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Franklin Bien

Do you want Big Deal with your career?!  Come and join the “BICDL”.

Visit the website at http://bicdl.unist.ac.kr for more information.

Current Research activities at BICDL (pronounced as ‘big-deal!’) includes mixed-signal, Analog & RF integrated circuits (IC) design for consumer electronics & bio-medical appli- cations. We also have various projects for Wireless-Power Transfer technology includ- ing PMIC (Power Management IC) designs. Some of the recent projects were funded by Samsung Display, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Hyundai Motor Company, Hyundai Heavy Industry, DSME, KEPCO & many other government-funded projects. As of May 2023, we published 67 international journal papers, 68 international conference proceedings, 33 international patents, and 75 domestic patents. So far, 9 Ph.D. and 16

M.S Degree students graduated from BICDL, and currently 11 members are researching and working together at BICDL. Come join us for your bright future!

 

[Curriculum Vitae]

● 2009 ~ Present: Professor, UNIST
● 2007 ~ 2009: Senior Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineer at Staccato Communications, San Diego, CA, U.S.A
● 2003 ~ 2004: Senior IC Design Engineer, Products Engineering Group at Quellan, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
● 2000~2002: IC Design Engineer, Semiconductor Products Group, R&D in Agilent Technologies, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

[Education]

● Ph.D.: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., December 2006 Dissertation: “Reconfigurable Equalization for 10-Gb/s Serial Data Links in a 0.18-um CMOS Technology” (Advisor: Dr. Joy Laskar)
● M.S.: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., May 2000 (Advisor: Dr. Phillip E. Allen)
● B.S.: Electronics Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1997 Graduated with Honor

[Research  Keywords and Topics]

Analog IC Design, PMIC Design, Bio-medical sensor interface IC & system Design, Wireless Power Transfer technology and its circuits and system design

[Publications (selected)]

● IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (T-BCAS), “An On-/Off-time Sensing-based Load-Adaptive Mode Control of Triple Mode Buck Converter for Implantable Medical Devices,” Woojin Park, Gyeongho Namgoong, Eunho Choi, and Franklin Bien**, 23 Jan., 2023
● IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (T-CAS) I: Regular Papers, “Real-Time External Compensation System With Error Correction Algorithm for High-Resolution Mobile Displays,” Kyeongmin Park, Seunghun Oh, Dongjin Choi, Kyeonghan Shin, Haewan Cho, and Franklin Bien**, 30 Nov., 2022

[Awards/ Honors/ Memberships]

● Director, 5T-Space Research Center, 2022-2029
● Director, Samsung-UNIST Display Research Center, 2010-2026
● Director, ITRC Research Center, 2017-2022
● Best UNIST Prof. Award in Academic-Industry Coop, 2022
● Best Researcher Award by KIEES, 2020
● Best Research Award by The IEIE, 2018
● Outstanding Research Achievements Aw