Samuel H. Fuller Early Career Professor Recognition

Hun Seok Kim has been named the Samuel H. Fuller Early Career Professor of Engineering. A reception will immediately follow the recognition event.

The Samuel H. Fuller Early Career Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been established by Samuel Fuller to attract and
retain assistant or associate faculty members in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Fuller is committed to keeping Michigan ECE
at the forefront of computing research and education and inspire the next generation of innovators and leaders.

Bio

Hun-Seok Kim is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on system analysis, novel algorithms, and efficient VLSI architectures for low-power/high performance wireless communication, signal processing, computer vision, and machine learning systems. Prof. Kim’s work has consistently improved the efficiency, size, cost, and performance of wireless communication and signal processing systems via algorithm-hardware co-optimized designs. One of his early contributions was a flexible and fast-programmable system-on-chip that was designed to improve the efficiency and performance of wireless communication for a wide range of standard and proprietary protocols including 5G and WiFi. He also helped develop an ultra-energy-efficient simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) processor that enables the navigation of autonomous drones with highly accurate real-time results. In more recent projects,

Kim has investigated hardware-efficient AI algorithms and their VLSI chip implementations to enable the vision of Artificial Intelligence of Things with AI-enabled low-power chips. Kim contributed the computer vision system for iGYM, an augmented reality platform that allows children with some level of disability to play a physical sport equitably with other children. He helped develop a course where U-M students are able to contribute to improvements in the iGYM system. He is also involved in a project to track the migration path of monarch butterflies using tiny sensing computers known as the Michigan Micro Mote. This effort will help conservation biologists know where to focus their efforts for maximum benefit to the butterflies. Prof. Kim received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has 22 U.S. patents, and five best paper awards. He received a DARPA Young Faculty Award and NSF CAREER Award.