Sung-Mo "Steve" Kang is an American electrical engineering scientist, professor, writer, inventor, entrepreneur and 15th president of KAIST.
18 Facts About Sung-Mo Kang
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Sung-Mo Kang was the first department head of foreign origin at the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz.
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Sung-Mo Kang teaches and has written extensively in the field of computer-aided design for electronic circuits and systems.
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Sung-Mo Kang holds 15 US patents and has won numerous awards for his ground breaking achievements in the field of electrical engineering.
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Sung-Mo Kang was president of the Silicon Valley Engineering Council and continues to serve on advisory committees for projects in the US and internationally.
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Sung-Mo Kang was a visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, the University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Munich, and a chaired visiting professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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Sung-Mo Kang joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an associate professor electrical and computer engineering in 1985, and was promoted to professor in 1990.
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From 1995 to 2000, Sung-Mo Kang served as the head of the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; he was the first department head of foreign origin in 110 years.
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Sung-Mo Kang was honored as the first Charles Marshall Senior University Scholar and directed several research organizations.
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From 2001 to 2007, Sung-Mo Kang served as dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz.
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In 2007, Sung-Mo Kang became the second chancellor of the University of California, Merced, succeeding Carol Tomlinson-Keasey.
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Sung-Mo Kang served on advisory committees for the National Youth Leadership Forum and the Silicon Valley Engineering, Manufacturing and Technology Alliance.
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Sung-Mo Kang has forged important partnerships with the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, the California Institute for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, and NASA's University Affiliated Research Center.
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Sung-Mo Kang attracted a $2 million National Science Foundation program for Developing Effective Engineering Pathways for community college students in the Silicon Valley region.
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Sung-Mo Kang has served on the advisory boards for UC's COSMOS and MESA programs.
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Sung-Mo Kang initiated and established several international programs at UC, including executive programs for managers from Korea and exchange programs with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Hokkaido Information University, KAIST, Yonsei University, Konkuk University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, and the Catholic University of Daegu.
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Sung-Mo Kang serves on the UC Merced Foundation as president, the Great Valley Center as chairman of the board, and the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium as an executive board member.
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Sung-Mo Kang has written or co-authored nine books and more than 500 technical papers in the field of electrical engineering.