PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jae-sun Seo

Jae-sun Seo is an electrical engineer whose research builds efficient hardware for machine learning and neuromorphic computing. He earned degrees at Seoul National University and the University of Michigan, then worked on cognitive-computing chips at IBM. At Arizona State University, he became an assistant professor, received an NSF CAREER Award, and coauthored the in-memory Vesti accelerator for deep neural networks. He joined Cornell Tech in 2023 and coauthored SPECTRA, an accelerator for speculative decoding in large language models, in June 2026. He is an associate professor in ECE and associate editor-in-chief of IEEE TCASAI, and was selected for KOCSEA's Mid-career Faculty Award in 2026.

Works
257
Citations
8,676
h-index
45
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2001–2010

    Electrical engineering degrees

    He earns a BS in electrical engineering at Seoul National University in 2001, then an MS in 2006 and a PhD in 2010 at the University of Michigan.

  2. 2010–2013

    Cognitive computing at IBM

    From 2010 to 2013, he works at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center on cognitive-computing chips under the DARPA SyNAPSE project and energy-efficient integrated circuits for high-performance processors.

  3. 2014

    Assistant professor at ASU

    He joins ASU's School of ECEE as an assistant professor in 2014.

  4. 2017

    An NSF CAREER Award

    He receives an NSF CAREER Award in 2017 for a project to design ultra-energy-efficient intelligent hardware with on-chip learning, attention and inference.

  5. 2019

    The Vesti accelerator

    He coauthors Vesti, a deep neural network accelerator for energy-constrained mobile, wearable and Internet of Things devices, in 2019. The processor combines in-memory-computing SRAM macros with digital circuits that manage dataflow.

  6. 2022–2023

    Research at Meta and Cornell

    He visits Meta Reality Labs from 2022 to 2023. In July 2023, he joins Cornell Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an associate professor.

  7. Since 2024

    TCASAI associate editor

    Since 2024, he serves as associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence (TCASAI).

  8. June 2026

    SPECTRA for LLM decoding

    In June 2026, he coauthors SPECTRA, an accelerator for speculative decoding in large language models.

  9. 2026

    A KOCSEA faculty award

    In October 2026, he is selected for the 2026 Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America Mid-career Faculty Award.

  10. As of October 2026

    Professor at Cornell Tech

    As of October 2026, he is an associate professor in Cornell Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on efficient machine-learning and neuromorphic hardware.

Career

  1. Since 2023Cornell UniversityAssociate professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  2. 2022–2023MetaVisiting researcher, Meta Reality Labs
  3. From 2020Arizona State UniversityAssociate Professor with tenure, School of ECEE
  4. From 2014Arizona State UniversityAssistant professor, School of ECEE
  5. 2011–2013IBM
  6. 2010–2013IBM Research

Education

  1. 2010University of MichiganPhD
  2. 2006University of MichiganMS
  3. 2001Seoul National UniversityBS in electrical engineering

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Checked career sources: seo.ece.cornell.edu.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Professor – Seo Research Group seo.ece.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. NSF CAREER Awards at the Fulton Schools engineering.asu.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. Vesti: An In-Memory Computing Processor for Deep Neural Networks Acceleration - Arizona State University asu.elsevierpure.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. Jae-Sun Seo | IEEE CASS ieee-cas.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. Publications – Seo Research Group seo.ece.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. Seo received mid-career faculty award | Cornell Duffield Engineering duffield.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.