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Kun Woo Cho

Assistant Professor
Fellow of the Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Computer Engineering

Kun Woo Cho is an assistant professor and Fellow of the Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Computer Engineering in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

She earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2024, her M.A. from Princeton University in 2021, and her B.S. from the University at Buffalo, SUNY in 2018. After graduating, she worked as a postdoctoral associate at Rice University for one year.

Dr. Cho's research spans wireless communication and radar systems, metamaterial-based analog computing, and AI-integrated systems, with an emphasis on mmWave hardware design, fabrication, and prototyping, embedded systems, signal processing, and full-stack system integration.

She is a recipient of the 2026 Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher, 2025 Siebel Scholarship, 2025 N2Women Rising Star, 2025 ACM MobiSys Rising Star, 2024 EECS Rising Star from MIT, 2023 Princeton SEAS Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award from ACM MobiHoc 2023.  

Research Interests
Wireless communication
Radar and imaging systems
Metamaterials
Analog computing
Multimodal learning