Source: Fundamentals of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), 1st Edition

ISBN: 9781264257584
Authors: Eun Sok Kim Ph.D.

A. About the Authors

Eun Sok Kim received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1982, 1987, and
1990, respectively, all in electrical engineering.

He joined the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in Fall 1999, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering—Electrophysics. For nine years from July 2009, he chaired the Electrophysics division of
the department, and oversaw a net tenure-track-faculty growth of 2.5 (from 15.25 to 17.75) with 6.5 new tenure-track-faculty
hires. Over those nine years, US News' ranking raw score on USC EE's Graduate Program rose from 3.9 to 4.2 (out of 5.0 max).

From Spring 1991 to Fall 1999, he worked at the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a faculty member. Previously, he worked at
IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA, NCR Corp., San Diego, CA, and Xicor Inc., Milpitas, CA as a co-op student, design
engineer, and summer-student engineer, respectively.

Professor Kim is an expert in acoustic, piezoelectric, and vibration-energy-harvesting MEMS, having published about 250
refereed papers, 16 issued US patents, and 7 pending US patents in the field. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Physics (IOP). He serves as an editor for IEEE/ASME Journal of
Microelectromechanical Systems. He has been awarded a Research Initiation Award (1991–1993) and a Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) Award (1995–1999) by the National Science Foundation. He received the Outstanding EE Faculty of the
Year Award at the University of Hawaii in May 1996 as well as the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
2006 Best New Application Paper Award.

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