Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Technology at the University of Washington Tacoma. His research has been rooted in advanced energy conversion from materials to devices. His current research interests are in developing skin-like wearable bioelectronics systems for human-machine interfaced health monitoring, based on Bio-Electro-Mechano-Engineering.

He received his B.S. and M.S. in School of Mechanical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea, followed by Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. Prior to joining UW Tacoma, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Alabama after completing his postdoctoral fellowship in Physics Department at the University of Houston.