Joungho Kim

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Joungho Kim is the Chief Technology Officer at Alsemy, where he guides the company's long-term technology direction and R&D initiatives. An IEEE Fellow and Professor at KAIST, he is a leading expert in AI semiconductor and architecture design, High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), 3D integrated circuits and package design, and signal and power integrity.

Joungho Kim was appointed Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director of Alsemy on September 1, 2026, having first joined the Board as an Independent Director on March 26, 2024. He sets the company's technology direction, bringing three decades of research leadership in semiconductor design to Alsemy's AI-driven modeling and simulation platform.

He has served as a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST since 1996. Since 2024, he has been Head Professor of the KAIST Graduate School of System Architecture, Korea's first industry-contract graduate program in the semiconductor field, supported by Samsung Electronics, and since 2022 Head Professor of the Trans-Generational Collaborative Research Laboratory. He currently directs the NAVER-Intel-KAIST AI Joint Research Center (since 2024) and the KAIST-Samsung Electronics Industry-Academic Cooperation Center (since 2018).

His earlier leadership roles at KAIST include Vice President's Advisor for Industry-Academic Cooperation (2021-2023), Director of the Global Strategy Institute (2020-2021), Vice President for Research (2017-2019), and Department Chair of Electrical Engineering (2011-2012). He also served as Director of the SK Hynix 3D Semiconductor Research Center (2012-2016). He is an IEEE Fellow (2016) and served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility (2001-2016).