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ABOUT US

Researchers building what they invented.

RiDM is an NUS spin-off founded by computer architecture researchers and a business lead from NUS. The founding team that did the underlying research remains directly involved in architecture, implementation and commercialization.

THE NAME

RiDM is a Dataflow Machine

A recursive acronym: the expansion contains the name itself. It is also the shortest description of the company — we research dataflow architecture, and we carry it into silicon.

ORIGIN

It started in a computer architecture lab.

RiDM began at the National University of Singapore, inside Dr. Trevor E. Carlson’s Computer Architecture Group. The founding team spent years there researching faster and more efficient computer architectures together, and the dynamic dataflow work that became DODA existed as published research and PCT filings long before it was a product.

In 2023 the team graduated from NUS GRIP, the university’s flagship deep-tech startup incubation programme, now National GRIP. RiDM carries that architecture from research toward silicon with the same people who designed it.

TEAM

The people behind RiDM.

Jinho Lee, PhD
CEO & Co-founder

Jinho Lee, PhD

NUS School of Computing
Research
General-purpose dynamic dataflow processing and reconfigurable computer architecture.
IP
  • WO2023/234867 — Reconfigurable Computing Architecture
  • WO2024/242626 A1 — Hierarchical Network Design for Dynamic Dataflow Style Architectures
  • WO2026/015086 A1 — Adaptive and Reconfigurable Dataflow Computing System and Method
Role
Company strategy, architecture direction and commercialization.
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SingaporeRiDM PTE. LTD.
Core IP development
CTO & Co-founderTingting XiangNUS PhD Candidate
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Research
AI accelerator design and optimization for sparse data environments.
Focus
AI workload analysis and hardware optimization.
Role
Leads the company’s technical direction across architecture and implementation, alongside AI accelerator research.
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CFO & Co-founderXiaoqing (Serena) Xie, MBANUS MBA
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Background
NUS MBA with responsibility for finance, strategy and operations.
Focus
Finance, fundraising, investor relations and corporate operations.
Role
Financial management and commercialization support.
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Co-founder · AdvisorTrevor E. Carlson, PhDAssociate Professor, NUS
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Research
Computer architecture and related systems research.
Background
NUS Associate Professor and academic advisor to the founding research team.
Role
Technical advisor and research continuity.
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KoreaRiDM Korea
Silicon implementation and business development
IC DesignerMoon JunghyunKyung Hee University
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Focus
Analog IC design.
Education
MS in Electrical Engineering, Kyung Hee University.
Tape-outs
Four tape-outs through Samsung 28nm MPW shuttles during her master’s.
RTL Design EngineerJung KyuhyunYonsei University
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Focus
RTL design, SoC integration and AI accelerator architecture.
Education
BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University (expected 2027).
Research
Co-developed Hierarchical Cross AllReduce, a Network-on-Chip collective communication scheme for odd-sized 2D meshes, with a 2.23–2.50× simulated AllReduce speedup.
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MILESTONES

From lab to company.

2023

Graduated NUS GRIP

Completed the National University of Singapore’s flagship deep-tech startup incubation programme, now National GRIP.

2026

Seed round

Secured seed funding from Qube Research & Technologies and The Invention Lab.

Qube Research & TechnologiesThe Invention Lab
2026

RiDM Korea · TIPS

Opened the RiDM Korea subsidiary and secured a TIPS R&D grant.