Dr. Youngseok Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on co-optimizing quantum hardware and algorithms to enable practical quantum advantage. His interests include quantum device characterization, noise-aware algorithm design, and scalable error mitigation techniques for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors.

Prior to joining Ohio State, Dr. Kim was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he led experimental efforts to benchmark and validate large-scale quantum workloads and contributed to multiple quantum error-correction and mitigation projects.

He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from POSTECH, South Korea, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Kim is a recipient of the IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award and multiple IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for his contributions to quantum computing research.