processor architecture, NN compilers, and PIM heterogeneous systems. His career blends deep academic training (Ph.D. from KAIST and a postdoc at MIT on 3D FPGAs) with hands-on system implementation, national-scale program leadership, and algorithmic optimizations for chip and CAD tools. A decorated contributor to Korea’s semiconductor advancement, he has received multiple presidential and ministry-level awards for innovation and industry impact. Now based in Seoul, he applies this rare combination of research rigor and large-program execution to silicon architecture at Google.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Associate, Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Daegu Science High SchoolPh.D., Ph.D. at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)
English, KoreanProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PinocchioYS/SuperRay
Mar 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
PinocchioYS/iln
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 month
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