Sung-Mo Kang
Sung-Mo "Steve" Kang | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Korean |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices and circuits |
| Awards | The Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in 2009 ISQED Quality Award (2008) Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award (2007) IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award (2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering |
| Institutions | University of California, Merced |
| Academic advisors | Leon O. Chua |
Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang (pronounced “Kahng”) is an electrical engineering scientist, professor, author, inventor and entrepreneur[1]. Kang was appointed as the second chancellor of the University of California, Merced in 2007[2][3] From 1977 to 1985, Kang worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he led the development of the world’s first 32-bit microprocessor chips as a technical supervisor and designed satellite-based private communication networks as a member of technical staff. Dr. Kang holds 15 U.S. patents and has written or co-authored nine books and more than 350 technical papers, and won numerous awards. In addition to ground breaking achievements in his field of electrical engineering, as an entrepreneur, he co-founded a fabless mobile memory chip design company named ZTI, originally in Sunnyvale, now in San Jose.
Biography
Early years and education
Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. Kang is the first in his family to attend college. Kang’s grandfather, who have fought for Korean independence and experienced Japanese occupation, hoped him to immigrate to the U.S. and study electrical engineering to become a college professor. As a distinguished scholar and a leader in engineering education, Kang has gone beyond this dream.[4]
Kang received his B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1975, his M.S. from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972 and his Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1975. All his academic degrees are in electrical engineering.
Career
Having served most recently as dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, Kang is an experienced educator, researcher and administrator with valuable insights from one of the UC system’s newer campuses. In his six years as dean of engineering, he took a nascent program to significantly higher levels of achievement during its second phase of development.
Kang served as a department head (1995 – 2000) and a professor (1985 – 2000) in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, he was honored as the first Charles Marshall Senior University Scholar and directed several research organizations. He was a visiting professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale 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 (KAIST). He has also taught at Rutgers University.
While at UC Santa Cruz, Kang chaired the UC Santa Cruz Chancellor’s Education Partnership Advisory Committee. He also served on advisory committees for the National Youth Leadership Forum and the Silicon Valley Engineering, Manufacturing and Technology Alliance.
Kang has forged important partnerships with the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), the California Institute for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), and NASA's University Affiliated Research Center.
He attracted a $2 million National Science Foundation program for Developing Effective Engineering Pathways (DEEP) for community college students in the Silicon Valley region. He has also served on the advisory boards for UC’s COSMOS and MESA programs.
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 (EPFL), Hokkaido Information University, KAIST, Yonsei University, Konkuk University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, and the Catholic University of Daegu.
Member
He 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. Kang is a Foreign Member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, a fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, and is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Technology, Who's Who in Engineering and Who's Who in Midwest.
Awards
- 1996 IEEE Technical Field Award for Graduate Teaching
- 1997 Alexander von Humboldt Award for Senior US Scientists
- 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal
- 2001 Outstanding Alumnus Award in Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley
- 2003 Chancellor's Stellar Service Award
- 2005 IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award
- 2007 Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builder Award from Morehouse College
- 2007 Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award
- 2008 Distinguished Yonsei Alumnus Award
- 2008 ISQED Quality Award
- 2008 The Korean-American Leadership Award
- 2009 The Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame