Kim joined the Texas A&M mechanical engineering faculty as an assistant professor in 2000. His research interests are in precision mechatronics, nanoscale engineering and technology, real-time control systems design, novel actuators and sensors, and networked control systems.

Before coming to Texas A&M, Kim was a staff engineer for SatCon Technology Corp., a research assistant for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity and a research assistant at Seoul National University.

Kim is holder or co-holder of three full-utility U.S. patents. He has served as the principal investigator for several research programs sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and Carl Zeiss' Lithos GmbH. He has served as chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Nanoscale Control Technical Panel and is currently a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nanotechnology Council. Kim is also an honorary faculty member of Pi Tau Sigma.

Kim received a bachelor's and a master's degree in control engineering from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT.

As part of a 1970 gift from the Gulf Oil Foundation, the Thomas A. Dietz Career Development Professorships were founded in honor of a Texas A&M Class of 1931 mechanical engineering graduate. Career development professorships provide support for classroom work, research activities and professional development to junior faculty members who display exceptional potential.

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