• Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Suin Yi

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University – 2017
  • M.S., Energy Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – 2012
  • B.S., Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University – 2010

Research Interests

    • Brain-like computing algorithms and computer architectures 
    • Memristor-based Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) for Non-deterministic Polynomial-time hard combinatorial optimizations 
    • Neuromorphic devices' compact modeling 
    • Nanoscale heat & charge transport in thermoelectric devices 

Awards & Honors

  • Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 2016
  • Texas A&M Energy Institute Research Workshop 2015 Poster Award, 2015

Selected Publications

  • S. Yi, J. Kendall, R. S. Williams, and S. Kumar, “Activity-difference Training of Deep Neural Networks using Memristor crossbars," Nature Electronics, 6, 1, 45-51, January 2023
  • S. Yi, S. P. Rath, T. Venkatesan, S. Goswami, R. S. Williams, and S. Goswami. “Energy and Space Efficient 32-bit Parallel Adder using Molecular Memristors," Advanced Materials, 35, 37, 2206218, 1-11, September 2023
  • S. Yi, S. Kumar, and R. S. Williams, “Improved Hopfield Network Optimization using Manufacturable Three-terminal Electronic Synapses," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, 68, 12, 4970-4978, December 2021
  • S. Yi, A. A. Talin, M. J. Marinella, and R. S. Williams. “Physical Compact Model for Three-Terminal SONOS Synaptic Circuit Element," Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4, 9, 2200070, 1-10, September 2022
  • S. Yi and C. Yu. “Variation of Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merits for Mg2SixSn1-x Solid Solutions," Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 54, 5, 055504, 1-10, February 2021