Dr. YongTae Kim is an Assistant Professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. He completed Postdoctoral studies in the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and doctorate research at CMU. He was also a researcher in areas of dynamics, controls, and robotics at R&D Divisions of Hyundai-Kia Motors and Samsung Electronics for 6 years.
Dr. YongTae Kim received honors and awards as Distinguished Panel Speaker, Annual Beckman Scholars and Young Investigators Symposium in 2014, Best Presentation Award at American Control Conference in 2010, etc. He is acting as a member of many professional societies, Editorial board and reviewer of several journals. He authored multidisciplinary research articles in major journals including PNAS, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, JACS, PLoS ONE, Lab on a Chip, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, etc. He has filed over 20 patent applications worldwide (including 9 US patents), won Dowd-ICES Predoctoral Fellowship and Dean’s Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon, and consulted for biomedical companies.
Dr. YongTae Kim research interest focuses on Biomimetic microsystems (Organ-on-a-Chip), Multifunctional nanomaterials, Synthetic biomaterials, Tissue engineering, Microfluidics, Dynamics and controls, Mechatronics, and Robotics.
