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Hanseup (Steve) Kim, Micro & Nano Systems Integration

Hanseup Kim received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with Magna Cum Laude from Seoul National University in 1997, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2002 and 2006, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis contributed to scientific investigation on how to efficiently pump compressible gases in the micro domain and to innovative engineering of developing the first practical gas micropump.

In September 2011, he was named a 2011 Young Faculty Award from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Kim is among only 39 young faculty nationwide recognized by this year’s awards, which DARPA says are meant “identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions … who will focus a significant portion of their career on Department of Defense and national security issues.”

Between 2006 and 2009, he remained as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS) in the University of Michigan working on a micro gas chromatography system, energy harvesting devices, micro hydraulic actuators, and a micro cryogenic cooler. In 2009 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, where he is a USTAR Assistant Professor.

His research focuses on the development of integrated microsystems for health care research including microfluidics, biosensors, microrobots, and heterogeneous cell interaction. He is a Technical Program Committee member of the NanoUtah Conference and is listed in Marquis Who is Who in Science and Engineering (2011). He has actively served as a technical article reviewer for the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Sensors and Actuators A and B, Sensors Journa, Langmuir, Lab-on-Chip, and Measurement Science and Technology. He received the Rotary Club Ambassador Scholarship in 1999, the First Prize and the Best Paper Award with three other co-authors from the 38th International Design Automation Conference in 2001, the Best Paper Award with eight other co-authors from the International Conference on Commercialization of Micro and Nano Systems in 2008.

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Hanseup (Steve) Kim, Micro & Nano Systems Integration

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