Jinsoo Kim (김진수)

Education

2015.9 – 2022.5: Ph.D., Engineering Sciences (Electrical Engineering), Harvard University 

2015.9 – 2022.5: M.S., Engineering Sciences (Electrical Engineering), Harvard University 

2010.9 – 2012.2: M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University 

2007.3 – 2010.8: B.S., Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University

2005.3 – 2007.2: Seoul Science High School 

Career

2024.3 – Present: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University 

2022.7 – 2024.1: PostDoc, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 

2012.3 – 2022.6: Research Scientist, Biomedical Research Institute, Center for Bionics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award, Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS) (2025)

• My research was highlighted in the following popular press (2024):
  Science Magazine, MedicalXpress, EurekAlert, La Repubblica, Scitech Daily (tens of additional news outlets internationally)

• My paper was reviewed in the following research briefing (2024):
  Wearable robot helps man with Parkinson’s disease to walk. Nature Medicine 30, 47–48 (2024). 
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02756-z

• Cover article Finalist in Nature Medicine (2024)

• Mogam Scholarship, Mogam Science Scholarship Foundation (2022–2023)

• My research was highlighted in the following popular press (2019):
  National Public Ratio (NPR), BBC – Science in Action, Financial Times (FT), Gizmodo, New Scientist, Scientific American, Boston Globe (hundreds of additional news outlets internationally)

• My paper was reviewed in the following perspective (2019):
  José L. Pons, Witnessing a wearables transition. Science 365, 636–637 (2019).
  https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw9407

• Cover article in Science (2019)

• My research was highlighted in the following popular press (2017):
  Science Daily, Gizmodo, Galileo, MSN, EureAlert

• Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award, Harvard Univ. (2016)

• SAMSUNG Scholarship, Samsung Scholarship Foundation (2015–2020)

• FULBRIGHT Graduate Study Award, Fulbright Korean-American Education Commission (2015)

• Excellent R&D Team Award, KIST (2014)

• Best Paper Award Finalist, International Symposium on Robotics (2013)

• Best Paper Award – Grand Prize, KIST R&D EXPO Junior Conference (2013)

• Distinguished Dissertation Award, Seoul National Univ. (2012)

• STX Scholarship, STX Scholarship Foundation (2011–2012)

• Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute Scholarship, Seoul National Univ. (2010–2011)

• Best Paper Award, Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (2010)

• Summa Cum Laude, Seoul National Univ. (2010)

• National Presidential Science Scholarship, President of South Korea (2007–2010)

• Samsung Electronics Special Prize, Samsung Electronics (2007)

• Samsung Electronics Scholarship, Samsung Electronics (2005–2007)