Researchers

• Summary

Seong-Jin Kim received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea, in 2001. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2003 and 2008, respectively.

From 2008 to 2012, he was a research staff member at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Yongin, Korea, where he engaged in the development of CMOS imagers for the real-time acquisition of 3-D images. From 2012 to 2015, he worked for the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), A*STAR in Singapore, where he was involved in the design of analog-mixed signal circuits for various sensing systems. From 2015 to 2024, he worked for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea. In 2024, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sogang University in South Korea, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is a co-founder of SolidVue, a LiDAR startup company in South Korea. His current research interests include high-performance imaging devices, LiDAR systems, and biomedical interface circuits and systems.

Dr. Kim has been a member of the Technical Program Committee at the International Solid-State Circuit Conference from 2019 to 2024, and the Country Representative of South Korea for the ISSCC Far-East Region in 2021. 

• Education

Mar. 2003 – Feb. 2008   Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Mar. 2001 – Feb. 2003   MS in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Mar. 1997 – Feb. 2001   BS in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

• Professional Experience

Sep. 2024 – Present   Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea 

Nov. 2020 – Present   Chief Scientist at SolidVue Co.

Aug. 2022 – Jul. 2023   Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, US
Mar. 2020 – Aug. 2024   Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Jul. 2015 – Feb. 2020   Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
Jun. 2012 – Jun. 2015   Scientist II (Senior Research Staff) in Institute of Microelectronics (IME), A*STAR, Singapore
Jan. 2008 – May. 2012   Research Staff in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT, 삼성종합기술원)
Sep. 2006 – Nov. 2007   Pre-doctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, US