Sungwon Chung

SungWon Chung is the Head of Brain Interfaces System-on-Chip at Neuralink, where he is leading a chip design team to develop high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interfaces. For ten years prior to the present appointment, he had held R&D positions in Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories as Consultant, KITEL Company as Member of Technical Staff, University of Southern California as Research Associate, MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories as Postdoctoral Associate, and Intersil Corporation as Mixed-Signal Design Engineer Intern.

His interests are in the design and implementation of integrated circuits and nanodevices, which exploit diverse wave-matter interactions, into an analog, mixed-signal, microwave, and optical system with innovative architectures and signal processing techniques. Dr. Chung has co-authored over 50 publications. His work on energy-efficient wireless transmitters was commercialized by Eta Devices (a start-up acquired by Nokia) and recognized with 2015 Technology Pioneers Award by World Economic Forum in Switzerland. He was nominated for the 2011 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Best Student Paper Award, and he is a co-recipient of the 2011 IEEE Radio and Wireless Week Best Student Paper. He was awarded the Bell Labs Prize for his work on large-scale nanophotonic phased arrays for 3D imaging, sensing, and communication, which was demonstrated in the 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).

Dr. Chung served as a Guest Editor of IEEE Microwave Magazine and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I – Regular Papers. He also served on the Technical Program Committees of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), and OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), the Technical Paper Review Committee of IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), and the MTT-S Technical Coordinating Committee on Digital Signal Processing (MTT-9/DSPX). He is a Member of OSA and a Senior Member of IEEE.