Dr. Sunwoong “Sunny” Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Before joining RIT, he worked as an Assistant Professor at University of Washington Bothell for four years. Prior to this role, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for two and a half years under the supervision of Prof. Rob A. Rutenbar. From 2016 to 2017, he worked at the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University (SNU), as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. HE received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from SNU, in 2016, 2012, and 2010, respectively, under the guidance of Prof. Hyuk-Jae Lee. His research interests include custom hardware accelerators that are used in image/video compression, machine learning, and cryptography.