Education

Aug. 1994     Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University

• • • • • Dissertation:  Maximum torque control of induction machines in field-weakening region 

Feb. 1989     M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University

•  Thesis:  Reduction of reactive power by current-controlled PWM converter 

Feb. 1987     B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University

Career

Mar. 1997 ~  Present:     Professor, Kangwon National University, Korea

Aug. 1994 ~ Feb. 1997: Senior Research Engineer, Daewoo Heavy Industries Ltd., Korea

Biography

Sanghoon Kim received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1987, 1989, and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, he worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Daewoo Heavy Industries Ltd., Korea, where he participated in propulsion system development for railway vehicles. In 1997, he joined Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea, where he is presently working as a Professor. He wrote the book Electric Motor Control: AC, DC, and BLDC Motors (Elsevier, 2017). His current research interests include power electronics, the high-performance drives of electric machines, and artificial intelligence (neural network) applications in motor drives and power electronics.