Minsung Kim

I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University, where I work with Prof. Lin Zhong at the Efficient Computing Lab. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University

I study quantum and emerging computing systems for next-generation wireless networks. The research aims to leverage quantum and quantum-inspired computation to expedite NextG baseband processing at base station systems, which would unlock unprecedented levels of wireless performance in communication networks.

I am a recipient of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (North America), the Princeton SEAS Award for Excellence, and the Siebel Scholars Award (Class of 2024 CS Siebel Scholar). My Ph.D. thesis has been nominated for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award & ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award (both in progress).

I am on the academic job market 2023-2024 :)

Curriculum Vitae (CV) | kimminsung823@gmail.com | Stamford, CT   

education

Princeton University, NJ            

M.A. & Ph.D. in Computer Science

2017 - 2023

Korea University, Seoul                     

B.E. in Electrical Engineering with Great Honor

2016

Stanford University, CA

Visiting Student, Electrical Engineering

2016

Professional experience

Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate (Nov. 2023 - Present), Efficient Computing Laboratory, New Haven, CT

Princeton University, PhD Student Researcher (Aug. 2017 - Oct. 2023), PAWS Laboratory, Princeton, NJ

Meta, PhD Software Engineer Intern (Summer. 2022), Systems and Infrastructure, Menlo Park, CA

InterDigital Communications, PhD Research Intern (Summer. 2021), R&I Department, Conshohocken, PA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – Ames Research Center (ARC) in Silicon Valley, CA

publications

(+: co-primary author)

Abhishek Kumar Singh, Ari Kapelyan, Minsung Kim, Davide Venturelli, Peter L. McMahon, and Kyle Jamieson, “Uplink MIMO Detection using Ising Machines: A Multi-Stage Ising Approach" 13 pages (under revision in TWC).

[arXiv preprint]

Minsung Kim, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Davide Venturelli, John Kaewell, and Kyle Jamieson, “X-ResQ: Reverse Annealing for Quantum MIMO Detection with Flexible Parallelism" 22 pages.

Minsung Kim, Annalise Stockley, Keith Briggs, and Kyle Jamieson, “Physics-Inspired Discrete-Phase Optimization for 3D Beamforming with PIN-Diode Extra-Large Antenna Arrays" 11 pages.

Minsung Kim,Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Computation for MIMO Communications in Wireless Networks

Princeton Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, NJ, USA, Nov. 2023.

Minsung Kim, and Kyle Jamieson, "Finer-Grained Decomposition for Parallel Quantum MIMO Processing

In IEEE ICASSP 2023, 5 pages, Special Session on Quantum Computing for Machine Learning and Signal Processing (Invited Paper), Oral.

[short paper, talk]

Minsung Kim, Davide Venturelli, John Kaewell, and Kyle Jamieson, "Warm-Started Quantum Sphere Decoding via Reverse Annealing for Massive IoT Connectivity

In ACM MobiCom 2022, 14 pages, acceptance rate: 17.8% (56/314).

[paper, talk]

Minsung Kim+, Srikar Kasi+, Aaron P. Lott, Davide Venturelli, John Kaewell, and Kyle Jamieson, “Heuristic Quantum Optimization for 6G Wireless Communications

In IEEE Network, 35(4) July/August 2021, 8 pages, IF: 10.693, (1 of 3 Invited Papers in 2021). 

Minsung Kim, Savaltore Mandra, Davide Venturelli, and Kyle Jamieson, “Physics-Inspired Heuristics for Soft MIMO Detection in 5G New Radio and Beyond

In ACM MobiCom 2021, 14 pages, acceptance rate: 16.8% (19/113, summer deadline). 

Minsung Kim, Davide Venturelli, and Kyle Jamieson, “Towards Hybrid Classical-Quantum Computation Structures in Wirelessly-Networked Systems

In ACM SIGCOMM HotNets 2020, 7 pages, acceptance rate: 24.8% (30/121)

 [paper, talk]

Minsung Kim, Davide Venturelli, and Kyle Jamieson, Leveraging Quantum Annealing for Large MIMO Processing in Centralized Radio Access Networks

In ACM SIGCOMM 2019, 15 pages, acceptance rate: 14.5% (32/221). 

honors and awards

Earlier Honors and Awards

talks

Conference Talks


Invited Talks


Special Lectures

service

Technical Program Committee

Artifact Evaluation Committee

Reviewer

other experience

Undergraduate Internship, Department of Wireless Engineering, Korea Telecom (KT)

Winter. 2015

Intelligence Agent & Translator (Eng), Foreign Affairs Division, National Police

2012 - 2014