Minsik Cho
Ph.D Candidate
The University of Texas at Austin
Recently, I moved into a new office!
Office : ACE Bldg 6.240
2004 Speedway,
Austin, TX 78712
Phone: 512-471-3816
Email : thyeros (at) cerc.utexas.edu
Minsik Cho received his B.S. in Department of Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University (Seoul, Republic of Korea) in 1999 and M.S. in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Wisconsin Madision (Madison, WI) in 2004, respectively. From 1999 to 2002, he developed multimedia conferencing softwares for MC Global.Ltd in Seoul, Republic of Korea as his military service. He then joined the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he is currently a Ph.D. student.
Since Minsik Cho joined Dr. David Z. Pan’s UT Design Automation research group in 2004, he has been working on VLSI design automation algorithms and optimizations. His main research is on manufacturability-driven and variation-tolerant designs. He has 10 papers published in top conferences (DAC, ICCAD, VTS, ASPDAC, ISPD) in addition to 6 papers in top journals (TCAD, TVLSI, TODAES, JPC), and one book chapter accepted/submitted since 2005.
Minsik Cho worked for Intel (Austin, TX) during summer 2005 and for IBM Research (Yorktown, NY) during summer 2006, where he researched on power modeling and manufacturability-aware router respectively. He is invited back to IBM Research (Yorktown, NY) again for summer 2007 to work on pioneering paralell physical synthesis and timing closure.
Minsik Cho has received Korean Information Technology Scholarship for outstanding academic performance in engineering from Korea Ministry of Information in 2002, Best Paper Award Nominations at DAC 2006 and ASPDAC 2006, and IBM Ph.D scholarship in recognition of academic excellence in 2007. His academic global router, BoxRouter 2.0 got the 2nd place in ISPD 2007 routing contest in industrial 3D category, but with the most number of designs completed among 17 teams from US and Asia including entries from industry, yielding ACM/SIGDA Awards and IEEE/CEDA Award. SRC will award SRC Inventor Recognition Award in 2008.
For further information, please refer to his Resume/CV. References are available upon request.
November, 2007.