Advisors
Youm Huh, Ph.D.
- President and CEO of Silicon Mitus
Dr. Huh is the founder and CEO of Silicon Mitus, a fast growing startup company
specializing in power management chips.
Before Silicon Mitus, he was Executive Vice President at Hynix and later became CEO
of MagnaChip, a spinoff from Hynix Semiconductor.
Dr. Huh holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology and Stanford University, respectively.
Dong-Kwan (DK) Kim
- President and CEO of Daehong Technew Co.
Mr. Kim is a renowned industry leader in the semiconductor, LCD, solar cell, LED, and
clean energy industries. His company, Daehong Technew, supplies materials and
equipment for Semiconductor/LCD manufacturers and partners with global top tier
companies such as SunPower, Daifuku, ShinEtsuHandotai and ShinEtsu Chemical. Mr.
Kim is also a founder of Clean Factomation Inc., a joint venture with DAIFUKU group in
Japan. Clean Factomation provides numbers of AMHS (Automated Material Handling
System) for Semiconductor/LCD factories and is rapidly growing in AMHS. He set up
another joint venture, Matheson Gas Products Korea (MGPK), with American
Matheson-Tri Gas in 1997. MGPK produces specialty gas for Semiconductor/LCD
manufacturers.
Mr. Kim is also a well-known venture investor. He is a technology-focused venture
capitalist and made more than 10 investments in early and growth stage companies
in Korea and USA.
DK Kim earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the National Seoul University in
Seoul, Korea.
Yoshio Nishi, Ph.D.
- Professor at Stanford University
Dr. Nishi has been Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University since
2002. He also serves as Director of Research at The Center for Integrated Systems
and Director of Stanford Site at NNIN. With a Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from the
University of Tokyo, Dr. Nishi has worked at the senior level with Toshiba R&D for VLSI
memory technology and Si-SiO2 interface physics, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories ULSI
Research Lab, and Texas Instruments, Inc. R&D. He has contributed to more than 250
publications, co-authored/edited 11 books, and has been responsible for over 70
Japan and U.S. patents. A fellow of IEEE, a member of the Japan Society of Applied
Physics, and The Electrochemical Society, he has received numerous awards over the
past 15 years.
Hee-Chul Lee, Ph.D.
- Professor at KAIST
Dr. Lee received a B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea in 1987, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the Tokyo Institute
of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1986 and 1989, respectively.
Since 1989, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejun,
Korea, where he is currently a professor in KAIST. He has authored and co-authored
more than 100 published papers in journals and conference proceedings. His
research fields include infrared detectors, readout circuits, and polymer memories.
He is a program committee member of SPIE and an adviser of Nikkei Nanotechnology.
He was an associated editor of the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. He has
served as a director of many conferences.
Youm Huh, Ph.D.
- President and CEO of Silicon Mitus
Dr. Huh is the founder and CEO of Silicon Mitus, a fast growing startup company
specializing in power management chips.
Before Silicon Mitus, he was Executive Vice President at Hynix and later became CEO
of MagnaChip, a spinoff from Hynix Semiconductor.
Dr. Huh holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology and Stanford University, respectively.
Dong-Kwan (DK) Kim
- President and CEO of Daehong Technew Co.
Mr. Kim is a renowned industry leader in the semiconductor, LCD, solar cell, LED, and
clean energy industries. His company, Daehong Technew, supplies materials and
equipment for Semiconductor/LCD manufacturers and partners with global top tier
companies such as SunPower, Daifuku, ShinEtsuHandotai and ShinEtsu Chemical. Mr.
Kim is also a founder of Clean Factomation Inc., a joint venture with DAIFUKU group in
Japan. Clean Factomation provides numbers of AMHS (Automated Material Handling
System) for Semiconductor/LCD factories and is rapidly growing in AMHS. He set up
another joint venture, Matheson Gas Products Korea (MGPK), with American
Matheson-Tri Gas in 1997. MGPK produces specialty gas for Semiconductor/LCD
manufacturers.
Mr. Kim is also a well-known venture investor. He is a technology-focused venture
capitalist and made more than 10 investments in early and growth stage companies
in Korea and USA.
DK Kim earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the National Seoul University in
Seoul, Korea.
Yoshio Nishi, Ph.D.
- Professor at Stanford University
Dr. Nishi has been Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University since
2002. He also serves as Director of Research at The Center for Integrated Systems
and Director of Stanford Site at NNIN. With a Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from the
University of Tokyo, Dr. Nishi has worked at the senior level with Toshiba R&D for VLSI
memory technology and Si-SiO2 interface physics, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories ULSI
Research Lab, and Texas Instruments, Inc. R&D. He has contributed to more than 250
publications, co-authored/edited 11 books, and has been responsible for over 70
Japan and U.S. patents. A fellow of IEEE, a member of the Japan Society of Applied
Physics, and The Electrochemical Society, he has received numerous awards over the
past 15 years.
Hee-Chul Lee, Ph.D.
- Professor at KAIST
Dr. Lee received a B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea in 1987, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees from the Tokyo Institute
of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1986 and 1989, respectively.
Since 1989, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejun,
Korea, where he is currently a professor in KAIST. He has authored and co-authored
more than 100 published papers in journals and conference proceedings. His
research fields include infrared detectors, readout circuits, and polymer memories.
He is a program committee member of SPIE and an adviser of Nikkei Nanotechnology.
He was an associated editor of the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. He has
served as a director of many conferences.
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